I just got off the phone with Sally Bair calling us from Philadelphia. You may remember that Sally is the biggest Penn State sports fan in the world. She also is a cool IT person back in the schools of Pennsylvania. Sally had to tell me a story where she "pulled a Harry."
She had the nerve to take her niece from Schuylkill County to the Duke at Temple game in Philadelphia without any tickets. So the two ladies got to the Wachovia Center in South Philly and started looking for tickets. Scalpers were asking a fortune. She tried the old "will call window" trick that Nancy taught her. Finally - her niece started negotiating with a big burley scalper. He wanted $200 for a pair.
While that was going on - a guy walked up to Sally and said do you need tickets. Sally said yes - how many he said - Sally said two - and the guy handed her a pair and said they are free. They were given to him and the people that owned them could not go to the game. He refused any money.
When Sally got into the arena - she nearly died. The tickets were center court - row 22.
We all know the news - Duke won by 10 or so - and JJ Redick broke the ACC scoring record.
But better yet - Sally is on a "ticket finders" high. She could conquer the world right now. She was rushing back to Pottsville to see her favorite girls team play - and karma helped again - the preliminary game went to two overtimes just so Sally could see her game. As Sally was calling me she was searching for a place that sold lottery tickets. They say good luck travels in threes.
Man - I love when that happens. Way to go Sal.
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