re: New bill to allow athletes to get paid.

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Seriously...I pay about $500 per seat, per year, for my 4 season tickets, sideline, 5 yard line, upper deck, for 7 home games. Calculate the price for the premium game and a percentage of the Tide Pride donation, and I'm paying maybe $125 per ticket for LSU this year.

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I think the big issue comes with fans who aren't living locally. We have seats in the lower level around the 5 yard line. Let's just say the average cost per ticket per game is $100. We have 4. That's $400 per game just for tickets. My family lives in Memphis, 6 hours from Baton Rouge. That's gonna be 2.5 tanks of gas roundtrip (~$125), hotel $300-400/night for 2 nights depending on the game, and we'll call it 3-4 meals worth of food plus alcohol, conessions, etc. That doesn't even include the couple of grand in donations per seat each year to stay where we are. And these expenses have grown exponentially the past 20 years. Donations used to be small, tickets were less than half as expensive as they are now, gas was cheaper, and so was lodging. It's just a lot of money for a lot of non-local season ticket holders to continue to pay more and more each year to go to these games, especially now that every game is on TV when only maybe half of your games were 20 years ago.