$202,000 Jeter Card

[MULLINS5]

Originally Posted by todeen

+1

I live in Washington state. When Jeter announced his retirement, I realized I had never seen him live. So I bought tickets in February to his last home series in Seattle versus the Mariners. I'm not even a Yankees fan! I even took my toddler so he could say when he's 65 that he went to a Derek Jeter game (granted he can't remember it). We sat out in the section that is normally "King's Corner" with the Felix Hernandez fans. I'm not lying that I hardly saw a Mariner's jersey in that corner. We were surrounded by people who had New York accents. He is an icon. Biggest player of my generation. I doubt that will be the last Jeter card to hit that number. Mike Trout might be a better player, but unless he gets those WS rings, he won't compete with Jeter for legendary status.

Not to derail, but when I recently heard the Patriots were playing at FedEx Field vs the Redskins I bought tickets for the family and went to watch Brady play since the Redskins are the closest team to us (3 hours). That place was PACKED with Patriots/Brady fans about 70/30. I knew it was probably going to be the last shot I had seeing him play in person and that's how most of the people in our section felt as well.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Times have changed. I grew up in the DC area and in the 70s and 80s, unless you had connections, Redskins tickets were hard to come by.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by MULLINS5

Not to derail, but when I recently heard the Patriots were playing at FedEx Field vs the Redskins I bought tickets for the family and went to watch Brady play since the Redskins are the closest team to us (3 hours). That place was PACKED with Patriots/Brady fans about 70/30. I knew it was probably going to be the last shot I had seeing him play in person and that's how most of the people in our section felt as well.

I went to the Rams vs Packers game last season in LA. I'd say at least 70% of the fans were rooting for the Packers, if not much more. It felt like a home game. I thought this was in large part due to packer fans traveling or those like myself who have relocated but have come to find out it's pretty standard for most Ram and Charger games out here.