Upon further review, as they say, the seat filler ad for Saturday?s Big Ten Conference football championship game was an Internet hoax. The author of the Craigslist ad offering $75 to anyone willing to don red or dark green clothing and fill empty seats at Lucas Oil Stadium came clean to the website SBNation.com, explaining that he was miffed at the massive collapse in value of the tickets he purchased long ago with the intent of scalping them.
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