The price to the fans for 14-2: a 6.45% ticket price increase

[Mista T]

Ravens letter to PSL owners today:

Your enthusiastic M&T Bank Stadium support gave us a huge homefield advantage, and your financial investment through your season ticket commitment serves as a foundation to our structure. WE THANK YOU!

And, we appreciate the feedback you gave to league-wide evaluations conducted by the NFL. Our home-game experience was ranked second in the league with an 8.6 overall grade (10-point system). You selected our game entertainment (8.8) and food/beverage (7.9) as second best, and you graded our gameday staff as No. 1 in the league with an 8.9 mark! We will continue to work hard to make your experience at M&T Bank Stadium one of the best in the NFL.

Ticket prices will increase for the first time in three seasons and only the second time in seven years. We are committed to keep the same prices for 2021. Our prices are increasing a blended 6.45% (some zones have a higher increase, some have lower additions and one remained the same).

Taking all this into account (competitive team, escalators, scoreboards etc): 2.15% per year is not too bad. We'll all just suck it up again!

Hopefully, before the next price increase in 2024, they'll improve food offerings (Impossible Burgers, perhaps!), parking, tailgating amenities how about sinks and flush toilets?) and post-game egress.

[jhoff66]

Ravens letter to PSL owners today:



Taking all this into account (competitive team, escalators, scoreboards etc): 2.15% per year is not too bad. We'll all just suck it up again!

Hopefully, before the next price increase in 2024, they'll improve food offerings (Impossible Burgers, perhaps!), parking, tailgating amenities how about sinks and flush toilets?) and post-game egress.

Here comes the cry babies

[Ravenswintitle]

for perspective, the Browns just raised their ticket prices...

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/b...g-2019-season/

[BcRaven]

for perspective, the Browns just raised their ticket prices...

Rwt, well they didn't go 1 - 15, or even 0 - 16 for that matter, so they must have "improved." ... Bc

[cvilleRaven]

Ravens letter to PSL owners today:



Taking all this into account (competitive team, escalators, scoreboards etc): 2.15% per year is not too bad. We'll all just suck it up again!

Hopefully, before the next price increase in 2024, they'll improve food offerings (Impossible Burgers, perhaps!), parking, tailgating amenities how about sinks and flush toilets?) and post-game egress.

The only way parking is going to improve is for the Orioles and Ravens to split the bill for garages (which will also make parking orders of magnitude worse while they are under construction). That, put simply, will not happen. Without such facilities, permanent bathrooms (can you imagine the nightmare of installing new plumbing under the existing parking lots?) won't be happening either.

Getting out of the stadium is a different matter entirely. The goal should be to get vehicles away from the stadium as quickly as possible - prioritize routes that hit 395 over Russell Street. Maybe block access to the 395 ramp from Russell Street for the first 45(?) minutes after the game (or until 80% of the lots are cleared) and direct all possible traffic this way. The reality - there are up to 70,000 people in approximately 3 million square feet (including all official stadium lots) - about .107 square miles. That's 11% of the city population crammed into .11% of the total footprint of the city (ie, extremely dense) - traffic is always going to be a problem. The math would only look worse if you bring surrounding counties into the equation. The only real solution to that is to build a new stadium outside of Baltimore City, but also has direct access to at least 2 major highways. I'm not sure there is anywhere else inside of Baltimore City or County that makes this any better.

[Ortizer]

Ravens letter to PSL owners today:



Taking all this into account (competitive team, escalators, scoreboards etc): 2.15% per year is not too bad. We'll all just suck it up again!

Hopefully, before the next price increase in 2024, they'll improve food offerings (Impossible Burgers, perhaps!), parking, tailgating amenities how about sinks and flush toilets?) and post-game egress.

How about a super bowl?

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[Mista T]

Thanks, cvilleRaven: I like having "civil" debates!

The only way parking is going to improve is for the Orioles and Ravens to split the bill for garages (which will also make parking orders of magnitude worse while they are under construction). That, put simply, will not happen. Without such facilities, permanent bathrooms (can you imagine the nightmare of installing new plumbing under the existing parking lots?) won't be happening either.

