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TU-OSU anthem? It's your move, Katy Perry
Published: 9/15/2011 2:45 PM
Last Modified: 9/15/2011 2:45 PM

The three most popular excuses for not buying a ticket to the Tulsa-Oklahoma State football game scheduled Saturday night at Chapman Stadium are:

1, Ticket price (just shy of a c-note).

2, Starting time. It will kick off at 9 p.m. and end just before church starts.

3, Katy Perry is performing a few miles down the road at the BOK Center.

I pitched this question Thursday to TU athletic director Bubba Cunningham: If Katy Perry wanted to come to your football game (her concert starts at 7:30 p.m.), would you leave her tickets?

“She could sing the anthem, too, if she would come,” Cunningham said, adding that Perry could stage her concert at Chapman Stadium.

I’ll let others debate the validity of excuse No. 1 and excuse No. 2.

But Perry’s concert – no disrespect intended -- would seem to represent minimal threat to TU-OSU attendance because the events appeal to different demographics.

Perry is a hit-maker. Football players deliver hits.

One event has strong tween appeal. The other event appeals to guys named Bubba (in addition to the one named Cunningham) who think “Teenage Dream” could be a five-star recruiting prospect.

The Bubbas should know this about Perry: She’s got game as a performer and was enough of a competitor to snare notorious womanizer Russell Brand.

But I worry about current musical acts in regard to whether any of them will be able to pack an arena 10 years from now. And I worry about college football in regard to whether stadiums will be packed 10 years from now if ticket prices continue to go sky high.

In the meanwhile, I hope Perry accepts Bubba’s offer to belt out the anthem.



Reader Comments 4 Total
annalee (last year)
It's the ridiculous ticket price keeping me away. And I love both OSU (an alum) and TU (former member of the Junior Hurricane Club)...don't they know there's a Great Recession on!!??
nurse one (last year)
Last year all I heard from TU fans was the price of the ticket to go tp Stillwater. Now they have increase the price of the ticket at TU by $10.00
I guess the think they will finally fill the stadium with the OSU fans. I will stay at home and watch it on V
nurse one (last year)
Last year all I heard from TU fans was the price of the ticket to go tp Stillwater. Now they have increase the price of the ticket at TU by $10.00
I guess the think they will finally fill the stadium with the OSU fans. I will stay at home and watch it on TV
Blue&Gold (last year)
Quit whining. TU gave everyone plenty of opportunity to drop the overall cost of the ticket. The 3 game mini pack they offered which included the OSU game was $110. That's 3 tickets for about $35 each which is $50 lower per game than any game at OSU or OU. The best part about that was it also included the TU/Houston game which has become one of the more hotly contested rivalries in all of college football and has led to some really entertaining and fun games (CBS College Sports showed the game from 2 years ago about 25 times throughout the season). Personally, I thought Bubba C should have made the OSU game a "premium" game which would only be included as part of the season ticket package. TU is going to have about the same number of fans at the game as it always does (17-20k) b/c of a pretty loyal season ticket fan base. OSU fans are the one's griping about it, which I am fine with. It means I won't have to protect my eyes from the retina burning orange.

BTW, everyone whining about why TU fans did not go to Stillwater last year. Besides tickets being $92, no one really wants to go to Stillwater unless they have to. Also, TU season ticket holders had a choice with their packages last year, the other being the Notre Dame game. That ticket was $70, and I was willing to make the trip to South Bend rather than take another ridiculous trip to Stilly on a turnpike to park 2 miles away.
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