As far as the tickets go; the Falcons continue to increase the season ticket prices. I can only image how much they'll increase if a new stadium is built.
Negotiations on a new downtown stadium for the Atlanta Falcons continue behind closed doors. But one thing seems clear: Much of the cost will be passed along to fans, some of whom are already bracing for a hit.
An examination by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of the three NFL stadiums built in the past five years shows that ticket prices jumped by an average of 26 percent in the season the stadiums opened, and that many fans paid thousands of dollars more in personal seat licenses merely for the right to buy tickets.
If the same happens here, some of the Falcons’ most ardent fans could be priced out of the games, especially those in the most marketable lower-level seats. And the ticket cost doesn’t account for the concessions and souvenir prices that also sometimes rise with a new stadium.
With a preliminary price tag of $948 million, the proposed Falcons stadium has been described by the team and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority as a public-private project that would be built with an estimated $300 million in bonds secured by hotel-motel tax proceeds. The Falcons would be on the hook for the remaining $648 million. While the team has not responded to questions about how its portion of the cost would be recouped, experts expect the answer to include stadium naming rights, luxury suite sales and higher fan costs. http://www.ajc.com/sports/fans-pay-the- ... 47331.html
