Handsome Pete
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There has been a lot of talk on here about scalping but nothing about what I think is the #1 source of Badger and Hawkeye fans in our stadium- business clients. Both Wisconsin and Iowa are pretty low-rent states with not much to offer college grads. Thus, Badger and Hawkeye grads overhwhelmingly wind up working in Minneapolis, Chicago, and to a lesser extent other midest cities. With so many Wisc and Iowa grads high up in business in these two cities, tickets are often exchanged as part of business-client entertaining. I personally know of 6 tickets that have already gone to Badger fans for the game next week because of this. I would bet a moderate amount of money that Northwestern and even Illinois games exhibit similar issues when Wisc or Iowa comes to town.
Do you consider this a major problem, or evidence of our dominance as a major city, positioned next to two garbage states with nothing to offer anyone?
EDIT: To make this even clearer, try to imagine a world in which UMN grads fled the state after graduation to work in Iowa and Wisconsin. If our grads were clogging Iowa City and Madison, their stadiums would be full of Gopher fans. Of course, we all know that no commerce goes on in Iowa City (or anywhere else in Iowa for that matter) and there is commerce going on in Madison or Milwaukee. There is no reason why UMN grads would move to these two states except in isolated, ad hoc instances.
Do you consider this a major problem, or evidence of our dominance as a major city, positioned next to two garbage states with nothing to offer anyone?
EDIT: To make this even clearer, try to imagine a world in which UMN grads fled the state after graduation to work in Iowa and Wisconsin. If our grads were clogging Iowa City and Madison, their stadiums would be full of Gopher fans. Of course, we all know that no commerce goes on in Iowa City (or anywhere else in Iowa for that matter) and there is commerce going on in Madison or Milwaukee. There is no reason why UMN grads would move to these two states except in isolated, ad hoc instances.