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Eli Manningfeels your pain, Swifties!
The New York Giants legend tells PEOPLE he was among the thousands of fans trying to score tickets forTaylor Swift’s upcoming Eras touron Ticketmaster, “just like everybody else.”
“We’ve been to a couple of her concerts over the years and we’re trying to get to the one at MetLife this year in New York. The ticket situation has been hard for everybody,” he says, referring tothe fiasco that resulted in Swift’s fans filing a lawsuit against Ticketmaster.
Manning says “everybody was trying to” score tickets to the tour. “It’stheticket,” he explains. “That was my one duty from my wife,” says Manning, who told her he was “on it.”
Unfortunately, Manning says, “It started with that and then panic,” once the website crashed, leaving fans ticketless.
Fortunately for the quarterback’s daughters, his connections at MetLife Stadium — where the Giants play — should come through for him. “Luckily, I have a few connections at MetLife and since we play our games there, I was able to secure some, I think,” he says.
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Ticketmaster later chalked the disaster up to “historically unprecedented demand,” though Swift had some choice words for the company in her response, noting that she and her team had “asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could.” The Grammy winner also wrote that the situation “really pisses me off” and that she was actively working on a solution for her fans.
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Swift’s tour kicks off in Glendale, Arizona on March 13, before wrapping on Aug. 9 in Inglewood, California.
source: people.com
