Two hundred and change is a lot to spend on anything, especially something you can watch for free on TV, but this particular decision is about more than economics. Economics can’t quantify the experience of a Pennsylvania State University football home game, let alone a full season’s worth of them.

Economics is inert, and football, at least in Happy Valley, is alive and well.

For the past three years, I was a part of this living, breathing organism. Each home game, nearly without exception, I counted myself among the 100,000 strong that squeezed into Beaver Stadium every Saturday in varying states of sobriety.

It wasn’t always perfect—far from it. Often it was cold, rainy, snowi...

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