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shuke33 
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| Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:48 pm)
Per Fox Sports Radio Update
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ehidal1 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:50 pm to shuke33)
Damn. Nice job NIU
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SprintFun 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:51 pm to shuke33)
Well, they were giving students free tickets if they make the trip...so that's kind of inflated.
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Smalls 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:51 pm to shuke33)
They're playing with the numbers somehow.
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BluegrassBelle 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:52 pm to shuke33)
If so that's cool. I know they were only averaging like 15,000 and were expected to come up with a few thousand more then that.
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:52 pm to shuke33)
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tonyperkis 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:54 pm to SprintFun)
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Well, they were giving students free tickets if they make the trip...so that's kind of inflated.
True, but it is still pretty impressive for a MAC school.
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Col Reb is my mascot 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 9:57 pm to tonyperkis)
Tickets are listed as low as $2 on stubhub... guess it's FSU that isn't selling any tickets then.
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shuke33
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 10:02 pm to Col Reb is my mascot)
FSU should donate those tickets to veterans of our military service
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East Coast Band 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 10:17 pm to shuke33)
Didn't they average around 12k attendance for their home games? now they sold out 17k for a trip 1000 miles from campus?
I am sure many folks would look for any excuse to get out of Illinois in January for Florida, but something still doesn't seem to add up.
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NastyTiger 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 10:24 pm to shuke33)
That stadium will look like the Hornets arena..
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nvasil1
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/7/12 at 10:40 pm to SprintFun)
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Well, they were giving students free tickets if they make the trip...so that's kind of inflated.
Yeah, but the fact that students are actually making the trip is a win for NIU.
Two of my friends that graduated from there only knew about the Orange Bowl invite because I told them.
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JG77056
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 12:24 am to Col Reb is my mascot)
There aren't just the 2 schools' tickets, those $2 stinging tickets are probably local tickets. It's not a 35000 seat stadium.
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CtotheVrzrbck 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 12:30 am to shuke33)
Your move BCS.
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LanierSpots 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 1:29 am to shuke33)
Awesome but let's wait and see how many are in the seats on gameday.
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UltimateHog 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 1:30 am to LanierSpots)
Probably 40K.
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GeorgiaTide
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 2:31 am to shuke33)
That's pretty sad that FSU can't sell their allotment to the fricking Orange Bowl. I get its not a good matchup but it's still an instate BCS Bowl Game.
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chalmetteowl 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 3:28 am to shuke33)
BCS is a once in a lifetime thing for NIU people... of course they should be excited
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StraightCashHomey21 
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 3:48 am to GeorgiaTide)
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That's pretty sad that FSU can't sell their allotment to the fricking Orange Bowl. I get its not a good matchup but it's still an instate BCS Bowl Game.
why pay 100 bucks when you can pay 10
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Sophandros
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| re: Northern Illinois sells out all of it's Orange Bowl tickets (Posted on 12/8/12 at 6:23 am to SprintFun)
Well, someone had to pay for those "free" tickets, so the OB got its money.
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