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

FILE - Florida fan Evelyn Stark, 86, wears a hat featuring all the ticket stubs since her first Florida-Georgia game in 1956, while tailgating with friends at an NCAA college football game between Florida and Georgia in Jacksonville, Fla., in this Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, file photo. College football programs are transitioning from traditional paper tickets to digital ticketing. Many fans like the feel of holding a ticket in their hand and hanging on to them as keepsakes. Others welcome the convenience of having a barcode on their smartphone scanned at the gate. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

John 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, Neb. 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 Photo/Eric Olson)