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New Tailgate Policy

JWarren14

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New Policy: The Houston Texans announced a new revision to their gameday ticket policy. Effective immediately the Houston Texans will require all fans who wish to enter Reliant Stadium or its parking lots to possess a gameday ticket.
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Not sure how they will check everyone, but FYI.
 
whoah! I know quit a few folks who watch the games in the parking lot. This news is going to jolt a lot of people in a couple of weeks!

What happens if you are meeting someone at the game who has your ticket??
 
JWarren14 said:
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Not sure how they will check everyone, but FYI.
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Looks like they'll start kicking stragglers out DURING the game.

Not a fan of this policy. I will absolutely come in EARLY for the Giants game in case they start demanding we who our tickets when so enter. I'll bank om delays while folks rummage through their glove boxes looking for their tickets.
 
Wow...I know someone who tailgates in the Orange lot and hardly ever actually goes into the game...

He's been doing it for a while...I know he's going to be a bit upset...
 
Say 2 groups of friends from different areas of town both have Orange passes. Say Group A has two extra seats for people coming with Group B. They plan on giving them the tickets when they meet up in the parking lot.

How would that be handled?
 
Lauren, I honestly don't think the front office really cares about specific scenarios.
 
Lauren said:
Say 2 groups of friends from different areas of town both have Orange passes. Say Group A has two extra seats for people coming with Group B. They plan on giving them the tickets when they meet up in the parking lot.

How would that be handled?
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Basically, they'd be JB'ed and told to watch the game from their hotel room..
 
I honestly don't see how they can enforce it though, at least not for people who would park in the cash lot or somewhere else and walk over to meet friends at a tailgate.
 
I think the issue is people that don't have a parking pass OR a ticket to the game. Strangers are just wandering over to the tailgates and joining in the parties, with neither tickets to the game OR a parking pass. I would imagine that if you have a parking pass, it should suffice as a "team-issued credential". I don't think they're going to be stopping people with parking passes from entering the parking lot.
 
Not sure of the special circumstances, I don't think they will question people who are behaving, but if people are being asses and they don't have a game ticket PEACE.

Also it says on the link that season ticket holders can buy "guest" tickets for $10 that will allow people into the parking lots.
 
Looks like this is because of people staying too long after the games.
Season ticket holders will be able to buy "tailgate passes" for $10 each.


Here's the e-mail I received - I bolded the important parts:

Dear Season Ticket Holder,

Thank you for your support. You have helped us to create one of the finest sporting experiences in the world, and we are working hard to maintain this standard of excellence for you.

This past weekend we had our largest crowd in franchise history. While we were disappointed with how the game turned out, we are proud of the tremendous crowd support and are appreciative of our great fans like you that made it happen. We also had some significant challenges last Sunday, including traffic, parking and fan behavior in our parking areas. These issues were due primarily to the large number of non-ticketed individuals in our stadium parking lots before, during and, especially, after the game.
Non-ticketed tailgating at Reliant Park on Texans game days has been a growing trend that has become increasingly problematic for us and we have heard complaints from many of our season ticket holders regarding the impact this is having on the quality of their game day experience. It has reached a point that we do not believe we can offer the world-class game day atmosphere you have come to expect from us if we allow this to continue. The tailgating environment we provide has been recognized as the best in the NFL and was established for the enjoyment of you and our other ticketed patrons. So, in order to ensure a great game day experience for you, we will implement the following policy:

All visitors to Reliant Park MUST have a game ticket or other team-issued credential to be on the Reliant Park grounds on Houston Texans home game days.
Please understand that this policy was created after careful study and is a necessary step in order for us to continue to provide you with the fun, festive and friendly environment you have come to expect from us in our parking lots on game day. For your convenience, we will offer a very limited number of tailgate access passes exclusively for season ticket holders at a cost of $10 per pass.
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Something like this is going to open a huge can of worms! What about the people picking up tickets at the will call window?

Not to mention the people that meet people at the game to get their tickets.
 
DerekLee1 said:
I think the issue is people that don't have a parking pass OR a ticket to the game. Strangers are just wandering over to the tailgates and joining in the parties, with neither tickets to the game OR a parking pass. I would imagine that if you have a parking pass, it should suffice as a "team-issued credential". I don't think they're going to be stopping people with parking passes from entering the parking lot.
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I agree. I believe they will enforce this with the "walk-ins" - not with the vehicles with parking passes.

I saw tons of people hauling coolers into the Blue lot as we were trying to get into the stadium. It was 11am. Those people were just there for tailgating and were probably not going into the game. It was a mess trying to get past the people coming in to the lot.
 
