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.
9k no-shows is a lot, but the usual is somewhere between 3k and 5k no-shows. Probably because of thanksgiving weekend, if I had to guess.