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Students see profits by flipping 
season football tickets on Facebook

Many students have used online class pages to resell their tickets to key games

University of Michigan class 

Facebook 
pages, 
meant 
for 

academic inquiries, awkward 
freshman year introductions 
and 
wholesome 
memes 
are 

now a front for student football 
ticket sales.

MarketNoire, 
an 
open 

Facebook group with the sole 
purpose of serving as a space for 
transactions between students, 
has close to 7,000 members and 
is a frequent stop for students 
trying to buy or sell their 
football tickets.

Pharmacy student Kimberly 

Pais said she’s sold numerous 
tickets 
this 
year 
using 

MarketNoire 
and 
Facebook 

class pages.

“I’ve been doing it for a 

while,” Pais said. “For the 
most part, I get blasted with 
messages right away.”

Pais has been selling since 

her 
undergraduate 
years, 

which were also spent at the 
University.

“I’m basically just trying to 

make my money back,” she said. 
“I try and sell it around the 
average value. If I really want to 
sell it, I’ll sell it for a little under 
just so I can get rid of it.”

On the other end of the 

spectrum is LSA sophomore 
Matthew 
Askar, 
who 
only 

recently 
started 
flipping 

football tickets for a profit.

“When I originally sold my 

first (Ohio State) ticket, I kept 
getting messages from people 
offering me different prices 
and I realized I could’ve gotten 
a lot more,” Askar said. “So I 
messaged other people asking 

how much they were selling 
their tickets for and realized 
there was a gap, so I started 
trying to flip tickets.”

Askar has bought about 10 

tickets and has flipped four of 
them for a profit.

“At first I felt bad, but then 

I realized that if you’re not 
willing to do the research — and 
I am taking the time to look it 
up and message people — it kind 
of evens out,” he said.

His greatest profit margin 

thus far has been $150.

“You feel some achievement 

when you flip a ticket,” he said. 
“It feels like I’m doing some shit 
with my life.”

Askar 
also 
conducts 
his 

business using MarketNoire, 
and already has plans for the 
future.

“Next 
year, 
probably 
not 

(going to try) because we don’t 
have the big games,” he said. 
“But for sure senior year, I can 
capitalize on that.” 

Both 
Pais 
and 
Askar 

recognize 
some 
seasons 

can produce more valuable 
tickets than others. This year, 
with both the Ohio State 
and Michigan State games at 
the Big House, University of 
Michigan ticket holders are 
selling without any problems.

“I was trying to sell my OSU 

ticket and like five seconds 
later some girl messaged me 
and I sold it,” Pais said.

Associate Athletic Director 

Kurt Svoboda wrote in an 
email interview that 21,000 
tickets were sold this year, 
the highest demand for tickets 
since 23,584 student tickets 
were purchased in the 2007 
season.

In 
regards 
to 
students 

reselling their student tickets, 
Svoboda commented, “We love 
it when our venues are full 
because it adds so positively to 
our atmosphere. In that regard, 
I’d much rather have a ticket 
utilized than to go unused.” 

RACHEL LEVY
Daily Staff Reporter

Michigan Students
@UMichStudents
 
My friend just replied all to 
an email server of over 300 
people with his personal re-
sume. He is not a freshmen. 
My condolences to him.

Kai Mason
@kaixmason

Mark Schilissel, welcome to the 
resistance

Alex Gamso
@GammyAlex

Are the @umich buses ever going 
to run consistently or should I 
always plan an hour to get from 
central to north campus? @
UMichLTP

Feral Progresive
@LaianeWolfsong

Getting goosebumps at 
the announcement of the 
#NobelPrize in literature 
#EnglishMajorProblems

UMSI Bicentennial 
Symposium

WHAT: An all-day event to 
learn from experts, panels and 
a student poster exhibition 
showcasing about the ever-
changing field of information in 
the digial age.

WHO: School of Information

WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Rackham Graduate 
School, Auditorium and Fourth 
Floor

Minor in Writing Info 
Session

WHAT: Learn about the minor 
in writing, which develops 
disciplinary and professional 
writing abilities and certifies 
compositionary expertise to 
prospective employers.

WHO: Sweetland Center for 
Writing

WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Angell Hall, Room G219

Symphony Band Chamber 
Winds

WHAT: Symphony Band 
musicians will perform works 
inspired by Finnish, German, 
Italian, Japanese and Spanish 
musical traditions.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building, 
Hankinson Rehearsal Hall

Cafe Du UMix

WHAT: In this week’s UMix, 
get cozy with hot chocolate, 
trivia, crafts and a screening of 
the Princess and the Frog to stay 
warm during the cool weather. 

WHO: Center for Campus 
Involvement

WHEN: 10:00 p.m. to 2 a.m.

WHERE: Michigan Union

Lecture on 
#fragilemasculinity

WHAT: Psychology student 
Jennifer Rubin will explore the 
conenction between men’s need 
to reaffirm their masculinity and 
the culture of online harassment 
towards women.
WHO: Department of Philosophy
WHEN: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, Room 1164

Movie Night on the Diag

WHAT: Enjoy a free screening of 
Spiderman: Homecoming while 
munching on donuts and apple 
cider.

