NIU Leads FSU in Orange Bowl Ticket Sales
By: Sabrina Santucci
Updated: December 17, 2012
Hundred of students are driving nearly 1,500 miles to support their NIU Huskies against the Florida State Seminoles. Senior Peter Hamlin already has a hotel booked and is ready for the Orange Bowl on New Years Day.
Hamlin
explains, "it's a one time opportunity for NIU to make it to the Orange Bowl
hopefully they do well and prove that NIU football is a good team and can
compete against others."
NIU has
17,500 tickets to sell, they've distributed 5,500. That's 1,000 more than the
hometown team.
"They're
about an hour away from the stadium and I think they should be able to make it
to support their team. We're driving about 23 hours to make it there to support
NIU so that's kind of a shame on their school to me," says Hamlin.
Hoping
for a large turnout NIU unveiled their donated ticket program. Fans can buy a
ticket and have it donated to a south
Associate
Athletics Director Donna Turner says "I think this is something that will be
popular with our people who are like 'nah I can't make it to
With
the national spotlight firmly set on the huskies. The school wants to show the
nation that
Turner
explains "it's really important that we have a good showing of fans in our
sections. And that our sections appear to be full. And it's not only important
for that but for the fan experience so that our friends are all together and
you're enjoying the bowl game being in
The University says it's best to buy Orange Bowl tickets directly from the school. They've exhausted their supply of $225 dollar tickets. Plenty of tickets remain priced $75 through $165 dollars. Tickets are free for NIU students.
Supporters can get more information about purchasing tickets at http://www.niuhuskies.com/tickets/football-tickets-main.html
