The Crimson rips the lid off the story: Not all Harvard students really want to see a football game and are trying to earn some bucks by selling their Game tickets even though they're not supposed to. Prices have gone up because Fenway has assigned seats, unlike when the Game is at the Stadium. Deans have gotten involved; students are being warned they face possible disciplinary action.
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It seems to me Harvard wants
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:18am
It seems to me Harvard wants to fill the seats and give a free ticket to students. If students don't like the fenway location and Harvard won't let them sell the ticket, take the free tickets, hold a "burn-in" where they burn the free tickets and Harvard has an empty fenway park and bad publicity. Selling the tickets does Harvard a favor by filling the seats. Are these folks really that smart? Well, they like football so maybe not.
Hardly a crisis. No one cares
By Frank Rizzo
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:30am
Hardly a crisis. No one cares.
If I wanted to see some
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:38am
If I wanted to see some senator's son get plastered on a football field I could look up the photos for free on Instgram. Why would anyone pay to watch 3rd rate ivy league football?
Because MIT!
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 11:47am
Hacking Fenway ... that would be a coup!
I'm a 1990 MIT grad who lived
By Chris77
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 1:37pm
I'm a 1990 MIT grad who lived two doors down from the Deke house that installed the balloon that emerged from the field at the Stadium in 1982. Lord knows people saw it, since back then student bodies actually wanted to attend campus sporting events.
https://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1763051/mitball...
It ain't him
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 7:52pm
He ain't no senator's son.
Playing this game at Fenway
By Chris77
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:34am
Playing this game at Fenway is stupid to begin with. Does EVERYTHING in this city have to take place at the ballpark? If I was a Harvard football senior, I'd be disappointed to be playing off campus, Fenway or not.
To add, Harvard vs. Yale has
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 10:03am
To add, Harvard vs. Yale has historically been as much about the tailgating as the football(I think football stinks to watch in person, by the way, haven't attended a live game in years), so the traditional pregame partying has been thrown out the window, unless you think the Cask is a suitable replacement.
Is there a real reason for such?
By BlackKat
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 10:05am
I thought they might be renovating the Harvard stadium this year or something.
No...
By Charles Bahne
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 11:46am
The Game was supposed to be played at Yale this year.
I'd bet every single Harvard player and coach wants to play here
By Pete Nice
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 12:28pm
nt
No, you wouldn't.
By bosguy22
Mon, 10/22/2018 - 8:42am
If you were a Harvard senior you'd be excited to play at Fenway.
In other words
By ChrisInEastie
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:42am
the University would rather students that don't want to go just not claim their ticket, so Harvard and Fenway can sell them and make the money instead.
Girl has got to get paid !!!!
By TrophyWifeLinda
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 10:58am
The Harvard/Yale people begged to have their game at the house of the most influential person in Boston, namely LPH. It is all about influence and connections.
#beersales
#Tiffany
#girlsrule
I don't get your comment. Who
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 11:13am
I don't get your comment. Who is LPH and who is Tiffany?
Linda Pizzuti Henry
By Cleary Squared
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 11:48am
The wife of John Henry, owner of the Red Sox.
Who's Tiffany?
By Waquiot
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 12:26pm
Only the greatest singer of all time!
Trophy Wife Linda
By Will LaTulippe
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 7:52pm
Could've been the best satirist on this site.
Who’s to say she isn’t?
By Waquiot
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 9:33pm
Aside from most people who make comments on her comments.
They should just require a
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 12:23pm
They should just require a harvard student id with these tickets at the gate. People who bought scalped tickets might learn a lesson. But Fenway and the city of Boston are pro scalping since ace and others donate to politicians, so nothing will happen.
They want a full park/stadium
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 1:02pm
At the usual venue, people don't have assigned seats so they fill in from the bottom.
At Fenway Park, large numbers of empty seats look bad.
Yes
By ChrisInEastie
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 1:12pm
Because the people buying resale tickets to an event in Boston are the problem, when they don't often have much of a choice otherwise.
Which is why the real solution to scalping
By anon
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 2:21pm
is to require the VENUE to sell the tickets directly, and to require the purchaser to show up to the venue no more than two hours before the event to claim their tickets.
Ticket resellers are a needless entity that only take advantage of consumers.
Halfway there
By ChrisInEastie
Fri, 10/19/2018 - 8:55pm
Fenway does sell their own tickets.
I think Harvard Stadium does
By anon
Sun, 10/21/2018 - 12:21am
I think Harvard Stadium does have assigned seats. But they're not very strict about it, since it's benches.
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