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Would You Pay Almost $19 for a Beer at an Eagles Game?
By Kyle Pagan
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This picture has been floating around from, we think, The Weeknd’s recent concert at Lincoln Financial Field. It shows a screen with concession prices:
We’ll get a more clear picture of what the Eagles prices will be after their first preseason game on Thursday, but it looks like you’ll be paying almost a full Andrew Jackson to have a beer and watch the Birds beat up on the Cowboys. $18.50 for a beer is a tough pill to swallow when you can get a 30 rack for $5 more and sit in the comfort of your home and watch the game on your 4K television and don’t need to wait in line for the bathroom. I guess when you need to pay for a potential new stadium and Jalen Hurts’ contract these are the prices you get, but would it kill Aramark and the Birds to at least incentivize it for fans? Buy 200 beers during the season and you get a replica Super Bowl ring. Maybe a meet and greet with Saquon. There has to be something we can do like those punch cards you get at coffee shops when you buy 10.
The question is how sustainable these prices are. We write these blogs every single year and the title is never “Concession Prices at (insert stadium here) Have Decreased!” Then you look at the Falcons stadium and you see fans are paying $6 for a beer. You mean to tell me we have to pay triple for that? That’s insane. You have to think once technology gets better and we’re able to create affordable VR headsets people are going to opt for their couch over the game and that’s when we’ll see these ticket and concession prices plummet. We’re already seeing places like COSM in Dallas and LA that have better views then the majority of seats in the Linc:
Then again, the live fan experience is like no other. You can’t replicate a Saquon Barkley run in the snow in your temperature-controlled living room. So in the end, as long as people want live sporting entertainment, the Eagles can charge $40 for parking, $7.50 for waters, and $17 for cutlets because we’ll pay them.
P.S. Funny enough it was $10 for a bottle of water during the FIFA Club World Cup, so imagine what these prices are going to look like during the World Cup next year:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com