Harvard ticket update

[RedAR]

I just visited the Harvard Athletics ticket office in person, and discovered an interesting little bit of information.

1.  Tickets go on sale on Monday (Oct. 6)
2.  If anyone wants to buy tickets to the Cornell game before the Princeton game (including Harvard students), they will have to buy the package.
3.  After the Princeton game, Harvard students, with proper ID, will be able to purchase up to 4 tickets.

Now that I think of it, I didn't ask for the price for a single ticket, but I imagine that since it will be offered only to the Harvard community, it won't be outrageous.

[Pete]

Just to clarify, does this mean that after the Princeton game, only people with a Harvard ID can buy tickets to the Cornell game?

[Robin]

and what about Harvard alumni?

[crodger1]

I just talked to RedAR, and yes, that seemed to be what the guy was telling him (the guy had to ask his supervisor).

Frankly it is all supremely frustrating.  I almost have a mind to encourage no Cornell attendance at Harvard at all, but sadly I think it would be too difficult to enforce and might be a bit of a downer for the CU team.  Seems like the second time this year die-hard CU fans have gotten the wrong end of the stick.

[Keith K \'93]

Seems to me like Cornell folks with Harvard IDs ought to offer to buy tickets for other Cornellians...

[Lenny]

I like Keith's Idea.
However, according to the guy tickets for the general public will go onsale after they are available to Harvaaad affiliates "if there are any left"... doesn't sound too promising, although I thought no one at Haaavaad likes Hockey.

Any ideas?
Lenny

[jason]

Does anyone know when Harvard will begin selling their allotment of tickets to the Cornell-Harvard game at Lynah?
--Jason

[Drew]

I stopped in to talk to the Ticket Office late last week and they said that they should get their allotment by the third to fourth week of October.  He did not say how many they would have, but I think that when I got tickets from them last year they had around 50.  Hope to see everyone at Harvard.

[David Harding \'72]

Another cheap ticket trick:
If you tried last week to buy a ticket to the playoffs on the Florida Marlins web site, you were told that they were available.  When you typed in your address as Chicago, the message came back, "Yes, we have tickets, but we're not going to sell them to you."  The Marlins acknowledged that they had been watching the Chicago-Atlanta series where the Cubs fans dominated in Atlanta as well as in Chicago.  In fact, they were only selling to south Florida ZIP codes.

[gtsully]

David Harding '72 wrote:

Another cheap ticket trick:
If you tried last week to buy a ticket to the playoffs on the Florida Marlins web site, you were told that they were available.  When you typed in your address as Chicago, the message came back, "Yes, we have tickets, but we're not going to sell them to you."  The Marlins acknowledged that they had been watching the Chicago-Atlanta series where the Cubs fans dominated in Atlanta as well as in Chicago.  In fact, they were only selling to south Florida ZIP codes.

Didn't the Dallas Mavericks do the same thing to the Spurs fans in the NBA playoffs last year?  If you ordered from a San Antonio address/zip code, they wouldn't sell you tickets.  Doesn't make it right, but I guess it's becoming a common practice.

[Jordan 04]

Zip code restrictions are nothing new for playoff games in professional sports.  It's been going on for a number of year now.

[David Harding \'72]

[q]Zip code restrictions are nothing new for playoff games in professional sports. It's been going on for a number of year now.
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Chicago fans were surprised, not having had to deal with the experience for a few years.:`(