Buying Tickets Is A Privilege, Not A Right

New York Giants fans will have to shell out between $1000-$20,000 in personal seat licensing fees for season tickets in their new stadium.

This means you have to chunk down some cash before you even buy your tickets. The meeting where this was brought up must have been surreal:

Giants VP of Money Hording: We need to figure out a way to raise ticket prices without actually raising ticket prices. How do we do it?
Money Hording Analyst #1: We could increase the money we charge on all tickets.
Giants VP of Money Hording: That sounds a bit too similar to raising ticket prices.
Money Hording Analyst #2: Instead of raising ticket prices we could increase our advertising rates with our corporate sponsors.
Giants VP of Money Hording: You're fired. Get the hell out of here right now.
Money Hording Intern: What if we impose a large fee for the right to buy tickets?
Giants VP of Money Hording: So you're saying we take their money before we take their money? It's a two-stage money-taking process?
Money Hording Intern: I guess.
Silence. The Giants VP of Money Hording starts a slow clap.
Giants VP of Money Hording: You just saved the New York Giants, Intern! You just saved the Giants!
The Money Hording Intern is carrying out of the conference room on everybody's shoulders...