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Today Matt Teri posted a copy of the letter that Redskin fans are receiving about the recent stadium renovations, and how it pertains to the season tickets waiting list. If you haven’t already seen it, you can check it out here.

Ever seen the movie Sid and Nancy? There’s a scene in it where Johnny Rotten is sick of Sid’s crap and looks at the crowd and says, “Ever feel like you’ve been cheated?”


That’s all I can hear in my head after reading this drivel, so I felt compelled to address a few items. What follows are some excerpts from the official letter, and a satirical, near sardonic interpretation by yours truly:

1) “We are writing to clear up some recent confusion in the media regarding the status of our season ticket Wait List.”

We actually wanted to do all of this without telling you at all, and hope that nobody noticed. We forgot that in this incredibly plugged-in, technical world, you would find out anyway. So here’s what we in the marketing business call spin control.

2) “Please rest assured that your name remains on the list, and that this is the only way to obtain Redskins general admission season tickets. We continue to have one of the largest season ticket Wait Lists in the NFL, and we are one of just a few teams that has a Wait List at all.”

We have been guerilla marketing email addresses and names from every promotion that you’ve ever participated on at Redskins.com (and you probably didn’t realize that you had been added to the waiting list), but this allows us to pump up the fan base with stories of how popular our average product still is. We have sweatshops of people telemarketing to sell the things, but for some reason, people aren’t that interested in dropping $500-700 to take their family to see a 6-10 team.

3) “Because of the labor dispute between the League and the Players Association, in February of this year we discontinued most of our efforts to sell season tickets.”

Because we could not sell the last 10,000 tickets, we decided to hack them out of the stadium in hopes that we wouldn’t have to buy that many tickets ourselves next year to avoid public blackouts.

4) “We did not want to put our fans in the position of having to buy tickets with a lockout imminent or risk losing their place on the Wait List.”

And it would be too logical to keep the season ticket waiting list the same, should their be any type of work stoppage for the regular season.

5) “This gave us the opportunity to commence our Upper Level renovation project with our energy partner NRG, which will include solar panels as part of our effort to make FedExField one of the leaders in “going green”.”