The flagship concession item at Stanford Stadium is the Farm Dog, but a different kind of Weenie may show up steamed this fall. Cal has been allotted 15,011 tickets for Big Game on December 1, the same number given to all visiting teams in the new, smaller stadium. Most of these went to Berkeley’s athletics boosters, students and the band; the rest were snapped up by season-ticket holders in a matter of hours. That leaves 25,000 to 30,000 Golden Bears fans with an Axe to grind, if past attendance is any guide.
So what’s a Weenie to do? The most expedient solution is to buy a Stanford season ticket, available for $121 and up at press time. But not everyone can stomach it.
“I’m not giving them my money,” Bonnie Hazarabedian told the San Francisco Chronicle in June, also confessing that she named her daughter Callie and that her son suggested selling their house to buy tickets. “There has to be a better option.”
Well, tickets in the visitor sections were available for $150 and up on StubHub as of late July. But, then, StubHub was founded by two Stanford grads.
