[Husker] Big 12 CG - tickets to 57,000 Nebraska addresses?

[Mike Jaixen]

60K Husker fans probably was a reasonable guesstimate.

The comment about 57,000 tickets being sent to
Nebraska addresses was not, according to a story in
the World-Herald earlier this week.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=2288063



Earlier in the week,
--- Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:

> My impression from being there was that at least 75%
> of the fans were
> for NU, so nearly 60K doesn't sound unreasonable.
> 
> > I've been hearing stories about how Arrowhead will
> be almost all a sea of Nebraska red, with 57,000
> tickets sold to Nebraska addresses.  From what I can
> tell this was traced back to something said in a
> radio show, I think I heard it was Jim Rose?  And I
> don't believe it.
> >    
> >   Arrowhead holds about 80,000, right?  NU and OU
> get 8500 tickets each.  I imagine other schools get
> a handful, and some are distributed elsewhere by the
> Big 12, locals, Arrowhead officials, and so on.  I'd
> guess there's probably around 60,000 sold to the
> public as a whole.  Does anyone really believe that
> nearly every one of these went to a Nebraska
> address?  Not just to a Husker fan that might be
> living in the KC area or elsewhere out of state
> (where nobody can tell whose fans they are), but to
> actual Nebraska addresses?  Nobody from Texas got
> them after the OU-UT game?  No ticket scalpers got
> them, or all of the scalpers live in Omaha?  Heck,
> until a week or so ago you could still get them
> through Ticketmaster.
> >    
> >   I think whoever reported that number was either
> deliberately misleading or flat out lying.  And
> Husker fans are so eager to jump on stories about
> how great we travel that the story is being passed
> around as fact.  I see the alumni association is now
> claiming "The Big Eight’s hottest rivalry is back
> and more than 60,000 game tickets have been sold to
> Nebraska fans!" in its Husker Huddle email.
> >    
> >   I'll believe that we'll have a majority of the
> fans, perhaps overwhelmingly so.  But I don't think
> it will be anything like is being reported.


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


 
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