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It’s official.
All 55,000 seats are gone for the Louisville-Kentucky football game. Apparently a number of tickets were returned from UK, and they were quickly scarfed up, hopefully by U of L fans.
Scalpers are demanding anywhere from $84 to $546 per ticket over at StubHub.
Over 41,000 U of L season tickets have been sold to date. U of L can sell about 44,000 season tickets in 55,000-seat Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. The remaining seats are held for fans of visiting teams, corporate marketing packages and U of L’s internal needs.
About 1,200 tickets remain for U of L’s Sept. 11 home game against Eastern Kentucky.
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By Charlie Springer
Charlie Springer is a former Louisville editor and sportswriter, a public affairs consultant, a UofL grad and longtime fan.
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Even the UK fans are in denial. They think that Jurich is making it up about the returned tickets. It’s great also that only 1,200 tickets remain for the EKU game!
Funny that they had to return unsold tickets, especially with their big mouths always talking about their “unwavering” support for the “kitties”. HA!
Lots of attendance records will be broken this year, that’s for sure.
I sure hope you’re right Paul about the fewer UK fans at the game. Maybe the ticket office strategy of limiting season ticket sales to people recommended by fellow U of L fans had a positive result. Unfortunately, there will be plenty of them there because the corporate guys, the CJ, WHAS and the farm implement people distribute them like crazy out in the state.
I’m hearing that Kentucky returned around 200 unsold tickets to Louisville. Interesting…either the $77 single game price on these spurred buyers away or UK fans are envious of the state of the art PJCS faciities and decided to stay away.
Have to think that there is some UK Alumni group out there that would have grabbed these up…but the reports of the new upper deck section on the East Side being 50% “blue” for this game now appear farcial.
Go CARDS.