We care a lot in SEC country. How much? In Florida’s case, that’s $4,424 worth of concern, to be specific, a whopping average of $632 a game for guaranteed seats to the contest for the calendar year 2008.
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SEC Tickets Are Outrageous ... We Don’t Care
↵↵The number is huge, but is a bit misleading for a few reasons. First, face value tickets are available for games at forty bucks, if you like living dangerously and are open to the idea of sandwiching into the Copper Monkey across the street to watch the game. This is mostly theory, of course: you’ll be paying anywhere from fifty to a hundred to get into the game depending on how much flesh you’re willing to trade for ticket outside the Swamp.↵
↵↵Second, the prices for Florida tickets should be higher, since one entire side of the stadium is reserved for Florida’s huge student body, which at 51K+ is topped only by THE Ohio State University for size, and is the largest in the SEC.↵
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↵↵Oh, you played lacrosse on the Williams college team? That’s quaint. I’m sure the comraderie and warm memory of those days keeps you warm on cold nights. In the SEC, we want mutant professional athletes on the cheap; in exchange, we make them huge, worship them, give them women and money, and then put them on display in huge stadiums filled with drunk, raging fans.↵
↵↵If you asked Florida fans -- or the Georgia fans who paid $10,561 for new season tickets this year -- if they would pay fifty more dollars, they would. A hundred? Again, probably yes. The demand for tickets is seemingly inelastic for programs like Georgia and Florida, and the root of that inelasticity is a heady brew of high expectations for the year, limited seats, and sheer mania.↵
↵↵In other words, you: for shame, SEC! Me and every other SEC fan on the planet: Whatever, like I needed that kidney anyway. Gimme.↵
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