I don't think it is going to be very strictly enforced unless things get out of hand like this past Sunday. Things should be pretty status quo IMO unless it becomes apparent that there are way too many people roaming around.

Who knows, we will just have to wait and see how it turns out the next couple of games.
 
JB said:
Something like this is going to open a huge can of worms! What about the people picking up tickets at the will call window?

Not to mention the people that meet people at the game to get their tickets.
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With will call I'd imagine you could show a receipt or something of the like and they will let you through. Season ticket holders can send tickets via e-mail, so they won't have sympathy on meeting someone. Might have to pass them through the fence.
 
JWarren14 said:
Not sure of the special circumstances, I don't think they will question people who are behaving, but if people are being asses and they don't have a game ticket PEACE.
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Good point. It might just be an official policy that is in place to give them the right to kick people out for whatever reason(s).

Of course, they reserve that right if you are misbehaving and have a ticket, so I'm not sure what they plan to do.

Like JB said, will call tickets and people meeting up for tickets are two scenarios that I've encountered and would be a huge problem if the plan to inspect a lot of people.
 
I wonder how this affects the corporate setups? I mean I'm sure they'll (corporate setups) will still be able to come in because lets face it, money talks, but how many people will be actually visiting these corporate spots now with this new policy?
 
JWarren14 said:
I don't think it is going to be very strictly enforced unless things get out of hand like this past Sunday. Things should be pretty status quo IMO unless it becomes apparent that there are way too many people roaming around.

Who knows, we will just have to wait and see how it turns out the next couple of games.
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Money is now involved. I bet it'll be strictly enforced at ten bucks a person.

Find more ways to anal-ize us but won't spend on high dollar temporary solutions to winning? Lol.

Cowgirl fans are not to blame. Money is.
 
Security will be targeting people who appear to be in the lot illegally and ask for proper ID much like they do in Arizona.
 
You can only buy 4 "passes" PER ACCOUNT We have four season tickets under two different accounts, so, we can buy 8 passes per game. That's an extra $800.00 a year for our friends to come out and tailgate with us.

Oh, and did you notice the email was sent out AFTER 5:00 pm? I may just drive to Reliant in the morning....
 
This is the first time I've seen more people viewing the "tailgate" rather than the "texans talk" section
 
Don't try to buy passes -- this is what you get from the Texans Ticketmaster site

"An unusually large number of visitors are accessing our site. You've been placed in line and will be granted access to the site in the order in which you arrived. "
 
I suggest every ticket holder who gets the email respond with their opinions (and post to their Facebook page). I personally did not see any problems with the crowd, fights, etc. The only issues were not enough toilets and not enough parking personnel. Those issues are both the fault of the Texans.

We all knew that it would be super busy. We brought extra food, extra beer, got there early etc. Are the Texans really going to play stupid and say they were overwhelmed? Give me a break.

Had the Texans properly prepared for the additional onslaught of people, most of the problems would never have occurred. The only angry, upset people I saw were in line for the toilets or frustrated by the overwhelmed Reliant parking personnel.

The fact that Houstonians can come root for their team before and after the game adds to the excitement of game day. Not every one of my friends can afford nearly $100 for a football game (or even more). They can, however, bring a six-pack and watch over my NFL Sunday Ticket setup in the parking lot while I'm in the game. If it's an extra $10 for them, they will just stay home in the A/C.

I responded with this email:

This is a stupid idea. You are going to ruin the tailgate environment over one game? We have several people in our group that come every single week that don't necessarily go into the games.

There haven't been any problems until arguably the biggest game in Texans history. We won't have another game this big until we have a home payoff game or the Cowboys return in 8 or so years. I didn't even notice any problems with the crowd our extra fans.

In fact, the only problems I saw were caused by your lack of preparation for this crowd. There were not nearly enough portable toilets or parking personnel to handle the extra crowd. Is the extra $10 going to bring in more toilets or parkin attendants or will it simply go to the bottom line?

How do you expect to enforce this idiotic policy? Are we going to have to show our tickets when we drive in? That will just make the traffic that much worse. What about people that meet at the gate or in the parking lots to pick up tickets from friends?

I suppose you'll just have more people walk around checking tickets as well as parking passes. They will have the same problems I mentioned above plus people will just ignore them. If somebody walks up to me asking for a ticket I will just tell them my body has them but he's in the john. Then I'll walk off. Good luck.

This is obviously a stupid, knee-jerk reaction to complaints from a minority of season ticket holders. In addition to being completely unenforceable, it's going to anger your base. In a down economy that is double-dumb.

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Stemp said:
Money grab by the Texans. Very disappointing.
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If it means charging per head now...I'm actually for it. After seeing that video of that guy getting sucker punched out cold, and walking by the same lame ass ghetto tents with the DJ there around the lots with "apple bottom jeans and boots with da fur" along with "street latina shaking her jelly"...why not?
 
