Sunday, October 15, 2006
Ann Arbor is a whore!
LOL - that was a common phrase on t-shirts won this weekend for the Penn State versus Michigan game.
Saturday was a big game. When I first accepted the job at Penn State, tickets for the Michigan game were selling for $300 on Ebay. This is a huge markup because the average student ticket costs $21 and the other tickets cost $46. I started the day like most people without tickets but around noon, I went shopping with a few of my students so we could buy supplies for our Casino Night program on Sunday. Tom, one of the students, asked if we knew anyone that needed tickets because his uncle had a couple that they weren't using.
Now here is a little background on Tom - he's from a family of influence. Freshmen at Penn State are not allowed to have vehicles on campus without special permission - Tom has a car (a Mercedes Benz wagon no less). Tom's uncle has box seats for every game as well as several regular seats.
So I asked Tom how much he wanted to sell the tickets for and here is where the story starts getting good. He said face value of $46 each- finding tickets for this game at face value like a one in a million opportunity. And then it got better - the seats were on the 50 yard line in row 11! Of course, I told Tom I would take the tickets.
I called my colleague Bryan (think "Just Shoot Me") because I knew he had a friend in town who was a rotten, dirty Michigan fan but did not have tickets for the game so I offered him one of my tickets. I could have made a little profit here but I was just going to sell it for what I got. Bryan offered to buy both tickets and then to give me his ticket (which is in the nosebleed alumni section) for free. In the end I took it and figure I made out $46 to the positive because i got to go to the game and didn't pay a penny.
I watched the game with Jess (Bryan's wife) and had a blast. We had a white out for the game which was when everyone wore white - the student section was amazing in all white. The game was good - we lost but we held our own.
Saturday was a big game. When I first accepted the job at Penn State, tickets for the Michigan game were selling for $300 on Ebay. This is a huge markup because the average student ticket costs $21 and the other tickets cost $46. I started the day like most people without tickets but around noon, I went shopping with a few of my students so we could buy supplies for our Casino Night program on Sunday. Tom, one of the students, asked if we knew anyone that needed tickets because his uncle had a couple that they weren't using.
Now here is a little background on Tom - he's from a family of influence. Freshmen at Penn State are not allowed to have vehicles on campus without special permission - Tom has a car (a Mercedes Benz wagon no less). Tom's uncle has box seats for every game as well as several regular seats.
So I asked Tom how much he wanted to sell the tickets for and here is where the story starts getting good. He said face value of $46 each- finding tickets for this game at face value like a one in a million opportunity. And then it got better - the seats were on the 50 yard line in row 11! Of course, I told Tom I would take the tickets.
I called my colleague Bryan (think "Just Shoot Me") because I knew he had a friend in town who was a rotten, dirty Michigan fan but did not have tickets for the game so I offered him one of my tickets. I could have made a little profit here but I was just going to sell it for what I got. Bryan offered to buy both tickets and then to give me his ticket (which is in the nosebleed alumni section) for free. In the end I took it and figure I made out $46 to the positive because i got to go to the game and didn't pay a penny.
I watched the game with Jess (Bryan's wife) and had a blast. We had a white out for the game which was when everyone wore white - the student section was amazing in all white. The game was good - we lost but we held our own.
# posted by Tracy @ 8:12 PM 
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