Inside Conditions—Freeloaders

There was an article posted on msn.com on last Sunday lamenting scalpers in Detroit selling “free” tickets that were given away for the rescheduled Monday night game that was played in Detroit at Ford Field between the Buffalo Bills and the NY Jets because of the recent monstrous snow storm in Buffalo and other parts of western New York state. Eventually, the game had to be relocated to the motor city.
The title of the msn piece was, “Scalpers in Detroit selling free Jets-Bills tickets for $125.”  The article went on to say, “Free tickets are surprisingly expensive in Detroit. After a record amount of snow hit New York recently, Sunday’s Bills-Jets game—originally scheduled to be played in Buffalo—was moved to Monday night in Detroit. General-admission tickets for the game at Ford Field were made available for free on Saturday, and were all snatched up quickly. The Lions held on to 500 tickets at the box office, but those freebies were scooped up within 10 minutes of being made available Sunday morning. Enter: scalpers. Soon after collecting their free tickets, “fans” took to the streets surrounding the stadium and attempted to sell them for an amount much more than free, with one scalper asking for as much as $125 a ticket, according to ESPN’s Mike Rodak. “This ain’t a free game, man,” one scalper told Rodak.”  If the purveyors of NFL tickets are making a little extra money, so what.  Plus, why wasn’t “complimentary only” or some other disclaimer such as “not for resale” printed boldly across the face of the tickets to prevent them from being sold? to resale of these free tickets are not the fault of the sellers, the fault lies squarely on the doorstep of the NFL. Also, there is a mean spirited, racist attitude toward anyone making a living that does not coincide with the vision of the majority of Americans.  The majority of these so-called “accredited journalists” won’t express inflammatory opinions but stoke the fires and biased opinions along with wild ranting and raving by “boobleheaded tea party, butt kissin’, bloggers.