I was gleaning through Jack Lail’s Coverage roundup: Despite the calendar, the “Third Saturday in October” is up when I stumbled across Embarrassing Fact of the Day: Alabama-UT Game Not a Sell-out . At first I thought I was going to have to bust some Rammer Jammer’s chops, but I followed the link. That link still didn’t prove anything, so I clicked the Buy/Renew button. That took me to yet another screen with no proof. One more click and low and behold I see “A LIMITED NUMBER of ALABAMA seats have been released for sale.” Should I split semantical hairs with the Crimson koolaid drinker that it says “ALABAMA seats”? I would take that to mean that tickets held for Alabama fans didn’t sell out, but it’s just how the site words all the tickets sales.

Make sure you read the fine print too, “Singles remain throughout the stadium. You must purchase 1 seat at a time to find them.” Notice the pricing? $70 and $73 per ticket!

With all that said, I’d still like to go to the game. It’s a night game, it’s the Tennessee – Alabama game, it’s Tennessee football. Do I expect the Vols to win, no. I expect Alabama will eat them for dinner. But I can hope, as can all of the rest of us Big Orange fans in Alabama can do. You can only image how unbearable it’s becoming trying to live here in enemy territory.

I’m still waiting for Mike Hamilton to tell me he has 2 tickets waiting for me at Will Call. He’d better hurry though, with it being a night game I’m also going to need to make a hotel reservation, unless Mike lets us stay with him 😉