For Sale: Orange Bowl Tickets, $1 Each. Any Takers?

[underpants]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/94252-for-sale-orange-bowl-tickets-1-each-any-takers

Congratulations, BCS. You have outdone yourself. The Orange Bowl is an official flop, and it hasn't even played out yet.

The going rate for an Orange Bowl 50 yard line ticket is $181, but it's probably up for negotiation. The rest of the tickets are selling for far below the face value of $130-$240 per seat.

Some tickets are going for $1. That's O-N-E dollar, folks.

Want to sit in an executive suite? For $250, it's yours on StubHub.com. Want to sit in the upper deck? From $1 to $11 bucks, you can watch the Virginia Tech Hokies take on the Cincinnati Bearcats from the upper decks, because those seats at those prices still aren't selling.

Given that the demand for tickets drives tickets up or down, and given the way this economy is going, it is becoming more apparent than ever that the BCS has a big FUBAR on its hands. While you can blame the economy - after all, even the Championship Game's tickets are not selling at optimum prices - the reality is, the Orange Bowl bites.

[trumad]

1. In your dreams....

Are you telling me that Oklahoma and Florida is not selling because if you are you're full of ---uh beans.

[underpants]

2. I think that was editorializing by the writer but you CAN see the game in 3D

http://www.mlive.com/grpress/sports/index.ssf/2008/12/celebration_cinema_north_to_sh.html

Celebration Cinema North to show 3-D BCS game
by Michael Zuidema | The Grand Rapids Press
Friday December 19, 2008, 2:27 PM

3-D movies have come a long way from the days of those flimsy cardboard glasses that had a plastic blue lens on one side and a red one on the other.

Nowadays, 3-D technology is used in everything from educational films to concert features, with the action growing more and more authentic and realistic -- and without the side effect of motion sickness.

Sports are the latest to venture into this technological territory, with two events coming to town.

Celebration Cinema North will offer moviegoers the chance to watch the Jan. 8 BCS championship game between Oklahoma and Florida live in 3-D.

[Angleae]

5. Orange bowl is Cincinnati vs Virginia Tech

[Capt. America]

3. Is this the BCS's fault or the fault of the Orange Bowl for sticking with the BigEast/ACC autopicks.

[Angleae]

6. Big East is not an automatic pick.

The Orange Bowl is ACC champ vs whoever the bowl committed invites. This year they chose Cincinati over Texas and Boise State.

[nickgutierrez]

4. Reason 1,835 on why the BCS is a joke.

Listed right before how Ohio State gets overrated every year, and right after the way nobody lets the small schools play for anything since Boise State embarrassed Oklahoma a couple of years ago.