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A first in the NFL, the Bears are offering individual skybox seats to fans who don't have the cash or need for an entire box. For only $8,000 per seat (not counting $5,000 deposit refunded at 20% per year after 11 years), fans can enjoy the comforts of a giant 151-seat communal Skyline Suite. In addition to being safely protected from the elements, ammenities include leather seats, coat check, 46 plasmas including ones in the bathroom and all the food & drink one can consume. However, parking is extra -- unless you buy two seats. Then the Bears will throw that in, too!
Chicagoist is mystified by this offering. At $8,000 a seat, that's $1000 per home game! To sit in a room with a bunch of people you don't know and watch a football game through glass... Why not just go to a bar and save the cash? It's not like being in a skybox --tucked away warmly behind glass -- is really like being at the game anyway. And it's ten times the cost to see a game from a Wrigley rooftop. Or why not spend a half season's worth and buy a kick-ass plasma TV and surround sound for your living room? Pick up some snacks and beer, invite some buddies over and you're set until the Bears win the Super Bowl again for the price of four games.
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No real Bears fan would sit in one of those things! Bring on the snow and ice!
Um... ya'll are missing the obvious. These seats in the "Communal Skybox" are, like traditional Skybox rentals, not being marketed to the average fan. Joe Six-Pack can sit in the stands for all the McCrusty family cares, Skyboxes are for corporations to use in wining and dining clients. If Skyboxes are too expensive (don't they START at $10,000+ per game?) then maybe corporations can pony up the cash to buy a couple seats to a couple games in the Skyline Suite.
Don't tell me you all didn't see this coming? It's really no different then timeshare jet programs; companies that can't stomach the cost of owning a whole jet can just pay the costs of owning and operating one while they're using it. Same for the Skyline Suite, companies that can't pay for their own Skybox can now pay for part of one.