12 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 9, 1994
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The Giants raised their ticket prices more than any other NFL team in 1994.
NFL prices keep iLsing
NEW YORK (AP)- A day at an
NFL game for a family of four remains
the most expensive outing in pro sports,
averaging $184.19, according to Team
Marketing Report, a Chicago-based
newsletter.
The cost represents a 6.3 percent
increase from last season, when the
average was $173.37, and includes four
average-priced tickets, two small beers,
four small sodas, four hot dogs, park-
ping for one car, two game programs
-and two twill caps.
The biggest contributor to the NFL's
increase was an 8.2 percent rise in
average ticket prices to $31.05, the
largestone-year boostsince 1981,when
Team Marketing Report began track-
ing such statistics.
Beer went up 7 percent, with the
,hiladelphia Eagles charging the most,
.$4.75 for a 14-ounce cup.
The San Francisco 49ers, with an
_ verage ticket price of $39.75, have the
NFL's highest average cost for a fam-
ily of four for the fourth consecutive
year - $236, 14 percent higher than
jast year.
The Green Bay Packers, whose
average ticket price is $26.13, have the
lowestaverage cost, $151.02. The Cin-
cinnati Bengals are the second-least
expensive team to see with an average
cost of $163.22. Then come the India-
napolis Colts at $164.90 and the New
Orleans Saints at $167.83.
The NBA had a Fan Cost Index of
$168.78 during the 1993-94 season,
with the average ticket price at $27.12.
Major league baseball's 1993 Fan Cost
Index was $95.80 and its average ticket
price was $10.45.
Football's first $40 ticket belongs
to Philadelphia, with the league aver-
age at $31.05, an increase from $28.68
last year. That helped the Eagles be-
come the second-most expensive team
with a Fan Cost Index of $216, fol-
lowed by the New York Giants at
$213.35 and the Los Angeles Raiders
at $201.27.
The cheapest ticket in the league is
$25, charged by the New York Jets.
The Giants had the biggest increase
in ticket prices this year, to $35.59, a
23.8 percent rise, with the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers right behind with a22.9
percent boost, up to $29.57.
Sixteen teams increased ticket
prices this season and nine teams froze
ticket prices from a year ago - the
ArizonaCardinals, Cleveland Browns,
Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay, India-
napolis Colts, the Raiders, the Los
Angeles Rams, the Jets and the Wash-
ington Redskins. Some teams held off
because they make changes only every
few years.
The three teams decreasing aver-
age ticket prices were the Atlanta Fal-
cons, Minnesota Vikings and New
Orleans Saints.
Irvan on
fast road
to recovery
after crash
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - It was
one of the best phone calls Dale
Earnhardthas everreceived. ErnieIrvan
was on the line.
Earnhardt, the six-time Winston
Cup champion, revealed Thursday that
he got a call at home Wednesday night
from Irvan, who received severe head
injuries in a crash last month at Michi-
gan International Speedway.
"He's real sharp," said Earnhardt,
who is preparing for Saturday night's
Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Richmond
International Speedway. "I figured he
might be a little slow, but he sounded
great.
"Man, it was just so good, so good,
to hear him like that."
Irvan has been moved out of inten-
sive care at an Ann Arbor hospital and
has been telling friends hewants to race
again.
"He was real sure about one thing,"
Earnhardt said. "He kept saying, 'I
ain't retiring. I ain't gonna retire.' "
Earnhardt said he was very sur-
prised to pick up the phone and hear
Irvan on the other end, and even more
surprised to hearhow lucid he sounded.
'He was real sure
about one thing. He
kept saying, "1 ain't
.retiring.) ain't gonna
retire"'
- racer Dale Earnhardt
on Ernie Irvan
Earnhardt, who had visited Irvan
just after the crash, said Mark Martin
and Benny Parsons visited him at the
hospital on Wednesday.
"They were having a big old time
and joking around and somebody said,
'Let's call Earnhardt.' And the next
thing I know, Ernie's on the phone,"
Earnhardt said.
Irvan, who received head and lung
injuries when his car slammed into a
wall during practice Aug. 20, was
moved to a regular room on Wednes-
day, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital offi-
cials said Thursday in a recorded state-
ment.
