Seahawks won't sell tickets to California addresses

[Auggie]

The Seahawks are limiting ticket sales to just six states and the Canadian provinces.

Only credit cards with addresses from Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii will be allowed to buy tickets to next Sunday's NFC Championship game between the 49ers and Seahawks at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. That's it.

California is not on the list. The move will give ticket preference to Seahawks fans and, the team hopes, eliminate scalpers.

Niners fans are known for traveling. This season, 49ers fans made their presence known in several opposing stadiums, and 49ers' play-by-play voice Ted Robinson said Sunday there were droves of San Francisco fans in Charlotte for the 49ers' 23-10 win.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Seahawks-won-t-sell-tickets-to-California-5136665.php

Eliminate scalpers? BULLSHIT! I expect fans to act like children, not a professional sports franchise.

Bush-league, Seahawks. Fuck you.

[opiate69]

1. Lmao.. Ya'll Whiners fans can use my Fife work address if you like.

[madinmaryland]

2. Too fucking FUNNY!! Here is your ride...

[El Supremo]

3. Gawd! Another week of Forty Weenies on this board.

[KamaAina]

4. Hawai'i is Niners country!!!

I will be sure to tell all my kama'aina (local people) about this!

[GP6971]

5. I remember a new wine

from the Seattle area called "whine" due to a questionable officiating call.

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. Awe.....poor niner

It is probably more about keeping it classy, if your post is a representative of Niner fan behavior ...

[Jamaal510]

7. Forget the Bears-Packers--

this right here has to be the most heated rivalry going on right now. To have people taking a game so seriously that they're conspiring to not sell tickets to the visiting team's fans...now that is taking things to another level.

[LTG]

8. Similar rules for Bronco tickets

The Denver Broncos are limiting their AFC Championship game tickets to people having a billing address in Rocky Mountain states. So it seems to be a policy for both championship games and not a Seattle plot aimed solely at 49ers fans. Both teams seem to be trying to make sure their fan bases have first crack at the available seats.

That doesn't really explain Hawaii being on the list, as it has many more 49ers fans than Seahawks fans.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Coaches do not create heated rivalries...

This is simply a story of two coaches disliking each other. The rivalry will end when one of the coaches leaves.

[KamaAina]

10. Nobody likes Pete Carroll

Harbaugh isn't exactly Mr. Popularity, either. So they'd both have to leave.

[JonLP24]

13. They're in the same division

So the potential for rivalry will always be there but I don't even think about the coaches when looking at the matchup. The antics by the fans of both cities like the billboard. Players seem to have hostility to the opposing teams and there were front office moves aimed at screwing the other team and picking off each others players. They also have the same style of play and got good at the same time.

There is a lot of bad blood between these teams. I do see how the coaches can be aspect to it as there is a personal rivalry between them and fans of the bay area already disliked Carroll but they aren't the reason why it is most heated rivalry right now.

It will die down and some other rivalry will be the most heated but don't think it will really end until all the players from each team's current rosters are gone - even then there will be situations where they need to beat each other which builds rivalries.

[TZ]

11. Nationals did this vs. Philadelphia

Last year. The phans got all indignant . Maybe it was because the drunk bus loads of phans who made Nats park unpleasant- yes I know all Phans aren't bad- but the ones who came to DC were totally obnoxious- right down to the ones who cheered when Jayson Werth broke his wrist. Seahawks have a right to do this, honestly. And their fans should have first chance at tickets. This won't keep 49 fans away but it helps

[El Supremo]

12. Payback's a bitch!

[opiate69]

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