Outback attendees- experiences? Mine sucked

I bought second-hand outside of Michigan Stadium (and occasionally others) for years. Someone with tickets to sell is under no obligation to sell them for any amount they don't want to, even if it is stupid. Stubhub dominates the pre-gameday market, but I don't know if it has anything in common with the street market in front of a stadium; I couldn't find tickets for below face value on stubhub for the UM-Minnesota game up here, for example, but there were thousands of empty seats and I probably could have gotten good prices at the gate.

That's the thing, though: You are always gambling if you travel distance to a game without a ticket in hand. I don't care what the market "should" be: It is a random concept and markets vary from venue to venue.

The problem is that by traveling at some expense, you are pressuring yourself into getting in the stadium and you put yourself in a worse bargaining position. If I had driven my daughter to Minneapolis to go to her first Michigan game and, shockingly, found nobody selling tickets for less than twice face value, I would have had to grit my teeth and pay because I had already invested in the travel, the parking, and in getting her excited for the game.

Even in my young traveling heyday I always bit the bullet and bought tickets before traveling, even if it might cost me more, because I wanted to know that I had a ticket into the game. The only exception I made to this rule was an impromptu trip to Nebraska (2002 Pigskin classic, FYI) that worked out without catastrophe. 

The closest I ever got to getting shut out of a game was in '99 against Notre Dame, when I could only find two people selling any tickets outside the gate at all, netiher for prices I had planned to pay; one sold, and I nearly lost the other guy and had to drive back home, but I found him at the last minute and shelled out so I could get in. At least then I had my television five minutes away to watch the game at only the cost of parking.

How do you arrange to get the tickets an hour before the game, especially if you're from out of town?

I stayed with a friend that lives in Tampa but she is from a small town and was saying there are still some places around where she lives that have 'white only' signs, racism is still alive and well and pretending it isn't is half the problem.

He already did in his original post "Wife threw a huge fuss, thinks we were profiled. "  We all know what he is talking about when he said profiled.  Also is what he describing the "huge fuss" his wife had because he just said he grabbed her before anything happened.

"No matter the motivation it's a shitty practice."

A slight counterpoint to this is that if the customer that was seated was a local, and a regular, it becomes less of a "shitty practice".  The reason being that a lot of places here DO give preference to locals over tourists because those are the people that come back repeatedly and help pay the bills.  So in that respect, the motivation does matter.  This is starting to change because of things like Yelp, Urbanspoon, etc. which can inform non-locals on such practices, but generally speaking, the average tourist who is going to consider the restaurant in question is never going to know about the OP's expereince (assuming, for the sake of argument, that the motivation was what I stated herein and not what the OP implied - obviously, we have no idea for sure) and so, from that standpoint, it makes more sense for the restaurant to provide preferential treatment to locals.