Has David Beckham lost it already?

By: Robert | March 12th, 2008

Last year when the Beckham injury tour reached Dallas there was outrage in the local community that tickets had reached almost NFL levels while Goldenballs himself was unfit to play.

In the days leading up to the Englishman’s absence all the local newspapers ran stories about the beautiful game and whether David Beckham was really a soccer messiah brought here to save the sport from insignificance or if he was just another false prophet destined to fail at pushing the game from an activity of 7 year-olds on Saturday mornings to something of national interest.

In the wake of Beckham’s failure to board a plane, MLS made sure LA and FC Dallas would play an exhibition game at Pizza Hut Park this season to appease the locals and fill the coffers of the businessmen who lost out on pizza and beer sales plus parking fees from the match.

However the extreme notoriety Beckham achieved before the first possible meeting has been noticeably lessened ahead of his second coming. Forgive me if I have missed something but I have yet to see anything in the major papers about his Saturday arrival. In fact as kickoff gets closer tickets can be had on craigslist for increasingly less.

Yesterday 10AM – $200 for a pair of 3rd row seats at midfield

Yesterday 5:20PM – $90 for a pair of 12th row seats at midfield

Today 1:06PM – $40 for a pair of 19th row seats in section 110

First of all none of these are bad seats, and yes you could argue that the decreasing prices can be reflected in the relative closeness to the field, but even those that make that argument have to agree that $110 is a lot to pay (or not pay) for a nine row difference.

Has David Beckham dropped in popularity that much already that the media don’t cover him? Is the media just not doing its job? (although to defend my media brethren for a moment, we’re not supposed to be the marketing business) Is it only because this is an exhibition game? Is there another reason?

I don’t know the answer to this, but if Goldenballs reception this time around in Dallas is any indication of what’s to come this season LA may regret that $250 million real quick. (yes, I know its not a real $250 million)

Maybe the team was prescient in not pursuing another DP-level player right away because in Dallas we don’t want a situation where FC stands for “failed contract.”

HOOPS PRIDE!

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