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Preseason football, regular-season prices

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Thursday, September 3, 2009

CHICAGO -- Covering preseason football is all about finding the storylines. Here's one for you: Why play this game at all? Charging regular-season ticket prices for the fourth game of the preseason is the biggest boondoggle in professional sports. Check that, charging fans $46 for parking at a preseason game is boondogglier, but that's another story. Paying good money (as opposed to Monopoly money) to watch Jay Cutler hand off six times before exiting is one thing. Paying it to watch the firs ...

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