The Great Dan Steinberg had a D.C. Sports Bog post today about teams incentivizing fans to become salespersons for the organization.
The Redskins, TGDS writes, are currently offering a big discount on premium seats to any ticketholder who brings more premium ticketbuyers to the organization.
Here's some copy from the team's promotion of its referral program posted on the [...]

The lead sentence of yesterday's press release from the Washington Redskins, dated Jan. 13, 2010, announcing the team won't raise ticket prices: "The Redskins have announced that general admission ticket prices for the 2010 season will be unchanged, remaining at the same price for the fifth season in a row.
The lead sentence of last year's press release [...]

Another Redskins game that ain't a sellout. Another Redskins game that won't be blacked out.
The graphic above is from the latest installment of the now regular email blasts that precede every home game.
But no matter what your head tells you, remember: Dan Snyder says the Redskins have a waiting list of "over 200,000" names of [...]

Here's how powerful the legend of the Redskins season ticket waiting list really is: Yesterday the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer ran a long column about how a Charlotte lawyer's lifetime dream of having Skins tickets is about to become a reality.
The lede:
In 1989, when he was a 9-year-old from Virginia Beach, Norris Adams had [...]

Robin Ficker, who sued to get Redskins seasons tickets 20 years but turned them back into the team a few weeks ago, isn't going into hibernation.
As Fickerphiles know, making a scene at sporting events ain't his only fetish: So is running for political office.
As Ficker, a ruthless and tireless campaigner who has run for every [...]

Vinny Cerrato got creative with his team's fifth-round pick. Uh oh!
The Redskins' GM-with-a-longer-title-and-less-power-than-a-typical-GM selected Cody Glenn, a converted linebacker whose Nebraska career was most notable for injuries and the way it ended: by getting kicked off the team last year for an undisclosed off-field incident.
As Lawrence Phillips or any honest Husker fan can tell you, [...]

I wrote this week about the history of the Redskins waiting list and its apparent descent into bogosity.
I sensed things were bad over at the team's ticket office.
Turns out they're worse.
Dan Snyder claims in interviews there are "over 200,000" folks waiting for season tickets.
Oh, really?
CITY PAPER HAS OBTAINED a piece of direct mail (available after [...]