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James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer
and amongst other things lived in a tent outdoors for 7 years.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i
with his best friend and spiritual adviser Ivanka-Obama, The Bipartisan Dog!
Above photo James "Kimo" Rosen, publisher of this blog with Buffalo Bills QB,
Doug Flutie on the sidelines of Aloha stadium at the 1998 Pro-Bowl
 
"Another Gorgeous sunrise in Kapaa"
(The photo made it to Hawaii News Now!)
Tuesday-03-26-19
Photo courtesy,
James "Kimo" Rosen
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Publishers note;
Aloha Readers,
It is a disgrace what recently happened when tickets went on sale for a pre-season NFL game featuring the LA Rams vs. the Dallas Cowboys at Aloha stadium in
Honolulu. This hasn't happened in 26 years and was an opportunity for families and our youth to see a real NFL game and also an opportunity for the
LA Rams to help rebrand themselves after a move from St. Louis to Los Angeles looking for a new fan base around the country.
Hawaii residents were excited to be able to see a real-life NFL game, even though it's pre-season, you'd never know it by the response.
What happened to all those reasonable tickets being sold at $30.00 each is criminal, disgusting and disgraceful. Scalpers within hours bought out the whole stadium and now some tickets are reselling for as high as $5,000 per ticket. Remember this is pre-season, not regular season, not the playoffs, not the Super-Bowl.
All I can say to the scalpers is karma is a bitch and an expression I hate to say but, "Shame on you!"
James "Kimo" Rosen
Publisher/Blogger-n-chief~dakinetalk blog
Dallas's QB, Dak Prescott, and LA Ram's QB, Jared Goff, will see very little, to no action.
2 press passes as long as we wrote a story and had it published! At the same time, Aloha airlines and Outrigger resorts were advertiser clients, therefore we had advertising contracts we used in contra- trade to cover airfare and lodging for the annual sojourn and business expense.
even though thousands of miles away from the closest competitor. If nothing else, it's time to bring the Pro-Bowl back permanently to Hawaii!
a meaningless game.
For all those who just paid $5,000 for a ticket, I've got some awesome timeshares for sale, and some swamp land in Florida you may be interested in...
This blog also appeared as guest column in the April 8, 2019 edition of the Garden Island news!
https://www.thegardenisland.com/2019/04/08/opinion/hawaii-is-jonesing-for-an-nfl-franchise/
Aloha Readers,
Honolulu. This hasn't happened in 26 years and was an opportunity for families and our youth to see a real NFL game and also an opportunity for the
Hawaii residents were excited to be able to see a real-life NFL game, even though it's pre-season, you'd never know it by the response.
What happened to all those reasonable tickets being sold at $30.00 each is criminal, disgusting and disgraceful. Scalpers within hours bought out the whole stadium and now some tickets are reselling for as high as $5,000 per ticket. Remember this is pre-season, not regular season, not the playoffs, not the Super-Bowl.
All I can say to the scalpers is karma is a bitch and an expression I hate to say but, "Shame on you!"
James "Kimo" Rosen
Publisher/Blogger-n-chief~dakinetalk blog
Hawaii is jonesing for an NFL franchise
Blog #2035~Kimo's world's #282
Stop the madness
It's been reported that tickets for the pre-season NFL football game between the Los Angeles
Rams and Dallas Cowboys at Aloha Stadium on Saturday, August 17th are going for as high as 5,000.00 a ticket. Tickets originally listed as $30.00 per seat were scooped up by scalpers after only being on the market for a few hours. It's really a shame this practice is accepted.
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Spoiler alert, this is not a playoff game or the Super-bowl, it's pre-season where many of the elite starters will not even play in fear they may be injured for the start of the regular-season.
There's a good chance the stars of both teams,
I always preferred the Pro-Bowl when it was in Hawaii. the Pro-bowl has the best of the best. I find it ironic that Pro-bowl tickets are always dirt cheap. People say, they don't play hard, but you see the stars. Last pro bowl I went to, tickets sold for under $20.00 each.
Before moving to Hawaii when I was the publisher of Alaska People magazine, we used
to get press passes to the Pro Bowl and take a yearly pilgrimage to write a short story and photograph the event for the magazine. The theme of the story was always since Alaska like Hawaii did not have a NFL team of their own, and since Honolulu was only a 5-hour non-stop flight from Anchorage---we billed it as Alaska's largest suburb hosts Pro-bowl.
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| Kimo Rosen and Buffalo Bills QB, Doug Flutie on the sidelines of Aloha stadium at the 1998 Pro-Bowl |
The NFL always granted us
NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell needs to take heed, Hawaii residents are crazy enough to pay 5-K for a pre-season ticket. Hawaii is prime for an NFL franchise
Hawaii needs an NFL franchise, along with a power ball lottery... I know, If I don't like it here, I can move.
I am not asking for me, I am asking for the state, for the revenue it will bring.
I sit here scratching my head, as people are crazy enough to pay $5,000.00 for a pre-season ticket to
For all those who just paid $5,000 for a ticket, I've got some awesome timeshares for sale, and some swamp land in Florida you may be interested in...
This blog also appeared as guest column in the April 8, 2019 edition of the Garden Island news!
https://www.thegardenisland.com/2019/04/08/opinion/hawaii-is-jonesing-for-an-nfl-franchise/
More dakinetalk reading;
No more Aloha spirit in Pro-Bowl
The best part of Super Bowl 50
Hana Hou,(Encore)
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5 comments:
Hawaii is too far away from the other franchised NFL teams for away games. The East coast teams would have an 8-10 hour flight each way, that's a non-stop charter with no connections. Away teams would be exhausted, not to mention Hawaii having to travel for away games would make it difficult, although I love the idea, it's not practical. By all means, bring back the Pro-bowl.
billyjoebob April 8, 2019 5:40 am Reply
Went to one ProBowl with Mrs. BJB and it was awful. Lousy game, food and facilities were very poor ( that’s being kind ). I have been to many major venues around the states and this was by far the worst. It was a major issue getting in due to having a day pack for the travel. Best part was watching the ” altercation ” a few rows down and then the taxi ride to the airport was very good.
Kauaidoug April 8, 2019 7:05 am Reply
So does that mean millionsbof dollars will be spent to subsidize a for profit organization? Funny, when Oahu/Honolulu come up in conversations with tourist I meet they never say “Honolulu really needs a pro football team”. It’s ” wow they have a real problem with homeless”. Priorities…
Been saying for years the #ProBowl should return to Hawaii...smh #FigureItOutGoodell
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Donald Klees
Donald Klees The greed ALWAYS creates the need so expect to see lots of empty seats unless they get real about the pricing.
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Becky Kerbow
Becky Kerbow its terrible!!!
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Rick Meyer
Rick Meyer I think you'll see some pretty great deals on game day
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LB Labanon
LB Labanon After Bruno Mars tickets went sky high. This was expected. And it will continue. For the the next big event. So no end in sight for sure
Craig Millett April 9, 2019 9:03 am Reply
Yet another item on “Kimo’s” goofy wish list.
I saw a Vampire once April 9, 2019 10:50 am Reply
This game is a hype. Probably 30,000 fans. Not much. I’ll be there, working. It’s a pt job. No big deal. You get jobs like this from temp agencies.
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