Ticket Scalping

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I didn't watch forty Niners at Rams there at
the end of the regular season when the forty Niners
had to win the game to get into the playoffs.
But Young Alex was just telling me that there were
more forty Niners fans there than Rams fans. It was
like a home game. Yeah. Yeah, there were times when
the Rams had to go with like a silent count,
when you do when the crowd is so loud when

(00:21):
you're on the road you can't hear the quarterback. They
had to do that their own stadium. So the Rams
are restricting tickets. You can only buy tickets if you're
a local person. They're trying to stop forty Niners fans
from buying tickets to the NFC Championship game to make
it once again a forty Niners home game miles away. Right,

(00:42):
I understand that. I don't know if it's good or
kosher legal, but I understand it. You know, it's it's
l a pro sports are fun. It's a thing to do.
It's not like Green Bay, where it's an identity. You know.
It's not like Chicago where people bleed the Bears and

(01:03):
the Bulls and the Cubs and the socks. I mean,
it's just it's different. So yeah, yeah, people go if
they got nothing else to do. But so if you
keep forty nine exceptions, obviously hardcore Rams fans, God blessed.
I gotta believe in the modern Internet era, a lot
of people are gonna find a way around that somehow.
But uh so, if you keep forty Niners fans from

(01:25):
going to Los Angeles to watch the Rams, do you
end up with a half empty stadium? Is that much better? No?
I think what you end up with is a bunch
of Los Angelenos who have become amateur ticket brokers, and
you're gonna see a hell of a lot of tickets
on the secondary market, and you'll achieve roughly the same
result just with one extra transaction you can here, you

(01:46):
can always get a ticket. That's been my experience, and
I've done a lot of scalping. I I used to
travel with this guy they called scalp King and uh
and we went to events. We went to a forty
Niners Packers game Monday night football, Steve Young Brett Farve
playoff in for I mean as big a game as
you could get in a regular season, and we showed
up with no tickets and got great seats outside and
won't even a bad price. You can always get tickets.

(02:09):
So forty Niners fans want to go to watch the
forty Niners Rams game in l A, just show up.
You will be able to buy tickets. That's a bold maneuver,
but I like it now the whole. We can't guarantee
the price. Your results may vary. You do have to
be willing to and as a young man, I was
always willing to. If it doesn't happen, we'll walk across
the street to the bar and have a freaking great

(02:29):
time watching the game on TV. It's the key to
any appreciation. You're willing to walk away. Thing will be fine.
It will not be a disaster if we watched the
game right over there in that sports bar. And one
final tip for me, and this will hurt some people's feelings,
you need to memorize the way the seats work, like
the numbers of the sections because and this is shocking,

(02:51):
the scalpers will lie to you. I did buy a
ticket to watch a Boston Red Sox game. One time.
I scalped and I was sitting behind a pole. My
legs were straddling a pole, well laid a bowl, and
I had to move my head back and forth around
the pole to see the game. I think it was
the year I moved to California. We moved to California.
Bought a scalp ticket to an A's playoff game that

(03:12):
the guy told me, all right behind third base, it's
about the thirty five rose up. Great seat. I get that.
My seat. I am sitting on the moon. I mean
I am across the bay in San Francisco. I could
barely see home play. You were farther away than if
you had have stayed on your own couch. Oh yeah, exactly.
I was barely in the stadium at all.