I wanna see your booty…

By: Robert | March 5th, 2008

Yes that is P.Diddy After reading that season ticket sales have slumped for this upcoming season (I feel dirty reading anything from a Dreamsicle site) I’ve started coming up with marketing ideas to help bring people to the stadium. Illogical solutions like move Pizza Hut Park to Dallas were ignored because we don’t have the technology Springfield has in “Trash of the Titans.” And I’ve ignored the ideas that affect play on the field such as adding three pointers or a shot clock because purists would revolt and Eric Wynalda would crawl out from under his rock with “too many drinks in [him] and club [my] ass.” However somewhere in the middle there lies a middle ground and I intend to find it on a recurring post aptly titled “I wanna see your booty…in a seat at Pizza Hut Park.”

Today’s ideas:

Thunderstick giveaway – I know its not 2002 anymore but those things make a lot of noise and there have been times when outside of the loyal Inferno crowd its been pretty quiet. Thundersticks allow non-song and cheer knowing members of the crowd to join in with rhythm.

Get the San Diego Chicken – This guy is even older but in 2007 minor league attendance increased 27% when he was there. I know MLS isn’t a minor league but the Chicken still brings them home to roost (that was a terrible pun, I know)

Encourage a “Lambeau Leap” – Green Bay Packers players jump into the stands after every touchdown and nothing brings fans closer to the action than being able to touch the players. I won’t ascribe a 1:1 ratio to the situation but in Green Bay people leave spots in line to buy season tickets in their wills.

Play a game in the Cotton Bowl each year – I know Pizza Hut Park was built to keep the money “in house” but Frisco, TX is about 30 miles from Dallas and there are plenty of fans who just don’t want to make that trip. Playing an pre-season game or some sort of exhibition down in Dallas might entice to not forget that the team exists.

I don’t remember everything so maybe some of these ideas have been done before and maybe they haven’t, either way FC Dallas has one of the best stadiums in the league and no one comes to see it. So tonight in Dallas put on your thinking cap because the FC stands for “fervent cadre” and not much else.

HOOPS PRIDE!

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