I am working on some pricing with my local t-shirt guy but have no slogan ideas of my own (see http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2008/12/11/690130/we-need-a-t-shirt-design) .

As my ticket, I braced myself and ate up a $300 tic from StubHub and will be in section 21L row 35.

We should have an announcement on T-Shirts very shortly.

So I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn’t be going to the Rose Bowl. My wife (she’s hot) and I are going to Europe next summer and really need to save the money, especially since I’ve been in grad school the last two years. For us to go was just getting to be too much.

But then yesterday my wife told me I should just go. I have friends with a hotel room that I wouldn’t have to pay for, and I’ll find out Monday if I can get a ticket for $157. If not, Stub Hub has singles for about $200-220.

Negatives:

A. It’s a lot of freaking travel for basically two days (I’d probably go from the 31st to the 2nd). I’d have to drive to DC/Philly/Bmore from State College to fly. The cheapest I’ve seen is out of Dulles. I wouldn’t mind this too much but last weekend I made that drive and it took 8 hours to get back to SC b/c the roads were so icy. Then throw in the flight to Cali and back.
B. Money. So the tickets are from $157 to $220, a flight will be about $500. Throw in parking at Dulles, the gas to get from SC to DC and back, going out on New Year’s, cab rides to and from the LA airport, money for food and drinks and it gets a little ridiculous for a day and a half in LA.
C. I might have to sit by myself at the game. I could handle that if I was in the PSU section, but if I’m surrounded by USC fans I’m going to be miserable if we lose, and won’t have as much fun if we win.

Positives:
A. It’s the mutha fucking Rose Bowl. Against USC.

So, I don’t know. Thoughts BSD nation?

The father of my friend who couldn’t go wound up getting tickets, and is gonna sell them to me for face, woohoo!!

My parents are letting me use their frequent flyer miles to fly me and the gf out to LA (I just have to find out how to appease the boss, since I’m gonna have to take an extra 2 days off, and fly back on the following Tuesday).

My cousin lives in Pasadena and offered to let me and the girl stay at her place, and use her car to get around!

Drinks etc out there are gonna be ridiculously expensive though, and considering I don’t have enough $$ right now to pay rent + electricity + heat (and not even mentioning the credit card) I’m gonna be squirming a bit. Oh well, ROSE BOWL BABY!!!!!

Just booked it! F-ing crazy. I’m going to literally be in LA for 36 hours.

is the only time I dont mind being traped in SF! I’m glad I get to drive down instead of fly. See you there!

Saw people getting knocked down and massive body crushing when they opened the doors of BJC. But at least the line is inside and its warm.

I just realized i have someones blood on my pants

Gate N Tunnel 13 Row 70 seats 106 & 107

Anyone know what type of seats I will get since I ordered mine through the alumni bowl trip?

I’ve been a student at UPark since Fall 04 and I’m graduating in a week. Every time I’ve ever tried to buy student tickets for some away event, I’m amazed at what a crappy job the athletic ticket office does in organizing the sale and think it couldn’t get any worse. The Rose Bowl student ticket sale was easily the most unprofessional, disorganized ticket distribution I have ever seen in my life.

The setup was brilliant – prevent everyone from camping out by not releasing the location of the sale until 1.5 hours before the sale. And once the location was released, yeah it was kinda chaotic getting to the BJC, but everyone lined up outside the ticket booth in an orderly fashion and everything was good to go. Then some genius had the idea to move the line inside.

Within about 3 seconds, the line turned into a mob/riot. All 1000+ people that were lined up were trying to squeeze through 2 doors to get into the BJC. I tripped over some kid’s bike, and for about 10 seconds, visions of the Nassau County Walmart on Black Friday were going through my head. Finally my friend cleared enough room for me to stand up, and after pushing and shoving for close to a minute we got inside, but we had gone from the first 300 in line to the last 300. One of our friends was farther up in line, who we-rejoined, but we were still at least 300 people farther back than we were in the original line.

We thought the worst was over, but the “line” inside progressively turned more and more into a shoving/pushing mass of people over the next hour. The police were pissed off that the athletic ticket office hadn’t followed their advice about how to run the ticket distribution, and so out of protest, did nothing to try to control the crowd. There were no stantions in place. Nothing to organize or control the line. Only police who passively watched and BJC employees with an average age of 65 that were completely ineffective at controlling anything. I finally did get tickets, but I guarantee you that there were people around me in the initial line that did not.

I am amazed and disgusted that the planning for that could have been so poor. If you were able to get tickets another way, be glad you did.

Anyone have any clever ways we can make money along the way? If we put some huge BSD ads on the side of our car, will BSD sponser our trip?
Also, if we drive, we would be able to bring Yuengling, which is a huge plus!

Also, does anyone have 2 extra tix they’d be willing to sell for face value?

I just saw on College GameDay that the Humanitarian Bowl on 1/30 with Maryland vs. Nevada has sold 24 tickets. Yeah, you read that right. 24 tickets…. ohmygawd… lol

I got 2 tickets for the game. I’m selling them. Section 12, row 65, seats 25/26. Selling for what i paid for them ($320).

So glad you get to go.

I picked up a pair of tickets thinking my boys from back east would be coming out for a week long, beer soaked new year, obviously culminating with a proud victory in The Grandaddy. Well, one of them ended up with an $800 fine to pay, so they all decided that they won’t be making the trek. Shitty is right. Now here I sit with 2 tickets (something about Tunnel 13, Row 42…don’t have them in my hands yet) and no one to ride shotgun.

Obviously, I can’t NOT go. It’s a short drive and I’ve been a PSU fan since I could breathe. I’m still trying to hunt down some people who might be interested in going, but I’m slowly scraping the bottom of the barrel. The wife offered to tag along, but I’m really not in the position to be dropping over $300 on tickets.

So…if you’re down here and need a single ticket for face ($165) and want to roll to the game with me, let me know. I plan on leaving as early as possible on 1/1 and tailgating my ass off, fwiw.