Perhaps a better prize would have been something more substantial like free gas for a month or a year's worth of steak dinners.
Posted on 10/10/2005 3:46:02 AM PDT by darkness78
Husker fans not heeding call to donate tickets to vets
FREMONT, Neb. - A program to give Nebraska's veterans tickets to Cornhusker football games is running into some interference.
Few Husker fans are willing to part with their tickets.
The Nebraska Bookstore has been sponsoring the program to get veterans tickets to the Kansas State-Nebraska game on Nov. 12, the day after Veterans Day. The store said it would match the first 100 tickets donated to the game.
But so far, fewer than 20 tickets have been donated. At least 700 veterans have registered for a chance to receive up to two tickets each, store officials said. They expect that number to grow.
Husker tickets aren't easy to come by. Memorial Stadium, which seats more than 70,000 people, has sold out every football game since 1962.
The first of several drawings for tickets was slated for Saturday.
Jim Elworth, an alumnus of the University of Nebraska, was among the first to donate.
"I thought (donating tickets) was a very little something I could do for those who are sacrificing so much," said Elworth, who now lives in Indiana.
Army reservist Craig Siems, 47, of Fremont, recently returned from an 11-month tour of duty in Iraq. He would like to get a ticket to the game, but he's not sure it will happen, he said.
"Even if I don't get tickets, at least I know someone was thinking about us," Siems said. "But it comes to a point. It's one thing to say that you support (the troops.) It's another thing to do something about it."
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There must be scalpers with tix. Someone should find the scalpers, buy some tix and donate em that way.
Perhaps a better prize would have been something more substantial like free gas for a month or a year's worth of steak dinners.
That was a bad Idea. They might as well had a sleep with my wife contest as have husker fans give up their tickets.
That was a bad Idea. They might as well had a sleep with my wife contest as have husker fans give up their tickets.
LOL...I used the Playoff ticket example but yours seems to fit better!!!!!!!!!!!
Huskers do not give up so tickets so easily, even when their team is on the losing end, they support their team like they were #1. I am sure they have reserve tickets that can be given, knowing this they should have secured the tickets first or arranged for a large viewing party on campus, it's too bad fan's aren't willing to give up one game for the veterans. Californian's for Nebraska are as diehards as if they were home.
It was actually an AP story picked up out of Fremont. I'll go down and have a little talk with them tomorrow. LOL
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