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9 minutes ago, Mittens said:

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It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. We used to go down for the game every year and usually make another trip or two before it closed. Add in some kids who want to do rides and it's insane how much you'd spend in one night. Now I drink wax cup beers, eat a corny dog or two and that's basically it. The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

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20 minutes ago, C-Man said:

It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. We used to go down for the game every year and usually make another trip or two before it closed. Add in some kids who want to do rides and it's insane how much you'd spend in one night. Now I drink wax cup beers, eat a corny dog or two and that's basically it. The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

Death spiral happening. Unfortunate.

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6 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

We went a couple of years ago and basically said never again because of how expensive it had gotten. 

This was us. Not only is it wildly expensive for what it is, it's gross. Maybe I've just aged out of it, but the fried foods, the socioeconomic demographics, the venues and shopping and rides and games -- all scream grimey and gross in a way that I never considered when I was much younger and it was much cheaper. I also live like an hour away going from the toll road.

TX/OU game or not at all for me.

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We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

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We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

A couple years ago on game day I spent $300 on just myself. Not on beers inside the stadium, on food and drink out on the midway. We stayed from 8am until probably 6 that night, but even then it was still ridiculous.
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5 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The 59 dollars to park and get in the door is where they are killing themselves. 

I'm sure there are options to take $10 off on Tuesday evening if you bring a can of green beans from Minyards or a 20 oz Dr. Pepper bottle on Thursday morning.  Having said that, It does seem like they would benefit from having some sort of surge pricing model.  Weekends can be full fare for entry (maybe still have some reduced entry with the Dr. Pepper bottle) and parking, but during the week make entry $5-$10 with parking in that same range.  I'd bet their attendance would increase significantly. The coupon cost increase was a scam.  Other than the vendors themselves realizing they are hurting sales by not reducing the number of tickets needed for a fried oreo I'm not sure much can be done about that.

We used to go on opening day every year and for TX/OU as frequently as possible.  It's been 2 or 3 years since the opening day trip and pre-Covid for the game for a variety of reasons.

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43 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

This was our first year that I can recall where we didn’t go on opening day.
It’s obscenely expensive at this point and just not worth the return.

Same, first year I didn't go opening day in a long time, and not sure I missed it. I miss going with our group of friends, but definitely not the money spent 

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My daughter loves to go to the OU game and the State Fair, and she begs me every year to go.  It has just gotten so expensive, and I have developed a pretty good hatred for 99.9% of mankind, so I just can't do it anymore.  Fuck paying an obscene amount of money to be crushed to death by hordes of Walmart people

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32 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Fuck paying an obscene amount of money to be crushed to death by hordes of Walmart Dollar General people

Fixed

Posted
3 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Are there even hordes of Dollar General people?

There are MONGOL HORDES of Dollar General people

Posted

I hope it keeps up like this for OU weekend. Last year was a complete fuck show with the game at 2:30. I am driving up Saturday morning this year instead of Friday. Goal is to get into the fair and go straight to the game instead of spending a few hours drinking at the fair before. Not only because of price, but because of the hordes of humanity. 

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Idk where you’ve been but I’ve been for the last 11 years in a row and 14 total and it’s never not been a shit show of people of game day. If you wanna talk about a shit show, how about when they wouldn’t sell alcohol inside, and handed out little red tickets on your way out of the stadium at halftime so that you could re-enter the game. That was a goddamned shit show.

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2 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Idk where you’ve been but I’ve been for the last 11 years in a row and 14 total and it’s never not been a shit show of people of game day. If you wanna talk about a shit show, how about when they wouldn’t sell alcohol inside, and handed out little red tickets on your way out of the stadium at halftime so that you could re-enter the game. That was a goddamned shit show.

It was always a shit show around game time, but if you got there 8-9am it was relatively chill and you could grab some beers and walk around. Game at 2:30 means the hordes show up around 11 and the next 3 hours are awful. 

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6 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Idk where you’ve been but I’ve been for the last 11 years in a row and 14 total and it’s never not been a shit show of people of game day. If you wanna talk about a shit show, how about when they wouldn’t sell alcohol inside, and handed out little red tickets on your way out of the stadium at halftime so that you could re-enter the game. That was a goddamned shit show.

Yea that was insane

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It's gotten absolutely ridiculous. We used to go down for the game every year and usually make another trip or two before it closed. Add in some kids who want to do rides and it's insane how much you'd spend in one night. Now I drink wax cup beers, eat a corny dog or two and that's basically it. The whole bumping tickets to $1 and then letting vendors charge the same number of tickets as usual was a nifty parlor trick.

When they bumped up the price of tickets, didn’t they make a big deal out of how prices would then be cut in half? I’m one of those “only goes on Texas OU and spends the vast majority of the time sipping on the cheap beer and people watching” variety. I don’t think I spend any more money than I used to but that’s on just a few beers, a corn dog, and a pirate ride.
Posted

20 tickets ($20) for two strawberry lemonades is crazy work. Especially when you can see the Sam's sized cannister of Country Time and Domino granular sugar bag in plain sight.

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3 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

We were looking around at the folks there and wondering how most were able to afford/justify it. For 4 of us to eat and go on a couple of rides was pushing $300. 

I wonder the same about baseball games, and well, shit, just about any form of live entertainment these days.

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We spent around $600 for 2 adults and 2 teens, and I said I am not doing this shit again.

Plus now we're divorced, and she's in a relationship with her divorce attorney.  So that has somewhat affected the dynamic.

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3 minutes ago, SameSame said:

We spent around $600 for 2 adults and 2 teens, and I said I am not doing this shit again.

Plus now we're divorced, and she's in a relationship with her divorce attorney.  So that has somewhat affected the dynamic.

Well, yeah....now THAT fuckstick can pick up the tab for your kids at the State Fair.

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