Though the Big Ten patently denies it is paying people to fill empty seats amid a soft ticket market for Saturday?s inaugural football title game between the University of Wisconsin and Michigan State, it appears that somebody was poised to do so. An ad on the Indianapolis Craigslist under the heading “Event-Seat Filler” that was visible until Wednesday evening asked for candidates to wear “red or dark green casual clothing” and be able to “tolerate loud noise and crowds” for an event in downtown Indianapolis that runs from 8 p.m. to roughly midnight.
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