Top 25 College Football Games for Week 14

Each week TicketCity releases a list of the top 25 hottest games of the 2009 regular college football season based on average ticket price.  The list is accumulated by compiling a majority of the available tickets on the secondary market throughout the entire country.  The secondary market is comprised of over 800 established ticket brokers, and fans who are listing extra tickets to sell.

Check weekly for the Top 25 list and analysis of college football!

• Data is from Week of November 16, 2009
• Average Price is generated from all Secondary Market tickets listed on TicketCity.com (approx. 800 ticket brokers)
• All prices are per ticket.
• Prices are subject to change, so they may not be the same today.

The Southwest collaboration between Austin-based TicketCity and the San Antonio-based Valero Alamo Bowl provides fans from across the nation an unforgettble Texas-sized experience as Notre Dame faces Washington State.

Partnering for the first time, TicketCity and the Valero Alamo Bowl are excited to welcome fans from across the nation to the San Antonio Showdown between Notre Dame and Washington State on October 31^st. The showdown will not only feature the Saturday game but the San Antonio Showdown Pregame Party in the Sunset Station Pavilion. Named the official secondary ticketing provider of the San Antonio Showdown, and a leader in the secondary industry for 19 years, TicketCity offers fans viewing the game additional opportunities to purchase tickets for a variety of events throughout the country. 

Don’t miss your chance to Notre Dame in Texas!  Tickets are starting at just $42!

Broadway - Our Street Signs Light Up

So the AP posts 2 stories back to back about the upcoming fall season on Broadway, titled, respectively, “Musical revivals outpace new shows on Broadway“, and “New plays outnumber revivals on Broadway this fall“. Once the initial bout of cognitive dissonance wore off, I slowly remembered that plays and musicals were 2 different things. One is were people walk around the stage and talk, the other is where people dance around the stage and sing. Thus there can simultaneously more revivals in category “A” and more new shows in category “2″.

What of category A, which I just decided was musicals, where revivals rule for the fall season? The revivals are lead by Bye Bye Birdie, which began on Broadway in 1960 and became a film staring Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret in 1963. The musical tells the story of Conrad Bridie, a very popular singer in late 50’s America who is about to inducted to the US Army, and the plublicity-stunt-gone-awry that lands him in the wholesome all-American town of Sweet Apple. The story was conceived after the media frenzy around the draft of Elvis Presley to the Army in 1958.

I knew an Elvis fan once.

Other revivals this season include Finian’s Rainbow, Ragtime, and White Christmas, which I sense has a holiday theme to it. Unlike Bye Bye Birdie, White Christmas followed the opposite route, having been based on the 1954 film of the same name instead of having a film adapted from it. If you guessed it’s also where the holiday standard “White Christmas” originated from, you’d be correct. This will be the show’s second year on Broadway for the holiday season. It has a ways to go to rival Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular in terms of “long running holiday tradition,” though.

On the category 2 side, we have plays, where the originals outnumber the rivals, if you recall correctly from the first paragraph. I’ve already covered A Steady Rain, the cannibal fueled romp heavy with fake American accents. There’s also Superior Dounts, staring Michael McKean, as the proprietor of a doughnut shop and his budding friendship with his new young, urban employee. Granted, it gives me a “movie of the week” vibe. McKean has recently been touring with fellow Spinal Tap/Folksmen alums on the Unwigged & Unplugged tour.

We have tickets to all these shows and a bunch of the other ones opening this fall on Broadway. You can check out the Theatre Tickets page or just plug in your desired show on the search box at the Ticketcity website.

The Dallas Cowboys play the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, October 11, 2009, at Arrowhead Stadium. Kick Off is at noon. This game features returning Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo, fresh off his break up with Jessica Simpson. Starting for Kansas City is Matt Cassell, who last year played for the New Englang Patriots. He played college ball at USC. TicketCity has tickets for this game starting at $99 each. By far the best deal on the internet.

