Fey shows off his ticket stubs from Nebraska’s 1971 ‘Game of the Century’ against Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers’ 1984 Orange Bowl against Miami on Aug 6, 2021 in Papillion, Nebraska. Traditional tickets on cardstock began fading away in the last decade with the advent of print-at-home tickets and digital, or mobile, ticketing systems requiring fans to have a barcode on their smartphones scanned at the gate. — AP
LINCOLN, Nebraska: John Fey was rummaging through a box of old scrapbooks this summer when he came upon a couple lost treasures.
At the bottom of the box, detached from the page they were once glued to, were ticket stubs from Nebraska’s 1971 “Game of the Century” win against Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers’ 1984 Orange Bowl loss to Miami.
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Fey shows off his ticket stubs from Nebraska’s 1971 ‘Game of the Century’ against Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers’ 1984 Orange Bowl against Miami on Aug 6, 2021 in Papillion, Nebraska. Traditional tickets on cardstock began fading away in the last decade with the advent of print-at-home tickets and digital, or mobile, ticketing systems requiring fans to have a barcode on their smartphones scanned at the gate. — AP
Florida fan Evelyn Stark, 86, wears a hat featuring all the ticket stubs since her first Florida-Georgia game in 1956, while tailgating with friends at an NCAA college football game between Florida and Georgia in Jacksonville, Fla., in this Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, file photo. College football programs are transitioning from traditional paper tickets to digital ticketing. Many fans like the feel of holding a ticket in their hand and hanging on to them as keepsakes. Others welcome the convenience of having a barcode on their smartphone scanned at the gate. — AP
Michael Moore rearranges some of his ticket stub collection at his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in this Dec 16, 2019, file photo. Traditional tickets on cardstock began fading away in the last decade with the advent of print-at-home tickets and digital, or mobile, ticketing systems requiring fans to have a barcode on their smartphones scanned at the gate. Mark Townsend of Columbia, Maryland, a collector who runs the website TicketsFromThePast.com, said paper tickets bring about a sense of nostalgia for fans who hold onto their stubs. — C.B. Schmelter/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP
Fey shows off his ticket stubs from Nebraska’s 1971 ‘Game of the Century’ against Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers’ 1984 Orange Bowl against Miami on Aug. 6, 2021, in Papillion, Nebraska. Traditional tickets on cardstock began fading away in the last decade with the advent of print-at-home tickets and digital, or mobile, ticketing systems requiring fans to have a barcode on their smartphones scanned at the gate. — AP
