If you’re somebody like, say, Jim Delany who’s looking for a rebuttal to the economic fairness argument being lobbed in the direction of the BCS, it’s hard to do better than to glom on to this story.
WWL-TV reports the SEC school’s fans purchased 37,000 tickets to LSU’s opening game against Oregon in Cowboys Stadium in Dallas on Sept. 3.
The 37,000 tickets distributed for the game to Tiger fans through the LSU ticket office is the most ever for a regular season away game for the school, surpassing the 31,000 sold for the Tulane game in New Orleans in 2007 and 25,000 for the 2010 season opener against North Carolina in the Chick-fil-A Classic in Atlanta. As a result of the 37,000 tickets being sold to season ticket holders, tickets for the Cowboys Classic game against Oregon will not go on sale to the general public through LSU, Broussard said. Broussard added that ticket requests from LSU season ticket holders for the Oregon game had already surpassed the school’s allotted amount of 37,000.
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas is 460 miles away from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It will take Tigers fans 7 hours and 34 minutes to make the road trip to see the LSU vs. Oregon game.
As Ben Maller points out, that road trip total would make a decent showing for a bunch of the usual suspects’ home attendance numbers.
… Keep in mind during the 2010 college football season these teams finished in the bottom ten in attendance. They would need several home games to sell 37,000 tickets.
- Ball State 8,947
- Akron 10,185
- Idaho 12,730
- Buffalo 12,981
- Bowling Green 13,306
- Florida Atlantic 14,025
- Western Michigan 14,225
- San Jose State 14,474
- Western Kentucky 14,577
- Miami (Ohio) 15,519
And these schools deserve to share in more of D-1’s football bounty because why, exactly?
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Off the wall, but exactly 7 hours and 34 minutes?
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If you drive the speed limit, allow for two bathroom breaks (neither involving doodoo), and one food stop, yes. It’s science!
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Depends on the doodoo. Most food in Baton Rouge will cause a quick doo anyway.
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Same can be said about their women.
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How much fiber is in a corn dog?
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With or without mustard?
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So, it would take Ju’juan Story approximately 7 hrs and 44 minutes?
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C’mon guys, you can’t time that. A good healthy doodoo is an art, not a science.
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That’s why it was left out of the formula. Too much variance.
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It took a while, but I remembered this gem from the 60’s:
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50 year old doodoo jokes. Is there nothing the internet can’t do?
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Bring back my appetite after clicking that link.
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I saw that movie in high school. “The Groove Tube”. Much hilarity ensued.
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“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”
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Marxist doodoo
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Delany Shrugged
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Newt the Marxist Shrugged today also. Unfortunately for Leroy, that only lengthens the two minutes of hate against him from cannibal and the headhunters
http://www.americablog.com/2011/05/republicans-savage-newt-for-criticizing.html
as he momentarily forgets which of the dances he is supposed to be doing today
In related dining news, another in the long grey line of Marxists from the Great State of Salt, has a momentary lapse of reason and confuses meterologists with oncologists for the start of his two minutes of hate by the ten percenters
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/05/17/quote-of-the-day-11/
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That sheeet is just funny. Best thread evah.
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Why you hatin’ on Big Red?
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Because Dennis Felton, that’s why.
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