Things that you can buy for $575 that aren’t a single ticket to the NFL exhibition game:

- 176 pounds of copper
- 17 tickets to the Argos-Alouettes game
- half of the City of Detroit
- 43 copies of the Maestro’s Urban Landmark
- 27 copies of Matt Dunigan’s book on football
- 30 copies of Matt Dunigan’s book on cooking (honestly this shocked me, after his coaching career I would have assumed that his cook book would have been more expensive)
- Buy 575 copies of the newspaper.  Make 575 newspaper hats
- 35 haunted Coleman coolers
- 580 alien raisin heads
- 542 copies of the Sacramento Gold Miners media guide
- The rights to the Sacramento Gold Miners

Reasons we can think of for spending $575 to watch preseason football:

The question I was asked the most during this week at work was whether or not Indy would cover the spread (it should be noted that prior to Grey Cup my co-workers just asked who I was cheering for without the spread being mentioned, but that's a rant for another time).  In any case, it brings up a good question.  If you are an Argo fan, without a gambling interest, who do you cheer for tomorrow?

Well, Indianapolis has two key things going for it. 
Federekeil - who we selfishly hope is an Argo ASAPFirst, as every media outlet has reported this week, Indy employs the Argos first round pick from last year and argofans.com member, Dan Federkeil.  Secondly, the Colts did CFL fans an enormous favour by using Kerwin Bell as a backup QB for a year.

That being said, Indy is also the team that cut former Argo Mike Vanderjagt, and they employ Peyton Manning, which cancels out the positives.

With that in mind, I think that we'll simply steal a page from the Baltimore fans who come to Grey Cup every year.  This year we're cheering for beer.