"why today is all I could think."
Could it be that they don't want you to just give your tickets to somebody - if you use their "system", they can track who's sitting where?
just a thought...
Think they are changing the way they do everything now because I know for a fact we only used 3 out 5 tickets the last game and 4 out 5 this time. If I were them, I would be checking everyone's tickets.