Struggles at Ticket Office Slightly Humble Buccaneer Marketing Tactics

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Published: July 23, 2009

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... have most likely been bombarded recently by commercials bearing this slogan. Yes, the time has officially come for Malcolm Glazer and friends to tuck their tails in between their legs and begin begging people to buy season tickets, a peculiar task once reserved for the baseball team across the Howard Frankland Bridge.

After roughly a decade of ticket sales coming easily, the mixture of a shoddy team outlook and extremely high prices has finally caught up with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

After all, this is the team that, as recently as 2007, flaunted its 145,000 person season ticket waiting list all around town in a Boratesque "You will never get this!" manner. This is the team that once used a lackluster 9-7 season and first round playoff exit as a reason to significantly hike up ticket prices on every seat in Raymond James Stadium. Our family season tickets are now $100 per seat, but who's counting.

A trip to the Buccaneers website now is a much more "please ...

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