The sellout streak is driven by the Red Sox's loyal fan base, the success of the Red Sox during this time ( a winning record over nine seasons, during which time the team achieved at least 90 wins seven times, six playoff appearances and two World Series Championships ), and Fenway Park's low capacity: fourth lowest in seating capacity and second lowest in total of all MLB stadiums ; it is one of the seven MLB ballparks that cannot accommodate at least 40, 000 spectators.

That season, the team started their famous sellout streak which would continue until the team moved into the Rose Garden in 1995.

They currently hold the NCAA record for the most consecutive sold out home games ; the sellout streak dates back to November 3, 1962.

In 2007 the Chick-fil-A Bowl became the best-attended non-BCS bowl for the last decade, and had the 3rd longest bowl sellout streak behind the Rose and Fiesta Bowls.

The sellout streak is the longest across all professional sports in the U. S. passing the previous record set by the Portland Trail Blazers from 1977 – 1995.

The Dragons continued their sellout streak throughout 2012 and finished the season with their 913th straight sold-out game.

" This honor came during a year in which they set the all-time professional sports sellout streak of 815 ( they finished the season at 843 consecutive sellouts ); finished 1st in the Midwest League Eastern Division and had the overall best Midwest League record (. 593 ); set franchise records for wins ( 83 – 57 ), wins in a half ( 48 – 22 during the second half, which was also the best record among the 80 teams in the seven full-season Minor League Baseball leagues that split their seasons ), road wins ( 38 ), and wins in a month ( 22 in August ); set franchise records for team ERA ( 3. 39 ) and shutout wins ( 14 ); set a Midwest League pitching record for strikeouts ( 1, 292 ); and set a franchise record for stolen bases ( 224, including 103 by shortstop Billy Hamilton, which was the 9th highest total ever for a Minor Leaguer ).

The Chill's 83-game sellout streak beginning in early January 1992 still stands as a minor league hockey record today.

* The Dayton Dragons ' series of 815 consecutive sellouts surpassed the Portland Trail Blazers for the longest sellout streak across all professional sports in the U. S.

The sellout streak ended in September 2008 partially due to the economic downturn, though the major factor in ticket sales was the impact of Tropical Storm Hanna.

The outcome of the polling was overwhelmingly in favor of expansion while maintaining the sellout streak.

The Seattle Times reported that a " new standard for attendance and game-day atmosphere has been set " due to the loud sellout crowds.

On July 9, 2011, the Dragons officially set a new record of 815 consecutive sellout games.

By 1979, the Mint anticipated an eventual sellout for the silver proof set, but admitted that with massive quantities unsold, there was no realistic possibility of selling all uncirculated silver sets.

However, the highest attendance for any event at the stadium was set on September 25, 2009, when a Dave Matthews Band concert brought in a sellout crowd of 17, 646.

The Colorado Eagles established a new standard for minor league professional hockey with their 145th consecutive regular season sellout, set on January 12, 2008 in a victory vs. rival Rocky Mountain Rage.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Then in February 2007, Suntory Sungoliath again lost the final of the Top League and Microsoft Cup to Toshiba Brave Lupus before a crowd of 23, 076 at Tokyo's Chichibunomiya Stadium ( home to Mark Secker ), the first sellout at the ground in 10 years, with the final score being just 14-13 to Toshiba Brave Lupus.

The Indians retired the number 455 in honor of the sellout record.

The band embarked on another sell-out tour that November, and Busted gained a record of the band to play the most consecutive sellout dates at Wembley Arena, eleven nights.

For a team that was the first in the ECHL to reach 30 wins that season ( in a 5 – 3 victory over the Reading Royals in front of a record sellout crowd of 10, 570 ), the first round defeat was disappointing to players and fans alike.

On December 6, 2000, music legend Tina Turner played her last concert at the arena for the record breaking Twenty Four Seven Tour, but after popular demand, Turner returned to the arena before a sellout crowd on October 14, 2008, for her Tina!

On September 26, 2009, a Memorial Stadium record crowd of 86, 304 watched Nebraska play Louisiana-Lafayette on its 300th consecutive sellout.

