I would then give these tickets to the owner of my favorite bar, and he would hook me up with some free drinks and occasionally some grub. It probably helped that I was a particularly large tipper (it greatly improves the quality of drinks and scores free ones frequently too) and would spend almost every week night there making use of the five cent specials for food.

Now I would also claim my “free” student ticket to the game too. As a grad student the ticket was supposed to be $8 since we don’t pay the activities fee that the undergrads pay for the free tickets, but if you go to the box office the night of the game and show your id, even though it has “GRAD STUDENT” in big bold letters across the front, the cashier would give the free undergrad tickets just to speed up the process and get to paying customers.