Two rebuttals:

(1). Lot H had trailer restroom facilities - flush toilets & sinks with soap dispensers - for 1/2 dozen or so seasons when the stadium opened in 1998. These inexplicably disappeared by mid-00's.... bring them back!

(2) The Jaguars have running water restroom facilities. True that it seldom freezes there, but that shouldn't be a show-stopper in Baltimore. I would posit that running sewer lines through Lots B/C and G/H would be significantly cheaper than the investment into the Stadium's electronic doo-dads. The Ravens priorities are wrong!

Getting out of the stadium is a different matter entirely. The goal should be to get vehicles away from the stadium as quickly as possible - prioritize routes that hit 395 over Russell Street. Maybe block access to the 395 ramp from Russell Street for the first 45(?) minutes after the game (or until 80% of the lots are cleared) and direct all possible traffic this way.

There are many more inexpensive improvements that, all told, could knock 5 - 10 minutes off getting home. After Colts games, I could get out of the parking lots surrounding Memorial Stadium and onto the Jones Falls Expressway is about 10 minutes -- far less than it typically takes getting from Lots B/C or G/H onto the I-95/395/295 complex despite the new stadiums closer proximity to the I-95/395/295 freeway complex.

The major difference to Memorial Stadium traffic was that the inbound lanes of 33rd Street were reversed postgame into outbound lanes, and well-trained city cops provided traffic direction at each intersection which hustled outbound stadium traffic along while deterring jaywalkers (with fines). Contrasted with no post-game lane reversals on Hanover or Russell streets for Ravens games (which could double stadium egress capacity headed to the freeways), plus indifferent intersection cops who frequently stop traffic for drunken jaywalkers.

[Greg]

The Baltimore City PD is completely clueless about traffic direction after games.

For example, Wicomico dumps to the bottom of 295 if you go left and toward 95 (via Washington) if you go right at the end. They let that red light handle the traffic while they stand there. Ignore the light for 5-minute stretches and also man the stops at the intersections on Wicomico to just move the traffic and you could move vehicles out of the area much faster.

[Ortizer]

The only way parking is going to improve is for the Orioles and Ravens to split the bill for garages (which will also make parking orders of magnitude worse while they are under construction). That, put simply, will not happen. Without such facilities, permanent bathrooms (can you imagine the nightmare of installing new plumbing under the existing parking lots?) won't be happening either.

Getting out of the stadium is a different matter entirely. The goal should be to get vehicles away from the stadium as quickly as possible - prioritize routes that hit 395 over Russell Street. Maybe block access to the 395 ramp from Russell Street for the first 45(?) minutes after the game (or until 80% of the lots are cleared) and direct all possible traffic this way. The reality - there are up to 70,000 people in approximately 3 million square feet (including all official stadium lots) - about .107 square miles. That's 11% of the city population crammed into .11% of the total footprint of the city (ie, extremely dense) - traffic is always going to be a problem. The math would only look worse if you bring surrounding counties into the equation. The only real solution to that is to build a new stadium outside of Baltimore City, but also has direct access to at least 2 major highways. I'm not sure there is anywhere else inside of Baltimore City or County that makes this any better.

Time for the west aa county stadium!

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[WrongBaldy]

Someone needs to google inflation lmao.
Just put your psl and ticket totals into qqq and you’re gonna be ahead of the curve

[Brtnder81]

Ravens letter to PSL owners today:



Taking all this into account (competitive team, escalators, scoreboards etc): 2.15% per year is not too bad. We'll all just suck it up again!

Hopefully, before the next price increase in 2024, they'll improve food offerings (Impossible Burgers, perhaps!), parking, tailgating amenities how about sinks and flush toilets?) and post-game egress.

I'm curious what you find wrong with the food? It's a stadium in a cold weather climate that has 10 games per season. You cant really expect much more than what they offer. The offerings can only be so fresh because they have 1-3 games per month, and product that isnt used has to be frozen. With it being cold, food gets cold fast, so you are losing quality there that can't be helped. They have added Pappas, and Shake shack in the last few seasons to give more options. What are you looking for from stadium food?

[TheBLTRaven]

They should of build the Ravens Orioles and a horse track where Bethlehem steel was. Right on the water. No crime to worry about and hop right on 695.