The Ridiculous OSU attendance
I'm hoping people besides myself were shocked at how many Ohio State fans were in the stadium today??
Anyone want to wager a guess as to what their attendance numbers were? When I looked on TV later, the blimp shot was incredible...the non-press box side of the stadium looked entirely red.
It was simultaneously embarrassing and impressive...I imagine there were at least 10,000 of their fans there. I don't ever want to see that again!
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 AM ^
It wasn't as bad as the 2006 MSU-OSU situation (or the Nebraska-ND game a few years earlier), but the OSU contingent was big. I'd say it was between 15-20,000.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:57 AM ^
1 in 6 people
not even close
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:14 AM ^
It was not nearly as bad as MSU's crowd debacle vs the #1 Buckeyes in 2006.
The fact that you even felt it necessary to bring this up tells me all I need to know about the number of OSU fans in attendance yesterday.
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:14 AM ^
I would imagine that the most-cited excuse was that they sold tix to scalpers and didn't know they were going to sell them to OSU fans.
Anyway, maybe the bandwagon jumpers will all be back in their seats when OSU comes back in 2011.
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:49 AM ^
I don't understand the "I need the money" argument. If you need the money, what the FUCK are you doing buying season tickets?
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 AM ^
I agree with your basic premise, but disagree with this point for a couple of reasons. It's plausible that a lot of people had the money for these tickets in the summer and don't now, especially considering the Michigan economy. Also, this time of year is extremely hard the wallet. Given the choice between a few hundred dollars I could put towards making my family's holidays a little happier and going to a football game... I think I'd choose the former.
My major contention is with selling the tickets to opposing fans.
November 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 PM ^
Which would you prefer, out of these two options: going to no games, or going to every game but Ohio State?
The OSU ticket is valuable enough to cover the cost of the rest of the tickets. If giving up that one ticket means you could watch the rest of the home games in the stadium instead of on the Big Ten Network, I know plenty of people who'd be willing to sell...and plenty of people broke enough to not be able to afford those tickets any other way.
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:01 AM ^
and was embarassed as everyone else. but to think that the situation is as simple as selling a ticket facetoface with an osu fan is very myopic. I gurantee most of the tickets were sold over ebay (or the functintional equivalent) is very myopic. its possble that someone sold their ticket to an osu fan online from fucking gaylord michigan.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 AM ^
I was at the game and there seemed to be as almost as many Ohio state fans as Michigan. I have the mis fortune of living in Ohio but I guarantee you that would not happen in Columbus. To have that many of our fans sell out to those people is just unacceptible.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 AM ^
There are a lot of transient seats in my sectin (37), so there are usually different people there every week.
This week, four Buckeyes and one Michigan fan showed up in the seats in front of me. Two of the Buckeyes weren't in their ticketed assigned seats. Midway through the second quarter, the alleged Michigan fans showed up in their seats. The Buckeye offered them $100 to leave so they could keep their seats.
The schmucks took them up on it.
Dismayed.