Mike (I think) at Black Shoe Diaries mentioned that he had tickets to the Penn State vs. Temple game in Philadelphia. That made me wonder if public ticket sales for that game had started, so I checked Temple’s Web site and learned that individual tickets for that game have not yet gone on sale. It looks like they will be making extras available to season ticket-holders initially.

I don’t have a problem with policy; I can see where they are coming from in trying to keep as many tickets “in the family” as possible. Of course, the reality is those season ticket-holders will just sell them to Penn Staters. Regardless of that, Temple’s policy is a lot better than our supposed rival Pitt forcing people to buy tickets to an additional game in order to buy Penn State tickets. If you want to be a big boy, you have to act like one.

Rutgers, circa 1995, had the best policy of all. Move the Penn State vs. Rutgers game to Giants Stadium and sell them to anyone with no strings attached. That is how I saw my first Penn State away game. I was a mere freshman at the time. Sadly, it was the only road game I went to that they won.

Hopefully, I can get tickets to the Penn State vs. Temple game this season. The drive up I-95 to Philly is probably 3 hours shorter round-trip compared to Happy Valley. I have been lucky that I have seen three of the five Northeast Corridor games the Nittany Lions have played since 1995. I caught two at Giants Stadium and one at Boston College over the years. I almost went to another one in the Meadowlands, but that got nixed. I also caught one vs. The UVa.