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By TERESA M. WALKER
AP sports writer
NASHVILLE, Tennessee Fans heading to SEC football games stop at the ATM on the road and also carry your credit cards.
Day of the parties in the SEC is big business, and experience price tag can be pronounced.
Fans a priori dedicated a bombardment million in hotels, parking, clothes, food and beverage to see SEC - football obsession in nine States and that is almost unequalled in five of which there is no professional expertise.
A certain Saturday, crazed fans sec spend as much as 41 million dollars in ticket sales alone.
Twenty years ago, Brian Harrison paid $45,000 to door rear one converted around two dozen railroad cars called "Cockabooses" less that an ave Maria pass from Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C.Ahora 43, he is lucky early - bought two suites on sale currently go to more than $200,000.
"There aren't really any way to put a price on these things," Harrison said, barren his hand on his view of the stadium and its two TVs showing games rather than its Gamecocks defeated Alabama entonces-no. 1 last weekend.
"How could find a more perfect tailgate experience?"I have heat and air conditioning, bathroom.And if it rains, I have a roof, "he said."
Tennessee Ryan McBee fan says fans are not being deceived and SEC worth the money.Shares five vols. games and a parking with relatives pass season tickets.
"" For me, this is my main form of entertainment,"said the 28-year-old McBee."Many people go to concerts or go to movies.Work year-round to save for the football season I grew up going to gemes...."Think about other things that could be doing with the money, and get a little ridÃculo.Supongo I am only trying not to think."
Money can be distributed SEC vertiginosa.La 209 million dollars - 17.3 million dollars for each of its 12 members in the fiscal year that ended 31 agosto.Alrededor 150 million dollars of that money came from football on TV, bowls and League Championship game contracts.
Put in the sale of tickets, concessions, memories and parking with schools in 10 SEC filling stadiums at least 95 per cent, and really adds.
At LSU, Tigers take over 4 million dollars in the Valley of death, Saturday night with an average of 3.6 million dollars in sales of tickets, $550,000 in grants, 125,000 $ out memories and $300,000 in parking.
The cheapest ticket to a game of SEC is at Vanderbilt with $25 to see the Commodores play Wake Forest in Mississippi noviembre.Estado had charged $30 against Alcorn, while $40 is the tab when Tennessee played UAB or when LSU hosts McNeese State on Saturday.
But games framework will top dollar cost.
Alabama $65 charge per ticket for the State of Pennsylvania, Florida and Auburn.Para game at home in Tennessee with Alabama October 23 fans had to buy tickets season for $360, addition of a donation: $100 minimum.
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