Don't Expect A Response

Now that the NFL is in full offseason/collective bargaining agreement mode, it's time for the 49ers to start thinking about how much money their ticketholders will be adding to their bank accounts for the (alleged) 2011 season. Last week, I received an email from my ticketing account manager, "reminding" me that the deadline for renewing my tickets is February 21. After laughing at the audacity of the Yorks to ask for more of my money before the March 4th CBA deadline, I promptly tossed the email into my trash folder.


Operators - and Lil' Jed - are standing by.

With only a week left until the 49ers' renewal deadline, I imagine there will be a few attempts to reach me over the next seven days, all of which I will ignore. I wonder how far the Niners will go to try and get me to renew? Phone calls? Deadline extensions? Pleading and begging? Postseason guarantees? Regardless, the answer will be NO.

I'm guessing this will be rough week for the ticket office as they constantly check their inboxes and transaction reports to see if anybody is signing up for another year of Alex Smith lobbing interceptions in crumbling Candlestick Park.

The Super Bowl fiasco in Dallas served as a reminder to all ticketholders that this league of greedy billionaires will continue to fleece every last dime they possibly can from their loyal customers without any concern for the quality of the product they are shilling. The backlash has begun, and teams that haven't experienced any semblence of success or competence over the past several seasons will be the first ones to feel the sting. And yes, that certainly includes the 49ers, a former marquee franchise that was once the model of consistent winning, but now has been reduced to nothing more than a case study in how arrogance and ignorance leads to mediocrity and irrelevance.