I'd like to know why the organizers of the Grey Cup this year (BC Lions) are taking so long so to mail out tickets and sign/announce the Grey Cup half-time act. At this time last year I had my Grey Cup tickets in hand and I knew who the half-time act was.
Is there a reason for waiting so long to mail tickets? Is it to try and limit online scalping?
Are they having trouble booking a decent half-time act? Or are they waiting to see if the Lions host a playoff home game and they wait to accounce it during the playoff home game? Nickelback has their new album coming out on November 22nd. Performing at half-time during Grey Cup would be a great way to promote their new album.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the ticket delay was due to the possibility of a strike at BC Place. Now that a tentative agreement has been reached I suspect tickets will be in the mail shortly (or already are).
I’ll also suggest that some of the other delays were also due to the potential of a strike… the organizing committee appeared to have a lot more questions than answers there for a while.
Just a hunch, but I think it'll be a fairly big name act appearing. First, Vancouver's a fairly large CFL market that wants to put on a big, memorable, "raise the bar" Grey Cup. Second, entertainment mogul and uber agent Bruce Allen is on the Grey Cup committee. His office phone's speed dial reaches far and wide, and he has quite a lot of influence.
I'd be surprised if we see someone dredged up from the Grey Cup half-time show recyclotron of years past.
Put them back in the recyclotron where they belong. If I hear Hotel California one more time I’m going to destroy whatever device it is emanating from.