<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The traditionally buttoned down Boston Celtics are jumping on the NBA?s entertainment bandwagon, with plans for celebrity-style courtside seats and dancing girls. High-rolling fans will have 16 perches - retailing from $1,250 to $1,500 per game - next to the players? benches and along the court. It is a class of seats that has become popular with stars like Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles and Spike Lee in New York, and Rich Gotham, the Celtics chief operating officer, says he believes that Boston will be no exception. But Celtics fans may have more than celebrity watching to keep themselves occupied. The team? first dance squad - featuring 21 women from across the country - will take the floor this season. It?s part of an effort to rev up the entertainment at games. ?If there is a little more of a Hollywood, celebrity, VIP feel, they (fans) may feed off that,? Gotham said. The Celtics are just one of several NBA teams pushing new courtside perches. The Washington Wizards and Chicago Bulls are doing the same and charging an eye-popping $2,500 apiece. And the seats often come with special perks ordinary fans can only dream about. </div> Source Seems inevitable for teams to cater more and more to high rollers and corporate america in order to compete.
Not much you can do about that, money talks. And if a team like the C's doesn't want to go where the money is, then why bother spending millions on the contracts they write? All in all, I don't see this as a negative thing, and I want to see more like it as this ownership group gets more and more accustomed to the Boston way of doing things. The Red Sox have done nothing but improve since their new ownership group came in, and one of those things is treating fans like they actually matter, unlike Harrington or the Yawkeys, and now Wycliffe looks a little more ready to do the same thing. More power to him.
It's too bad teams and the owners these days are focusing more and more on $ rather than championships. Everybody wants to have money but one of the easist ways is to let the teams go and and build chemistry. Just like the Celtics why is there always talk about trades? Trades are just going to send us back a year or two. I don't know about everyone else here, but I like the core group we have I don't want to see another trade. I think maybe in 4-5 years we could be contenders if we keep the core together. Back on subject. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. I just gotta more accustomed to this way of thinking.
