[longsuffering]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Are you a STH?

My tickets cost $10k for the pair (and some people pay double that), rising at about 5% per year. Which is my choice to pay, obviously.

The experience, for that $10k, includes way over-crowded concourses, ridiculous bathroom lines, freezing cold water in the bathrooms, terrible concessions, small seats with too little leg room, and little to nothing in the way of restaurants and other establishments around the rink for before and after.

I would not say those are minor issues. If you are a STH and feel that way, that's fine. But I get tired of people who aren't - who watch games for free and feel they deserve a team - telling me those aren't big deals.

If you want people to buy tickets and support having a team here, you have to offer them reasonable value for their money. And when I compare the experience at the Saddledome to that of any other rink I have been to, well there is no comparison. It's embarrassing.

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

don't try to tell STHers that it is. They are dropping real and significant coin so that we all have a team to watch. If they stop doing that because the arena sucks, then yes, it is a very big deal.

First tier fan believes Calgary taxpayers should kick in for the building but don't deserve to be heard unless they're STH. You're not related to Kevin Lowe are you?