This is a picture from the first quarter of the ACC Championship game in Tampa this past weekend:
Although the ACC’s official attendance number was 53,927, you can clearly see that the “real number” was far lower than that. The ACC officially acknowledged that BC and Virginia Tech sold less than 5,000 of their 20,000 allotted tickets… yet somehow they come up with 53,927… when “less than 20,000” would be more realistic. Word is that the game was such a snoozer that scalpers were actually giving tickets away outside the gates. And no, I don’t mean “giving them away” as in selling a 50-yard line seat for $10… I’m talking about actually giving them away, as in “here… no one wants these… you can have them for free!”
That’s friggin pathetic! The SEC Championship, held at the Georgia Dome this weekend, was like a bowl game unto itself. Meanwhile, fewer people show up for the ACC Championship than a regular season game at perennial football powerhouse University of Delaware.