Thinking of selling your tickets? Think again.
Season tickets to see your favorite team is a dream of many sports fans. Experiencing the action in person takes on such a different feeling than watching on television. For many teams, including the Indianapolis Colts, there is even a wait list to purchase season tickets. The Colts are treating that more as a privilege than a right. Starting next season, ticket holders who sell the majority of their tickets will start to face consequences.
The Colts aren’t the only one, but teams are starting to crack down on people who buy season tickets and simply sell most of them off. It can create after market issues with large numbers being purchased by outside entities and then sold for much higher prices. It also blocks true fans who want to witness and be part of the action because they have to spend time on wait lists for season tickets. This isn’t a new policy of the Colts, but it appears it is going to be more strongly enforced going forward. Last year won’t be held against fans, but starting in 2025, the Colts will be keeping a watchful eye.
While fans can and still will sell some tickets for select games, this should have a huge benefit towards providing the home team with even more of an advantage. It should cut down on the sea of Bears, Steelers, and Lions fans we saw flood into Lucas Oil last year. With true fans owing the tickets, they may be more inclined to actually come to the game instead of trying to turn tickets over for profit. Seeing Colts blue will be a great sight instead of huge swathes of the opponents colors dotting the stadium.
Will this change everything next year? Doubt it, but it might make some fans reconsider letting go of too many of their tickets on the secondary market. It should also work to eliminate tickets being purchased for the sole reason of being sold. Having a stadium overrun by an opponent’s fans is not what the home team wants to see. If the Colts crack down on this and truly hold to this policy, we could see a different view at Lucas Oil soon enough.