By the Numbers

The Daily Dartmouth has a story about backup quarterback Dan Rooney's experience at the Super Bowl with the family-owned Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Three Ivy League teams placed in the top 25 in the nation in home FCS attendance last year in figures recently released by the NCAA.

Nationally Ranked
8. Harvard 16,918
16. Yale 14,592
25. Penn 11,926

Other Ivies
Brown 7,970
Princeton 7,725
Cornell 6,878
Dartmouth 5,971
Columbia 5,192

No. 1 overall was Appalachian State with home attendance of 25,715 per game. Sacred Heart, which will host Dartmouth for the first time next fall, came in at 2,203.

The NCAA also broke the numbers down by conference affiliation.

Conferences
1. SWAC 14,605
3. Colonial 11,205
7. Ivy League 9,613, (up 605 from last year)
12. Patriot League 5,295 (down 164)
14. Northeast 2,343 (last among conferences)

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If you think Ivy League attendance was up last year, wait until next year when you'll be able to factor in the Yale-Penn State Nittany Lions showdown at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. If that's not a sellout, I'm not sure what will be.

Don't laugh. Check below for the ad from the service offering the tickets. By the way, if I were you I'd scoop a few of them up right now because they are sure to go fast. Here's a link to the service offering these rare tickets.

(Click the ad to supersize.)

Two thoughts:
1. The ad says they specialize in "selling tickets to all types of sporting events." Apparently that includes fictional events.

2. How do places like this stay in business?