Thursday, August 6, 2009

Enjoy the game, and $90 pizza!

As we've seen recently in sports, new stadiums have taken price gouging to a new level. I haven't yet been able to make it back East to go to the new Yankee Stadium, but my father has. He said in the suites that 16 oz. domestic drafts were $24, and that a Coke was $15. He also went by a sweatshirt stand that had a $85 Yankee Universe hoodie, and $30 t-shirts.

But, it looks like Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have made the new Yankee Stadium look like Big Lots.

According to Steven Sipple of Lincoln Journal World in Nebraska, a large cheese pie pizza (sorry, I forgot you guys don't call it "pie" out here) will cost $90 in their luxury suites. Want some beer to wash it down? Feel free to buy a 12-pack of domestic cans - for $66! You could actually pay $156 for a 20-inch no-topping pizza and 12 beers. That's quite a large gap between a Crazy Eight Deal ($8.88) from Avers in Bloomington and a 12-pack of Busch Light ($7.45).

Another question: how much for toppings? Let's say that the average large pie pizza costs $14, and the average additional topping is $2 (talking about the premo stuff here, like bacon or something weird like pineapple). That means that the average additional topping price is 14.2% of the cost of an average large pie pizza.

So, let's do the math: 14.2% of $90 (cost at new Cowboys Stadium) is $12.78. That means that a large pepperoni pie pizza would cost over $100 in the Cowboys luxury suite.

With those high prices, we've officially reached a new low.

UPDATE: turns out that the no-topping pie pizza actually will cost $60 (thanks to Yahoo! Sports blog Shutdown Corner). That's still ridiculous.

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