In one move the Flyers have decided they care more about squeezing money out of people and less about their fans (yes again). The Flyers like many other teams are nixing the goal judge, the old guy that sat behind the goal and pressed the button making the red light come on after a goal. Actually the goal judge, who really isn’t much of a judge anymore, will sit up in the press box watching I assume a monitor focused on the goal. This really doesn’t bother me. I would like to see them try to implement some sort of technology that would make the red light more automatic. Have some sort of chip, maybe RFID integrated into the puck and when it crosses the goal line the red light automatically goes off.

But anyway back to the annoying part. The Flyers in their wisdom have decided against putting in regular seats where the goalie judge box was, instead put in leather seats that are included in a midlevel suite package that would cost $225,000. You get both the Flyers and Sixers games.

I agree with Kristin, this is just wrong. The one nice thing about the club and luxury boxes is that they are separated from the fans. I am sure there are some fans in those boxes, but for the most part those are bought and paid for by businesses to schmooze their clients. By putting the schmoozers in with the fans and painting a bulls eye on them with the “special” seats and having a waitress trapes down thru out the game, it is just going to annoy the fans sitting in the area. Or you will have expensive seats paid for with no one in them to enjoy the game with the schmoozers either too busy to attend the game or up in the suite schmoozing.

Make the seats normal, like the rest in the area.