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“Get ‘em while they’re cold”

By Jack Magruder | Monday, January 5, 2009, 08:12 PM

At kickoff here, it is a pleasant 55 degrees, even warmer inside the University of Phoenix Stadium with the retractable roof shut.

Only the scalpers were miserable.

One scalper was selling five tickets, faced value $150, for $20 apiece … really. And no one was buying.

“You can’t give them away,” said Mike from the Bay Area. “Get ‘em while they’re cold.”

This is at the same venue where Ohio State-Florida tickets at the same face value were bringing $1,000 a pop, with no shortage of customers.

Tickets for the Ohio State-Miami game here at Sun Devil Stadium after the 2002 season went for the game price.

“I was watching people shell out thousand dollar bills back then,” said Steve from Mentor, Ohio, who has been to the four Ohio State bowl games here.

“I’m just trying to get face value here, but I can’t get $50.”

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