The NFL has awarded the 2010 Super Bowl (XLIV) to Miami. The championship game will be held on February 7, 2010 at Dolphin Stadium (Capacity: 75,540).

In other news, CBS has sold 65% of the available commercial (tv) spots for next year’s Super Bowl. As of now, prices are approximately $2.7 million to $2.8 million per spot. As always, confirmed advertisers include Anheuser-Busch InBev, CareerBuilder.com, and Pepsi. Look out for them early next year!

When Borat hit the movie screen from his “home town” Kazakhstan many people had never heard of it. Even though it’s the ninth largest county in the world, next to Russia and the Caspian Sea, it was quite foreign to the US media.

That’s all changed this year though because of Alberto Contador, from the Astana Cycling Team of Kazakhstan. He’s currently getting closer and closer to victory at the Tour de France and he might even be the first man to beat Lance Armstrong in the past eight years. Stay tuned though, this all could change!

The NBA Classic game featuring the San Antonio Spurs vs the Oklahoma City Thunder will be played at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas this October.  Since the closest thing Austin has to a professional team is the Longhorns (which I’m not complaining about), lets show the Spurs and Thunder that we have love for more than just college sports.  We  can scream and cheer with the professionals!  Plus, if you can’t make the drive to San Antonio or Oklahoma City, this is a great opportunity for you and your family to see an intense NBA game!  Don’t miss your chance to see this NBA Classic in your own backyard!  Put the reminder on your calendar for October 20th and secure your tickets, before they go onsale, for your chance to be a part of this exhibition game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder.  You can secure your tickets by calling 1-800-SOLD OUT or by visiting TicketCity.com to reserve your tickets Today!

Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp make it to Austin (well Round Rock) this summer on August 4th.  This memorable show will be held at the home of the Round Rock Express, the Dell Diamond, located at 3400 E Palm Valley Blvd, Round Rock, TX‎ 78665.  The concert will start at 5:30 on this Tuesday night, with doors opening at 5 pm.  Although, since this concert is General Admission, I would arrive early so that you can secure prime seating either in the stands or on the field. 

Now if you are thinking…”I don’t want to leave my kids on a weeknight,” well guess what?!?  This will not only be an awesome event for adults, but they are doing something extraordinary for kids as well!  This is one of the only shows that I’ve come across that allows children under the age of 14 to be admitted FOR FREE with each adult ticket!  Now it might be on a Tuesday, but kids are out of school and the concert starts early, so this will be a great time to get in some family time and also expose your children to 3 of music’s finest! 

Also, all the permanent concessions will be available to you during this concert as well.  This means you can enjoy a great steak or burger, Hooter’s Wings and fries, Poke-e-Jo’s BBQ and several other delicious food vendors.  And don’t forget about several specialty and imported beer stands, along with the New Frozen Margarita stand!

This concert can be fun for a person of any age, whether you are seeing them for the 25th time or the 1st, you are bound to find excitement in this show and have memories to share for years to come!  I know I will!

You can get your tickets TODAY before they go on sale to the general public at TicketCity.com!  So secure your tickets today and make sure that you will be a part of this great musical event!

The field for the 2009 NCAA Final Four is set. The three game tournament, that will decide college basketball’s national championship, begins at Ford Field on Saturday. Saturday’s session has two games: UConn vs Michigan State and UNC vs Villanova. The winners will play in the Championship Game on Monday night.

Buy tickets for the 2009 NCAA Final Four.

Final Four Saturday Session (two games)
Connecticut Huskies vs Michigan State Spartans
North Carolina Tarheels vs Villanova Wildcats

Final Four Monday Session:
Championship Game – winners of both Semifinal games

It’s never too early to secure your seats for 2010 UIL Basketball tickets.  Buy them today to ensure that you will be courtside for this, always exciting event!   Make your way to www.ticketcity.com or call one of our friendly and knowledgable sales people at 1-800-SOLD OUT to get your tickets today!