That’s the ticket: Move from paper to digital divides fans

Fey shows off his ticket stubs from Nebraska’s 1971 ‘Game of the Century’ against Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers’ 1984 Orange Bowl against Miami on Aug 6, 2021 in Papillion, Nebraska. Traditional tickets on cardstock began fading away in the last decade with the advent of print-at-home tickets and digital, or mobile, ticketing systems requiring fans to have a barcode on their smartphones scanned at the gate. — AP

LINCOLN, Nebraska: John Fey was rummaging through a box of old scrapbooks this summer when he came upon a couple lost treasures.

At the bottom of the box, detached from the page they were once glued to, were ticket stubs from Nebraska’s 1971 “Game of the Century” win against Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers’ 1984 Orange Bowl loss to Miami.