No way am I buying passes. This policy is completely unenforceable. They would have to fence up the parking lot. Otherwise, just walk away when they ask for your pass. Do you think anybody's really going to chase you down? If your guarding the tailgate site for people, demand a cop.

blogkimmy said:
Don't try to buy passes -- this is what you get from the Texans Ticketmaster site

"An unusually large number of visitors are accessing our site. You've been placed in line and will be granted access to the site in the order in which you arrived. "
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woollybully said:
<-------snip--->for their team before and after the game adds to the excitement of game day. Not every one of my friends can afford nearly $100 for a football game (or even more). They can, however, bring a six-pack and watch over my NFL Sunday Ticket setup in the parking lot while I'm in the game. If it's an extra $10 for them, they will just stay home in the A/C.<----snip----->
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I don't understand your logic here. $10 will keep them at home? I have no problem with them charging $10 for the people that do not have tickets to the game. As long as those resources are used to improve the tailgating. (add more toilets, personell, etc)
 
Because you don't have to walk by them. Maybe they don't like the Texans theme song that blares from our speakers every 5th song.

It's actually nice for my friends who can't afford games to come to tailgating.

For the guy that got punched out...there should be consequences for the attacker. If he's on video they've got the evidence to prosecute.

MannyFresh said:
If it means charging per head now...I'm actually for it. After seeing that video of that guy getting sucker punched out cold, and walking by the same lame ass ghetto tents with the DJ there around the lots with "apple bottom jeans and boots with da fur" along with "street latina shaking her jelly"...why not?
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woollybully said:
Because you don't have to walk by them. Maybe they don't like the Texans theme song that blares from our speakers every 5th song.

It's actually nice for my friends who can't afford games to come to tailgating.

For the guy that got punched out...there should be consequences for the attacker. If he's on video they've got the evidence to prosecute.
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Not sure if it's the same one, but there's a setup right along the walkway to Budwesier Plaza that blares alot of music. No way to avoid it.
 
This is the same problem we have with street festivals, etc. There should be no extra charge for tailgating. We are already paying $25+ for each spot and have to have many spots for a small tailgate. I agree that $10 is not so much, but the people you are trying to keep out won't pay anyway. They will just show up because this policy is completely unenforceable. So just like the rest of society, lets punish the law abiding, responsible citizens and reward the loser creeps.

TxDavid said:
I don't understand your logic here. $10 will keep them at home? I have no problem with them charging $10 for the people that do not have tickets to the game. As long as those resources are used to improve the tailgating. (add more toilets, personell, etc)
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What about the Texans charge per head per "lot costs, with maybe a slight markup" whether your walking in or in a car group, just don't charge the people with tickets in hand. How many thugs, rump shakers are gonna pay that to get in? Probably not a lot....

Charge per person what it cost for a parking pass per Blue Lot, Red Lot, ect...and then keep personnel in between lots so no one tries to move around with coolers or things like that. Allow "visiting" of the lots once you pay, but no lugging tailgate equipment. You pay, you stay in the lot your at. Not perfect system but hey its a suggestion.
 
I think I must not be getting the appeal of watching a game in the parking lot. It would never enter my mind to want to go down to Reliant Stadium on a Sunday without a ticket. If I'm going to watch the game on a TV it might as well be the one in my den.
 
I guess it is protection for them and you.

it puts a name with everyone that is on their property.
 
This is going to create a backlash among all fans, including the people who are paying for tickets.

Why would you try and change the best tailgating experience in the NFL?

Just go around during the game and ask those people to show their parking pass or whatever they need, not when you enter the parking lot before the game.
 
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TxDavid said:
And the scaplers are buying them up as we speak.....
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not sure how many they can get unless they have a lot of tickets

Each season ticket holder will only be able to acquire up to 4 for any given game until the limit is reached.
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and they run a risk

Will the Season Ticket Holder be responsible for the actions of their tailgate guest ticket holder? Yes. The Season Ticket Holder who purchased the tailgate guest ticket will be held responsible for the actions of their guest. If a disturbance occurs the Season Ticket Holder will be subject to removal from the property, revocation of their season ticket and/or parking pass.
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Lauren said:
Say 2 groups of friends from different areas of town both have Orange passes. Say Group A has two extra seats for people coming with Group B. They plan on giving them the tickets when they meet up in the parking lot.

How would that be handled?
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Lauren, that was my exact thought initially reading the new policy. Take JB and Hobie :hobie:... Each has had to meet up with me at Blue Crew for an extra ticket that I had. We couldn't meet up before Sunday.. WTF??
 
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