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jet, which costs between $3,000 and $4,000 per hour to operate, what’s a measly $50,000 dollars for a football ticket?

World Series tickets are no bargain in case you are interested. Last year, a regular priced ticket was $975.00 for games 1 and 2. If you preferred tickets behind home plate, you had to fork over as much as $17,820 per ticket. Fans with tickets behind home plate are like football aficionados who would pay $50,000 for a Super Bowl ticket. They have a hanger somewhere to park their G650 Gulfstream.

I once knew a football coach who scalped sideline passes. Nothing like turning a profit on a ticket that cost the hustling vendor nothing. When someone asked him about what he was up to, he came with this disclaimer: “Not me. I gave a couple of tickets to a good friend who must have sold them.” It is easy to understand that. You do a friend a favor, and you have no control over what he does when he becomes a sub-contractor. However, that was not the real story.

For events in the Coliseum at Rome, do you reckon they used some type of ticket for admission? Was there scalping back then? Nothing new under the sun, you know.