Christmas Came Early This Year

Imagine my surprise when I received an email this morning from StubHub alerting me that my tickets for the January 2 finale against the Cardinals have been sold - for above face value, no less! I have no idea who would pay top dollar to watch this game, but there's a sucker born every minute...

Even if the game were to determine the "winner" of the NFC West, there's no way I would drag myself to Candlestick to watch this contest. And, if the 49ers manage to embarass the NFL by becoming the first team with a losing record to make a postseason appearance, I'll just pick up tickets for the playoff game during that week. I know there are many, many 49ers ticketholders who aren't picking up their postseason ticket options (including me), so I'm sure the team will be desperate to unload their unsold inventory to avoid a potential blackout.