That didn't take long.
If you blinked you likely missed your chance at getting one of those prized tickets to see the pope during his public appearances in Philly later this month.
The World Meeting of Families made 10,000 tickets available for the Saturday night Festival of Families that will cap the week on Sept. 26. Those were snapped up in two minutes.
But that's nothing compared to the tickets for the Mass Pope Francis will celebrate at Eakins Oval on the Ben Franklin Parkway on Sunday. Those 10,000 ducats went in a heartbeat - about 30 seconds.
So here's my question: Just how many people do you think are going to show up for this shindig?
I was stunned last week when SEPTA announced their disappointing numbers in terms of sales of those special papal passes for use on the regional rails for that weekend.
Transit officials hoped to sell 175,000 passes for both Saturday and Sunday. But sales were nowhere near those numbers. SEPTA indicated they had only sold about 50,000 for Saturday, and 60,000 for Sunday, meaning about 200,000 were still available.
I'm wondering if sales have picked up at all since then.
Gauging by demand for the tickets to the appearances by Pope Francis, there is a huge demand, but how are these people planning to get into the city if they're not buying tickets for the regional rails?
Is everybody going to storm the Market-Frankford El to get downtown. Are the people who did not get tickets going to stay home and watch on TV, as opposed to being part of the crowd huddled around Jumbotrons on the Parkway and other locations, far away from any personal interaction with the pontiff?
Anyone have any other ideas.
I still think overall the numbers for the pope visit will not be as big as originally expected, but you'd never know that by the way those tickets got snapped up yesterday.
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