STATE COLLEGE --- At the corner of Pugh and E. College, "Bobby Tickets" was trying to make sense of the "strangest week" he'd ever had as a ticket broker.

"Monday, tickets for the Nebraska game were going for $70, $80," he said. "After Joe Paterno said he was retiring, they went up to $300. Then after he was fired ..."

Bobby Tickets made a whistling sound and plunged his thumb to the south ...

"way back down again."

For one ticket Saturday morning, Bobby was asking for $100.