Throughout my 50 years covering sports for The Post, written about a recurring phenomenon: Tickets to the biggest events always end up in the wrong hands \u2014 no explanations given, no paid receipts provided.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And with the World Cup soon to begin on this continent, FIFA again seems to be imitating the International Olympic Committee, by doing big business in the shade \u2014 the kind that tables provide when dealing under them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not that we, here in the land of the free, don\u2019t have our own suspect ticket issues to explain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 1997 Packers-Patriots Super Bowl in New Orleans was supposed to sell Green Bay\u2019s allotment of tickets to Packers season-ticket holders \u2014 as paid reward for their devotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout my 50 years covering sports for The Post, written about a recurring phenomenon: Tickets to the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11760,11015,9,11,10,400,319,431,428,2114,14771,33009],"class_list":["post-248970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-equal-time","tag-fifa","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-tickets","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}