Displaying Ticket Stubs/Digital Tickets

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I tweeted a pic of how I chose to represent my B1G Championship digital ticket into my personal ticket stub display. This yielded a few ideas and a lot of questions.

For starters, my collection features one (1) ticket from each season of football played in Michigan Stadium (1927-2021) with a few extras tossed in. It started by obtaining one random ticket from each year, but slowly I’ve been updating the collection with meaningful games (e.g., IU 1979) or moments.

Digital “Tickets”?
Fast forward to today and let’s address the woolly mammoth in the room. Sadly for nerds studs like me, physical/paper tickets are a dying breed. Spies tell me there were a few paper tickets printed and sold for the B1G Championship game but they are not pretty.

So, when life serves you Oranges, make orangeade. I manufactured my digital ticket into something I could keep and display in my collection:

All in all, this is pretty simple if you have 101 editing skills. Steps:

1. Search and copy the logos online (or use my template provided above).
2. Take a screenshot of your digital ticket, and align it under the B1G title game logos. If you don’t have a nice image-editing tool, try PowerPoint or Google Slides (or use my template provided above).
3. Print it out. If you have access to an excellent color printer it helps). I used regular stock printer paper and it works fine. I tried using photo-stock paper last year and found it doesn’t make a difference in the end product.
4. Carefully cut out the image.
5. If you have the means, include a few pieces of righteous Lucas Oil confetti.
6. Carefully center and align it within the pieces of your case. I use Ultra Pro non-recessed Trading Card Protectors. These units are two plates of hard plastic sealed together with four gold screws.
7. Bob’s your uncle:

The confetti makes a nice touch and provides something tangible and somewhat personal from the game, and therefore adds the physical/personal nature of a regular ticket stub.

Here’s a 2021 template if you want to do something like this and save time:

If you crossed that hurdle and want to step up your game, here are specifics on how I display these little beauties. Notes:

• Card cases. My tickets are encased in Ultra Pro non-recessed Trading Card Protectors. These units are two plates of hard plastic sealed together with four gold screws.
• Pennzoni Display Co. The display cases on my walls came from Pennzoni Display Co. – this is what I use for my stubs, the “35 Graded PSA Cards Display case” If you go this route, check out the video embedded below for pro tips!
• Knowing Jack. I copied the entire way Jack Briegel handles his tickets in his epic collection, so credit and hat tip goes to my friend for this whole method.

My video on this topic, more depth, and tips:

The future. Apologies to my fellow memorabilia studs but paper tickets aren’t coming back. But…with the proliferation of blockchain technology and the popularity of digital/NFT collectibles, a prediction: Soon enough you’ll be able to get a display-worthy, fancy-ass digital version of your Michigan ticket or game experience that will get even more people involved in collecting stuff like this. The NFL is already on it. Especially knowing the athletic department and players (NIL) can make a buck. Stay tuned.

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