This past weekend, I attended the men's soccer game against Wisconsin and was thrilled to see the team pick up the crucial win. In the week leading up to Halloween, however, fliers were posted all over campus encouraging students to attend the Oct. 31 game between Penn State and Wisconsin.

The fliers seemed to claim that along with free admission, those in attendance would get free T-shirts. It seemed like a great way to attract fans to the last home game of the season in a pivotal Big Ten matchup.

When Saturday afternoon came, it was cold and rainy. Not the best conditions for attracting a crowd to a soccer game. I decided to go anyway, figuring a free Penn State T-shirt would be worth enduring the cold.

When I got there, however, there were no T-shirts being distributed and none of the people working there offered any explanation as to the lack of T-shirts. I then noticed a small group of people taking shirts out of an unattended box on the ground.

The people there had also been searching for the free T-shirts, and we came to the collective conclusion that these were the free ones.

We all took one and went to our seats and began to enjoy the game. Twenty minutes or so into the game, however, a man who was working at the game came around the stands taking these shirts from anyone he spotted with one.

At this point, I had been wearing the shirt and he told me to take it right off my back and give it to him. I hesitantly obliged to the man.

I am all for promotions in order to attract fans to sporting events, but if you are planning to do this, at least hold true to your word and don't force these fans to give up their time and warmth based on unclear advertisement.

William Monkowski

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