9,000+ no-shows. Are you kidding? This team goes on a four-game (now five) winning streak, makes football fun in Denver for the first time in 7+ years, and we have almost 10,000 empty seats at the stadium. Not to mention, a pretty big contingent of Browns fans.
Look, I’m sunshine and rainbows about all of the on-field things right now and I don’t want to kill the vibe. Broncos football is back and it’s awesome. But this was a huge “wtf” for me. I remember the Elway-era Broncos (pre-SB), it was still very rare for Old Mile High to have any empty seats on game day - even for, say, the 8-8 1995 Broncos. 10K MIA is just hard to compute.
And idk that ticket prices were really the culprit, because secondary market tickets were available for $50 or less yesterday. It’s still expensive, but man. I thought we were going to have a raucous building and instead it was a lot of empties.
Yesterday was my first Broncos game since 2016.
The amount of empty seats was the first thing i noticed.
The second thing was the sheer amount of people sitting on their asses when the defense was on the field. I stood up a few times on 3rd and 4th down and i felt like people were pissed off next to and behind me.
So weird coming from games where the entire crowd was on their feet from the 1st to the last play of every defensive drive.
Culture sure has changed, but so has the team. So im not sure what to think.
I still cheered my ass off though!