His condition was upgraded over
the weekend from serious to fair and he
also was removed from a ventilator. He
regained consciousness Aug. 27.
Hospital spokeswoman Margo L.
Burrage said Irvan began taking short
walks in the hospital last week. He will
remain hospitalized indefinitely and
there are no immediateplans to transfer
him to a hospital near his North Caro-
lina home.
Players Association head Donald Fehr answers reporters' questions regarding the players' idea for a settlement;
instead of a salary cap, a taxation plan was suggested. A decision on the fate of the season may be made today.
Baseball seasvon still possiblea
playrers offYer'aaton' proposal
NEW YORK (AP) - With the
season just a day away from being
canceled, striking baseball players de-
livered a "taxation" plan to owners
yesterday and hoped it would be ac-
cepted in place of a salary cap.
Players presented their idea to own-
ers during a 30-minute meeting in the
early evening, and owners said they
would review it overnight.
"Ifthere'sasettlementwithinreach,
or a possibility of that coming, I don't
think there's atime frame on this," Los
Angeles Dodgers outfielder Brett But-
ler said.
Soon after the proposal was deliv-
ered, acting commissioner Bud Selig
said in Milwaukee that the deadline,
which he set last week, "still applies."
"Everything is as it's been all
along," he said in a telephone inter-
view.
Both sides had said they expected a
formal bargaining session to take place
yesterday, but it never developed.
Players met with their lawyers and
economists for most of the day at the
union office in Manhattan. They then
walked three blocks to the
commissioner's office where three
union lawyers delivered the "concept"
along with Dodgers pitcher Orel
Hershiser, Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop
Jay Bell, Texas Rangers pitcher Kevin
Brown and Oakland Athletics catcher
Terry Steinbach.
"Togo without apostseason would
be devastating to the game," Butler
said. "Nobody is going to win and
nobody is winning right now."
The proposal, according to the
union, is based on a framework similar
to the revenue-sharing agreement own-
ers adopted last January. Instead of a
salary cap, however, it includes a taxa-
tion concept in which clubs could have
any payroll they wanted, but would be
forced to share a larger amount of lo-
cally generated revenue as their pay-
rolls increased.
"They've got to have a chance to
look it over," Brown said.
Negotiations have taken on a sense
of urgency since Selig announced the
deadline last Friday.
The strike, which began Aug. 12
and enters its fifth week Friday, threat-
ens to prevent the World Series from
being played for the first time since
1904. It is baseball's eighth work stop-
page since 1972.
A group of three team officials met
with union lawyers late Wednesday
night to discuss the concepts the union
was considering. Union head Donald
Fehr said the ideas came about from
additional information owners provided
to players at the start of the Labor Day
weekend.
After that meeting ended at about
midnight, Colorado Rockies owner
Jerry McMorris and Boston Red Sox
chiefexecutive officerJohn Harrington
expressed hope that perhaps the season
could be saved.
The full owners' group, which also
includes Chicago White Sox chairman
Jerry Reinsdorf, Atlanta Braves presi-
dent Stan Kasten, former St. Loui*
Cardinals CEO Stuart Meyer and Mil-
waukee Brewers vice president Wendy
Selig-Prieb, spent Thursday at the
commissioner's office awaiting word
from the union.
"I'm sitting here anxiously await-
ing," Philadelphia Phillies owner Bill
Giles said from his office in Veterans
Stadium.
Eugene Orza, the union's No. $
official, said players didn't present a
formal plan because "we're still trying
to get accurate numbers."
Fehr did not attend Thursday
evening's meeting, and the role of
management negotiator Richard
Ravitch was unclear. In recent days,
Ravitch's role appears to have waned
asMcMorris and Harrington's involve-
ment increased.
Owners presented their salary cap
proposal on June 14, but the union has
said it never will accept the idea. Own-
ers repeatedly have insisted that they
need cost certainty, but players have
said they like the free-market system of
free agency and salary arbitration that
has increased the average salary from
$51,501 in 1976to$1,188,679onopen-
ing day this year.
Five more games were wiped ou*
Thursday, increasing the total to 357,
more than 15 percent of the season. A
settlement Friday probably would al-
low players to return to the field on
Sept. 16or Sept. 19, depending on how
many days of workouts the sides agree
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