At the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas many of the Superbowl attendees who had purchased season tickets for over 100,000 dollars filed a lawsuit on Tuesday February 8, 2011 on the grounds of fraud, breach of contract, and deceptive sales. Many of the season ticket holders sat in metal folding chairs that were placed in areas with obstructive views by metal poles and other objects. The NFL announced just hours before the game that 1,250 of the temporary seats set up were unsafe for the viewers. So as the league scrambled to find seats for 850 people, over 400 were placed in rooms outside of the arena and were forced to watch the game on T.V. monitors, and most weren't able to sit. The 400 peole were told that they have two options, one to have free tickets to next years superbowl and a cash payment of 2,400 dollars, which is three times the amount that the ticket was worth, or they can have a free ticket to any future game of their choice and this option includes free air-fare and hotel accomodations.
I really believe that the Dallas Cowboys owners were in the wrong here. Sure, they want to be able to pack as many people into that stadium as possible and make alot of money. But at the same time they should have thought about how much money the people who had purchased season tickets had spent and then accomodated them much better. I would personally be very upset about not being able to see a football game from my normal seat which I have purchased year after year. They also do need to realize though that it wasn't planned for them to have to sit in folding chairs, they had run out of the seating that the NFL had deemed was safe. So they shouldn't really be suing the Cowboys, they should really be pointing fingers at the NFL if they were going to start playing the blame game at all. Or they can look at it like the 30 million fans who sat at home and watched the game on T.V. they should be grateful they were able to purchase them at all.
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