You have $3 in your pocket right now? You can ...
- Buy most of a Big Mac. Prices are rising. Might need to search the cushions of your couch for some change to pay for it all.
- Get a medium latte at a major coffee shop. A large might bring you over the $3 limit.
- Get close to one gallon of gas, depending where you live.
- Check out about 25 minutes or so of "Horrible Bosses 2" at the theater. No way you're seeing the whole movie for $3, bub.
- Watch live Washington Redskins football.
The Redskins are currently the best bargain in sports, although some would argue that even $3 is overpaying for their terrible product. Tickets for this Sunday's home game against the equally mediocre St. Louis Rams are going for as low as $3 as of early afternoon on Friday, (h/t to the Washington Post). That's according to SeatGeek, a secondary ticket seller.
CATCH THE FEVER, WASHINGTON FANS!
A spokesman at SeatGeek said the ticket prices are even lower than for the team's preseason games this past August. Since 2009 the only other game SeatGeek has seen drop this low was last week's game between the Carolina Panthers and Minnesota Vikings, played between two losing teams in bitterly cold weather. The $3 seats that were available for Rams-Redskins on Sunday were discounted about 95 percent off the face value of $69. The $3 tickets were for standing-room only, but upper level seats were available for $4, and lower-level seats were available for as low as $16, according to SeatGeek. Even the "Dream Seats" behind the Redskins' sideline are just $80 on the resale market for this Sunday. Those tickets generally go for several hundred dollars. Tickets for Washington's preseason games against the Patriots and Browns this year resold for an average of $41 and $36. Tickets for Sunday's game are averaging about $31, SeatGeek said.
According to Team Marketing Report, via the Washington Times, the Redskins started the season with the seventh highest average ticket price in the NFL, at $102. Since September, Redskins ticket prices have dropped 64 percent, the Washington Post said. Only the Vikings, Rams and Raiders have hosted regular-season games this season in which the average ticket was resold for less than $40, SeatGeek said. Washington, which has one one playoff game this century, is in the middle of another terrible season. The team is 3-9 and on a four-game losing streak. Just two years ago the excitement level for the franchise was incredible, with rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III leading the way to a NFC East title. Griffin was benched earlier this season for poor play, and could be traded this offseason. Second-string quarterback Kirk Cousins was benched earlier this season as well.
So Washington is in the worst place possible for a professional sports team. They're not just bad, they're so hopless that nobody there even cares to go watch and voice their displeasure anymore.
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