The 2001 – 02 season was a great season for the Mavericks, with a 57 – 25 record and many sellout crowds in the American Airlines Center.

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Series 2 of the Steps Reunion titled " Steps: On the Road Again " aired on Sky Living in April 2012 ; the series followed the band as they embarked on their sellout 22-date UK tour.

That show was a sellout success ; in 1993, he made his television debut as one of the writers and performers on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

On May 26, 2003, the RailCats played their inaugural home opener in the new ballpark with a sellout crowd of, with 7, 089 people in attendance ; the first pitch was thrown at 3: 28 pm Eastern Standard Time.

A sellout crowd of 5, 746 and 140 reporters from around the world were present, partly because the major leagues were on strike at the time ; the players voted against an offer to resume the game at Fenway Park to avoid crossing the picket line.

For the remainder of 1994 Shampoo did well, finding fans in both the mainstream and alternative music scenes-boosted in part by their links to Manic Street Preachers fanscene ; however they also drew scathing comment from those within the small UK Riot Grrrl scene who saw the band as a repeat of We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use Its " sellout " to commercialism-future artist Lucy McKenzie ( then in the short lived Riot Grrrl band ' Batfink ') wrote scathingly in her schoolgirl fanzine Poppy / Violet that " Shampoo = Miss June And July Of The Paedophile Calendar ".

Peter O ' Toole and Frances Tomelty took the leads in a production ( by Bryan Forbes ) that was publicly disowned by Timothy West, artistic director of the theatre, before opening night, despite being a sellout because of its notoriety.

The attendance for the game was a sellout crowd of 70, 003.

Under the NFL's unconditional blackout rules at the time, the Super Bowl could not be broadcast locally even if the local team did not advance to the Super Bowl, and it was a sellout.

When the Treaty of Versailles confirmed the Japanese claim to Shandong and Beijing's sellout became public, internal reaction was shattering.

The President of the Republic, Éamon de Valera, realising that a republic was not on offer, decided not to be a part of the treaty delegation and so be tainted by more militant republicans as a " sellout ".

After gaining a television program on a Spanish-language station, and turning preliminary wrestler Lou Albano as a manager for Sammartino's heel opponents, the WWWF was doing sellout business by 1970.

Reportedly, every performance was a sellout.

Hammer was later considered a sellout due in part to overexposure as an entertainer ( having live instrumentation / bands, choreographed dance routines and an impact on popular culture being regularly referenced on television and in music ) and as a result of being too " commercial " when rap was " hardcore " at one point, then his image later becoming increasingly " gritty " to once again adapt to the ever-changing landscape of rap.

The final game at " The Coop " was played on September 1, 2008 in front of a sellout crowd of 16, 777.

This area was curtained off except during the postseason or on occasions when a sellout was anticipated.

* Since opening the doors of the Xcel Energy Center on September 29, 2000, the Wild had a sellout for every single game, which was finally broken on October 16, 2010 ( totaling 400 consecutive home games as of March 8, 2010 ).

However, this strong talent was expensive, and difficult to make up even with sellout crowds at little Minersville Park.

The gag even pushed toward a boxing match between the two comedians and the promised event was a sellout.

The year 2007 was the centennial performance as the Class of 2009 presented " Joseph Martin and the Amazing Technicolor White Coat " to sellout crowds at Roxbury Community College on February 22, 23, and 24.

The 2010 game was a sellout, the fourteenth consecutive year as such.

The game was a near sellout with over 30, 000 fans in attendance.

The idea behind the paleo turn was to decry ideological sellout, not follow some ambitious politician down the same road!

Despite the fact that the club is meant to be a non-violent environment, on May 7, 1994, audience members attacked former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, claiming he was a sellout ( per club rules, Biafra had never signed to a major label ).

During the argument, the man pushed Jello to the floor and five or six friends of Cretin assaulted Biafra while he was down, yelling " sellout rock star, kick him ".

The 2004 event, featuring a reunion of the Pixies, as well as Radiohead, Kraftwerk, The Cure and a number of other major bands, was the event's first sellout, with 50, 000 tickets sold for each Saturday and Sunday.