U.-USU is Tough Ticket

If the ticket-scalping business is any indication, Thursday’s USU-Utah football game was a big deal.

How big?

“I haven’t seen anything like this in a long, long time,” said one scalper, outside Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Asked if he was talking strictly about Ute football, or other events, he said, “Things all over Salt Lake.”

At 5:15 p.m. he said he had been standing outside the stadium for an hour, but no one had offered to sell him their tickets. “I haven’t seen any movement at all,” he said.

He added that earlier this week he saw a pair of tickets for sale online and called on them, five minutes after they were posted. He was told there had already been 20 calls.

Even so, there were still a few empty seats visible during the game in the southeast corner and a smattering throughout the east stands. Seems a couple of hundred people bought tickets but didn’t bother attending.