Football Tickets: Clearing up confusion

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Story Published: Oct 13, 2007 at 4:23 PM PST

By Elissa Harrington

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AUTZEN STADIUM - The Ducks' winning season has swarms of fans trying to get into the games but the most talked about thing besides the football team, is the tickets.

It's like a bad game of telephone. Rumors have been causing so much confusion over tickets lately. Are student tickets being scanned? Does your ID number have to match the tickets? Are fake ones swirling around the internet?

Well, we went straight to the source to find out once and for all what is going on.

Alumni out there, don't lie. Some of you have used your old ID to get into the student section of a game but University of Oregon officials say this year, the tickets contain student numbers and are checked with student ID.

Even though some newer alums' IDs have slipped through the cracks, come next year, the number on the ID will have to match exactly the number on the ticket, guranteeing only real students get through.

What's a bigger concern are the counterfeit tickets. 31 bogus tickets were seized at the last home game and fans who paid lots of money to get into the game were turned away. So, is there a way to tell if a ticket is fake? Garrett Klassy, Director of Ticket Sales says, "There really isn't. Especially a standing room ticket because there's not a seat location printed on there. If there's a seat location printed on there we can trace it back."

The phonies were purchased on Craigslist and Ebay and from scalpers on the street. Officials we spoke to today said so far, they had not seen a repeat of the previous problem but are still pinning down those who caused loyal fans to miss their favorite team play. Lieutenant Herb Horner or the University of Oregon says, "There were a couple people that were detained over in the area of Kowloon's Restaurant. From what I understand the tickets are believed to be coming out of Texas. That's where they're being printed."

Officials say the only way to guarantee a valid ticket is to buy them directly through the U of O ticket office.

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