Heh.
Tickets to see Missouri play Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl sold out less than 24 hours after they went on sale a few weeks ago, and online scalpers are fetching $150 to $500 per ticket for the Jan. 1 game in Dallas.
Randy Cohen, CEO of Ticket City.com, said the Cotton Bowl has been one of his company’s top five best-selling tickets.
"This is a monster game," said Cohen, whose Austin, Texas-based company buys season tickets from big venues and resells them over the Internet. "Missouri hasn’t been to a bowl of this magnitude in quite some time."
The Orange Bowl, meanwhile, is in much less demand. Tickets to the Jan. 7 game in Miami are still available on KU’s Web site. Online ticket vendors are selling seats for the game between Kansas and Virginia Tech at a fraction of their $125 face value.
Russ Lindmark, owner of Ticket Solutions in Overland Park, Kan., said Orange Bowl ticket sales have been "terrible" and the lack of interest in the game has caused prices to plummet to $29 each.
"The Kansas people just aren’t going," Lindmark said. "I think the Kansas people know that their team isn’t really all that good."