Stephen Happel Quotations

Basically, the NFL wants corporate America at the game. They use the ticket as a way to award their sponsors and others.

From a demographic point of view, you could not have more favorable consumption demographics than you do right now in the United States. I don't see how anybody can really screw this up.

I expect real GDP growth to be in the neighborhood of 4 percent this year.

Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.

I see a lot of Greenspan in this housing boom. He encouraged low interest rates.

You know what you're going to get when you go see Billy Joel. You know all the songs. It triggers memories.

We're such a free-market place that anything encouraging free markets helps us. Overall, he's been very good for Arizona.

Detroit's not a garden place in any way, shape or form. No laying by the pool or playing golf.

You've got two trends with this taking hold in the past four or five years.

Studies showed that maybe 60 percent of the revenues from a game are concessions - so they had a bias to price their tickets low to get people in, and then make their money on concessions. But along come the brokers, and they know these people who only want to go to one or two games a year, and they want to have great seats - and so they could turn around and sell these tickets for very high prices to these individuals.

The laws across the country have been loosened, by and large. Most states have backed off. The reason is that the problem that you're going to have is that there is always going to be a secondary market - and if you're going to try to stop it, you're going to have to pass more and more onerous laws.