{"id":2067,"date":"2010-02-26T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2010-03-15T03:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:31:26","slug":"group-tickets-at-the-bulls-suck-it-up-and-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/group-tickets-at-the-bulls-suck-it-up-and-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Tickets at the Bulls = Suck It Up and Pay!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you go to as many sporting events as I do, you eventually get to a point where you say – \u201cthere has to be some sort of degree or diploma for all the dumb stuff I know.\u201d Northwestern does actually have a Masters Degree in Sports Administration. Of course, I am being tongue in cheek here; it is actually a good program. But I cannot help but make fun of myself \u2013 at commencement while others were handing in Masters Theses entitled \u201cThe Photosynthetic Properties of the Midwestern Fern,\u201d mine was entitled, simply, \u201cHave Game Will Travel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tonight, the current students (and some alumni), were taking a \u201cfield trip,\u201d of sorts to watch the Chicago Bulls host the Portland Trail Blazers. I figured that is a learning experience I can tolerate.<\/p>\n

But tolerating it means I also need to play nice in the sandbox. Against my better judgment, I had to buy a $23 ticket in order to sit with them in the upper deck. Even though this is half-price (the group rate) of face value, this is still a bad price to pay for a Bulls game (in the upper deck). For example, last Tuesday I paid $40 for a $120 lower level seat and this past Saturday I paid $30 for a $120 lower level seat \u2013 much less than half face value. You would think the Masters students could figure this out, but sometimes when you are going with a large group and you all have to sit together you just have to suck it up.<\/p>\n

In fact the \u201cgroup rate\u201d was not that good. They had about 10 extra tickets, but decided to buy 25 tickets since $575 ($23 x 25 tickets) is cheaper than $690 ($46 x 15 tickets). The school picked up the extra $230 but in all they actually spent about $38.50 per ticket ($575 divided by 15 tickets) and only charged the students $23.<\/p>\n

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Overall, the game was exciting as the\u00a0Bulls defeated the Trail Blazers in OT 115-111. The Bulls remembered Norm Van Lier and Johnny \u201cRed\u201d Kerr who died exactly one year ago today.<\/p>\n

Parking Tips at United Center<\/span>
\nOnce again I parked on Washington Blvd. two blocks north of the United Center for free. That one block has no parking regulations and is across the street from an official United Center lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you go to as many sporting events as I do, you eventually get to a point where you say – \u201cthere has to be some sort of degree or diploma for all the dumb stuff I know.\u201d Northwestern does actually have a Masters Degree in Sports Administration. Of course, I am being tongue in cheek here; it is actually a good program. But I cannot help but make fun of myself \u2013 at commencement while others were handing in Masters Theses entitled \u201cThe Photosynthetic Properties of the Midwestern Fern,\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,42,177,220],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}