WHO: Office of Greek Life

WHEN: 7:45 p.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: Angell Hall, Room 
3154

Conversation with Art 
Law Pioneer S. Hodes

WHAT: Scott Hodes, a 
University alum internationally 
recognized for his contributions 
to the field of art law, will share 
his insights with History of Art 
associate professor Joan Kee.

WHO: History of Art
WHEN: 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Tappan Hall, Room 180

Dogs on the Diag

WHAT: Come and see how 
therapy and service dogs can help 
people. Pat the dogs and learn 
from volunteers about how your 
pet can assist those in need.

WHO: Council for Disability 
Concerns

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Diag

Every Friday, the Michigan Daily will 
be republishing an article from the 
Daily’s archives from a moment in 
University history. 

December 4, 1989 
— Some fans 

perform salt rituals. Others repeatedly 
wear the same socks, jerseys and 
boxers shorts. For die-hard fans of the 
maize and blue, these superstitions are 
a force that helped carry the football 
team all the way to the Rose Bowl. 
SA first-year student Dylan Brock 
said his green-and-black plaid boxer 
shorts and his blue down comforter 
propelled the team to Pasadena.

His superstition evolved over this 

year’s winning season. “I always 
sleep in until the game on gameday 
Saturday mornings,” Brock said. “I 
would never get changed until after 
the game was over. So I would wear 
my boxers and then wrap myself in my 
dark blue comforter. My friend would 
come over to watch the games, and we 
kept winning.”

The whole thing started as a joke, 

Brock said. But after securing his first 
game ticket of the year, Brock showed 
up at Michigan Stadium for the Ohio 
State game clad in his trusty box- and 
armed with his familiar comforter.

After the Wolverines disposed 

of the Buckeyes, Brock ditched the 
comforter for a joyful jaunt around the 
field in just his boxer shorts. 

“When we blew out Penn State, 

I kept saying it was because of my 
comforter,” Brock said. “Then my 
friends convinced me that it was true, 
and I guess I convinced myself.” 

The true test was the Wisconsin 

game, Brock said.

“I ordered pizza and when the 

pizza guy came I had to get dressed to 
go get my pizza,” Brock said. “When 
I got dressed and went downstairs, 
Wisconsin scored a touchdown. That’s 
when I realized that there was a direct 
correlation between the two. I came 
back and got undressed. We won the 
game, but we didn’t blow them out.” 

LSA junior David Lanxner said his 

elaborate salt ritual has brought the 
maize and blue to the Rose Bowl.

“I don’t know how it got started,” 

Lanxner said. “I started doing it this 
year before every football game. 
Before the games I would pour salt 
around the stadium and our house.” 

The ritual traditionally is 

performed around someone’s feet, 
room or bed to bring them good luck, 
Lanxner said.

“My family is really superstitious,” 

Lanxner said. “I watched this 
Middle Eastern movie when I was 
little, where this little boy kept 
having nightmares. The little boy’s 
grandmother poured salt around 
the boy’s bed and put a knife in the 
mattress to get rid of bad spirits. I 
guess I kind of picked up on that.”

University alumnus Mark Grueber 

said he and his former first-year 
roommate Dave Gamm are the proud

owners of a giant letter “D” and a 

cardboard picket fence that they use to 
show support for the team’s defensive 
abilities. 

“We have had the D-fence for two 

years,” Grueber said. “The first time 
we used it was the Ohio-Michigan 
game two years ago. They won that 
game, 31-23.”

Grueber said that because he and 

Gamm were unaware of the power 
of the D-fence, they didn’t use it at all 
last year.

“We brought it to every game this 

year,” Grueber said. 

Since Grueber and Gamm live apart 

from one another, they only use the 
special weapon when they watch the 
game together.

“It’s the two of us that make the 

force. I am the fence and Dave is 
the D,” Gruebber said. “Combined 
knowledge is more powerful. We’re 
sick.”

Other requirements for Grueber 

and Gamm are wearing the same 
clothes to every game. 

“We must also enter the same gate 

and leave at the same time - that is 
essential,’ Grueber said.

For Brock, his revealing ensemble 

proved a little hazardous after the 
Ohio State game.

“I wore just my special boxers and 

my comforter into the stadium,” Brock 
said. “I was extremely jubilant that we

won. I ran onto the field in just my 

boxers, running around and hugging 
all my friends. When I tried to leave 
through the endzone, I got kind of 
thrown around by the cops. It got 
kinda rough, but it was definitely an 
interesting experience.”

For his part, Lanxner even poured 

a circle of salt around Michigan 
Stadium the day of the Ohio State 
game. “I think I might even use this 
for finals,” Lanxner said.

 
—STEPHANIE HEPBURN

Daily Staff Reporter

FRIDAY’S BICENTENNIAL FEATURE: SUPERSTITIOUS FANS PREPARE FOR GAME

