ticket report

[A-19]

i was told that the upper level seating (208-210) was for students. most of the line in front of us at 9AM was constituted of alumni/townies who were sold the bottom corresponding sections, 107 etc, right under us. i think that's some real BS that students get shoved up near the rafters and adults are right by the ice. they tried to make us feel better by saying that "we would be near the band" (211). regardless, we'll be there, and be as loud as possible (sec 210, row 7)

-mike '04

[schoaff]

[Q] i was told that the upper level seating (208-210) was for students. most of the line in front of us at 9AM was constituted of alumni/townies who were sold the bottom corresponding sections, 107 etc, right under us. [/Q]

That's too bad, especially since there are lots of us ancient types who'd prefer to sit in the upper deck.

The best seat I ever had to a sporting event was an upper deck seat at the old Boston Garden. I went there for an indoor lacross game with lots of Syracuse and Cornell alumni on the teams. When the ticket guy asked me what type of seat I wanted I asked for a single seat near the front of the upper balcony. He got a gleam in his eye and said "I've got just the seat for you".

The "seat" was in this little box hanging off the front of the upper deck (and those who remember the gold Garden know how close that was). The only downside was I was sitting next to the two television announcers and had their key lights shining in my eyes while they did their live halftime report. That was a *fun* seat.

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Goalie... Sieve... Cookie!

[ugarte]

I spent two years sitting in the front row of G, and have had my share of field box tickets.  But the best seats I ever had were the front row of the upper deck at center ice for the very depressing ECAC semis game againt RPI in 1990.  Close second was when I had virtually the same seats for a Copa Libertadores game in Bogota between Nacional and Millonarios.

If you think Lynah is rowdy . . . they were shooting off Roman Candles in the stands.  And chants. . . the crowd kept calling the Nacional goalie, Higuita a "son of a whore." ("Higuita, Higuita, hijo de puta" (repeat until tired) And I thought "sieve" was harsh.

As for the upper deck - I think that they have reserved those seats for the school allotment, but there will probably be plenty of seats if you want to sit up top.



Post Edited (03-18-03 14:55)

[Al DeFlorio]

Peter Schoaff wrote:

...those who remember the gold Garden...

Freudian, eh, Peter.;-)

Those were fabulous seats.  The "gold" Gahden had its share of simply awful seats, but the good ones were really good.

[Andy Wallenstein \'86]

[Q]i was told that the upper level seating (208-210) was for students. most of the line in front of us at 9AM was constituted of alumni/townies who were sold the bottom corresponding sections, 107 etc, right under us. i think that's some real BS that students get shoved up near the rafters and adults are right by the ice.[/Q]

I think there may be some confusion about this. Cornell Hockey Association Members (and yes, students are eligible to join, at a reduced rate, if I recall correctly) were allowed to sign up to be put on a list for tickets. I expect it was these folks who you saw getting the lower level seats.

There was some confusion with respect to my being on the list or not, and until I could straighten that out, the ticket office was trying to sell me a ticket in section 208 as well, despite the fact that I am not a student. So I really don't think they were herding the students into the upper deck as standard practice.
                            Andy W. '86

[jbeaber1998]

Bizarre question here.  So, a bunch of us are in section 124, a corner, that is not Cornell, actually across the arena from Cornell.  Any ideas on whose section that is and if they have a ticket forum where we can try to find a trade or soemthing?  Hopefully we can just sneak over into the Cornell section, but just in case....

-J

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]There was some confusion with respect to my being on the list or not, and until I could straighten that out, the ticket office was trying to sell me a ticket in section 208 as well, despite the fact that I am not a student. So I really don't think they were herding the students into the upper deck as standard practice.[/Q]
I'm a student member of the CHA, and when someone picked up the tickets that were under my/her name, they gave us 208. Oh well, still the general Cornell area.

[Melissa\'01]

ok. so apparently I am anal cause the tix arrived in the mail today .... in PLENTY of time. We have tix in 210 for fri and 206 for sat.

[REDhead]

Yup, 124 is diagonally across from the CU section....seating for the 4th seed is supposed to be sections 122, 123...so, Brown.  Harvard(sucks) is supposed to be sec 102-103, same side as us but to the right, and directly across from us should be Dartmouth in 117-118.