NO PROBLEM FINDING A SEAT, EVEN AT FAR BELOW COST.Byline: Billy Witz The Wisconsin Badgers The Wisconsin Badgers are a variety of collegiate athletic teams from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This NCAA Division I athletic program has teams in football, basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, soccer, cross country, tennis, swimming, wrestling, track and field, golf, weren't the only winners at the 85th Rose Bowl. Anyone showing up looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a ticket was in luck, too. An hour prior to kickoff, ticket sellers were willing to take well under half the $110 face value for tickets. ``We're asking $40 and we haven't had any luck,'' said Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Valdez of Hacienda Heights Ha·ci·en·da Heights An unincorporated community of southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Population: 56,100. , who had been trying unsuccessfully for 15 minutes to sell two end-zone tickets. ``We're not looking for a profit, but I never, ever thought it would be like this. We thought people would do anything for these tickets.'' The game drew 93,872 - the smallest crowd since 1944 - but Rose Bowl officials expected less since the stadium's capacity was reduced this year as seats replaced benches in parts of the stadium. Several factors contributed to the lukewarm interest in the game: UCLA's falling out of the Fiesta Bowl The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. and into the Rose Bowl by virtue of its loss at Miami; Wisconsin's weak schedule; and most importantly, this year's $35 increase in ticket prices. It also marked for a sharp contrast in the '94 Rose Bowl between the same two teams. Tickets sometimes sold for as much as $500. ``I was a student then,'' said Mark Davidson, a UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX alum who had been trying unsuccessfully for a half hour to get $50 for a pair of tickets. ``I remember standing at the Central Ticket Office (on campus) and there were Wisconsin fans there with wads of $100s. I'm really disappointed. It speaks to the poor participation of our fans.'' It wasn't only UCLA fans who were stuck with tickets. Some Wisconsin fans who had been burned by arriving in Los Angeles without tickets five years made the mistake of arriving this year with too many. ``I'll either take $20 for them or take them home as souvenirs and write `UCLA spirit' on them,'' said Steve Householder of Madison, Wis., who had been trying to unload a pair of end zone seats for more than two hours. ``If Arizona was here, there'd be 30,000 people. With UCLA, you're lucky to get the bus to show up.'' ``If I could find three kids to give 'em to I would,'' said Tim Townsend of Milwaukee. ``Too bad they don't have a program with the YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. for underprivileged kids.'' |
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