I cant fucking wait for the 2026 world cup to be be the shittiest world cup in history
Pay us thousands of dollars for the shittiest tickets, also, please give us all your social media and fking dna for immigration too, also we might just fucking deport you because you're too brown lol lmao
The tiny little Canada and Mexico flags peeking over lol
Will this manage to have more human rights violations than the qatar one
100%
I love how everything just keeps costing more despite not a single worker at any point in the process of providing these things is being paid more
They're literally basing the economy on 1% spending
Hey what about "some assholes failson put in a managerial position making 100K+ a month+whatever they can skim off the top when no ones looking", theyre technically workers
They were making a lot of money before though and they're not making 4-6x as much now, i know I don't need to tell you but like it's just staggering how much is being squeezed from us just to make corporate profits 0.x% higher
5 million still ordered tickets.
1 percent of all humanity is still tens of millions of people with infinite money
Yea i reckon theres lots of wealthy expats living in the us who want to watch their teams
Honestly it might be their most profitable games
Idk man. I know a lot of football fans who spend a shit ton of money going to matches they can't really afford.
I love that they picked a bunch of cities with absolutely dogshit practically non existent public transit. I'm sure the traffic in LA, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and Atlanta (among other locations) will be nightmarish.
if visitors are willing to pay those prices for tickets, they'll be more than happying paying extortionate fees for ubers that'll be sat in traffic for 18 hours on match days
It'll work, because the US is a very populous wealthy nation. Qatar is very wealthy, but has a tiny population. As shown by the Taylor Swift concert ticket saga, plenty of people in the US are prepared to pay these prices. And that's before talking about wealthy foreigners.
I know Americans who travelled to her European shows because the tickets were 1/4 of US prices because the EU still has some consumer protections. They were able to pay for the show, transportation and lodging for less than the price of a single ticket in the US.
i wonder how rich i'd have to be to consider paying 12k to attend a show with a friend.
8 figures. i knew / worked for someone in that category. inherited 8 figures at birth. they were a monstrous person. they didn't say specifics, but one could piece it together.
apparently one weekend their spouse flew off to some city and dropped like $40k that weekend on like accomodations, food, and a shopping spree.
same person would dodge me at payroll time for my shitty $1200/mo and invite themselves out to drinks with their employees, order a bunch of shit, and then realize they "forgot their wallet" and never pay anyone back.
people at this level of wealth are all garbage.
Id feel like an ass if i had multimillionaire money and spent 12K on that instead of like, giving it away
I will happily watch it on illegal and ad-free streams. Will also be proselytizing this strategy among everyone I know (as I always do, but extra now)
C/sports needs to have a sticky with the sites
broke: we all buy things to stimulate the economy
woke: only the wealthy buy things to stimulate the economy
trickledown economics but its billionaires distirbuting $2000 a piece to multimillionaires
woooooooo the people's sport
I went to South American recently and people were like, “World Cup 2026 in the US!” And my response was, “Yeah, sorry about that.”
Pure poetry
At this rate by the year 2100 - World Cup opening tickets will start out at $20,000,000.
*I did not do the math.
My cousin was sort of arguing with me about not going to a game but like it’s expensive af. He went to Russia in 2018 for a group stage game but I’m sure all of that travel and match tickets were way cheaper
Can't wait for the US to not at all get the Qatar treatment from foreign journalists, even though it really should