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What's a U-M Football Seat Worth? Some Students Pay Just $1.50

September 22, 2014, 9:46 PM

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Twitter photo from the Student Union by Alejandro Zúñiga of The Michigan Daily.

 

For a while Monday evening at two campus convenience stores, $3 bought a pair of two-liter Coke bottles and a pair of tickets to this Saturday's home football game against the Minnesota.

Those non-student seats, each with a face value of $75, went quickly as word spread, reports Alejandro Zúñiga of The Michigan Daily student paper.

The promotion sold out at about 7:45 p.m. at the U-go [store] in the Union.

U-go’s employee Brandon Duba said the Pierpont Commons location was also participating in the promotion.

The university then said the 98-percent discount was a goof, though buyers could use their bargain tickets.

After last weekend's 26-10 loss to Utah, some fans and media observers saw the cheap seats as the latest sign of distress. "That's about as sad as it gets," tweeted Fox 2 Detroit sports reporter Ryan Ermanni before this official clarification:

That didn't stop the quips, naturally.


Read more:  The Michigan Daily


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