Wisconsin tickets sold?

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:23 am

BGSU33 wrote:
UK Peregrine wrote:From the Wisconsin State Journal today:

"Bowling Green officials are hoping for a crowd in excess of 30,000 at Cleveland Browns Stadium, but acknowledge it will take good walk-up sales the day of the game to reach that total."

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/ ... ntid=96967
With bad weather possibly looming, walk-up sales might be low. If we don't get more than 30,000 for this game, it will be a shame that we didn't play this game in the Doyt where we "could" have packed it.

You can count myself & my friends among the walkup crowd. We've yet to get a definite total on who's going with us. We've got 3 definites and 2 maybes still. I wanted to get tix ahead of time, but we'll just grab 'em at the gate.

BigAppleBucky · Post by **BigAppleBucky** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:00 am

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:I asked this question in another thread on the Badger board. They said a lot of the fans have soured on buying tickets through the school so a lot of them scalp, walk up, or buy club seats through another source. They are confident they will bring over 10,000 to Cleveland.

The Wisconsin ATO somehow manages to acquire the very worst seats in whatever venue the Badgers visit.

Badgers fans have learned some harsh lessons over the years.

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:21 am

http://www.bgnews.com/media/storage/pap ... bgnews.com

jpfalcon09 · Post by **jpfalcon09** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:09 am

Certainly an interesting twist on things...I have a feeling with the poor weather that the walk-up crowd is going to be very poor, if not non-existant. If only 25,000-30,000 show up, BG will have learned their lesson and should have just used the Doyt for this game...remains to be seen how the turnout is.

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:13 am

jpfalcon09 wrote:Certainly an interesting twist on things...I have a feeling with the poor weather that the walk-up crowd is going to be very poor, if not non-existant. If only 25,000-30,000 show up, BG will have learned their lesson and should have just used the Doyt for this game...remains to be seen how the turnout is.

Would Wisconsin really have played a game at the Doyt? I have always assumed that a big driver for the game being in Cleveland was that Wisconsin didn't really want to play a true road game. I certainly don't know for sure, but that is the assumption that I was going under.

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 11:22 am

[quote="UK Peregrine"]From the Wisconsin State Journal today:

"Bowling Green officials are hoping for a crowd in excess of 30,000 at Cleveland Browns Stadium, but acknowledge it will take good walk-up sales the day of the game to reach that total."

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/ ... ntid=96967[/q
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Unfortunately, Greg Christopher basically acknowledged this last nite at the Bratenahl function... they're hoping for a big walkup crowd, but the weather reports early on aren't encouraging...While the GAME itself looks like it'll be relatively dry, the tailgating looks like it'll be a bit on the damp side right now.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:30 pm

BigAppleBucky wrote:
Jacobs4Heisman wrote:I asked this question in another thread on the Badger board. They said a lot of the fans have soured on buying tickets through the school so a lot of them scalp, walk up, or buy club seats through another source. They are confident they will bring over 10,000 to Cleveland.
The Wisconsin ATO somehow manages to acquire the very worst seats in whatever venue the Badgers visit.

Badgers fans have learned some harsh lessons over the years.

You guys had prime seats for this one: One whole side of the stadium. You could have bought seats right on the 50 through your school, I believe.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:33 pm

If they've sold 25,000 seats (per the BG News), that's good. I would think they'd get a walk up of 5,000-plus. Don't y'all?

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:57 pm

I know I am walking up just to avoid the Tickemaster charges.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:52 pm

UW is more of a household name than BGSU. They attract a whole state whereas BGSU's fan base consists more of hometown fans and alumnus.

Using an impressive word like "whereas", then f'ing up the plural of "alumnus". Hmmm...

But yeah, Schad... I'd think they should get 5K walk-up.

BGSUfalcons · Post by **BGSUfalcons** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:02 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:If they've sold 25,000 seats (per the BG News), that's good. I would think they'd get a walk up of 5,000-plus. Don't y'all?

Don't forget the 3,000 that Wisconsin has sold. If the Wisconsin fans are correct in saying that they will have a decent number of walk up sales, it seems that 30,000 will be no problem.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:27 am

BGSUfalcons wrote:
Schadenfreude wrote:If they've sold 25,000 seats (per the BG News), that's good. I would think they'd get a walk up of 5,000-plus. Don't y'all?
Don't forget the 3,000 that Wisconsin has sold. If the Wisconsin fans are correct in saying that they will have a decent number of walk up sales, it seems that 30,000 will be no problem.

I'm assuming that if BGSU is saying 25,000 or 26,000, that includes the 3,000 from Wisconsin. But your point is sound. Perhaps Wisconsin fans will walk up in decent numbers.

Damn, it's chilly this morning.

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