Tomorrow's Bucs game against Seattle is NOT sold out. But good luck finding a link to Ticketmaster on the Bucs Web site. ScalpHub and the "Season Ticket Waiting List" are easily accessible.

A visit to the Bucs official Web site this morning revealed two ticket options on its homepage. But it’s odd how there’s no option for Ticketmaster to actually buy tickets to Sunday night’s game.

At the Bucs’ site you can click on a link to StubHub (aka ScalpHub) and pay a premium for Bucs tickets. Or you can click one of two links to get on the “Season Ticket Waiting List.”

Well, Joe took an apparently unauthorized trip over to Ticketmaster and, less than 36 hours from kickoff, you can buy pairs of tickets (together) in various price ranges. Joe found a pair in Section 331 ($85 each) and Section 144 $99 each. Plenty of more expensive seats are available, too.

Now Joe finds this bizarre, considering the Bucs had huge advertisements all over the newspapers, radio and the team Web site near the start of the season telling fans that good seats were still available for all games.

But those ads have disappeared. Maybe ScalpHub didn’t want to pay big sponsorship dollars to a team that advertises plenty of seats available?

Who knows. But Joe thinks the Bucs should stop leading fans to believe that the place is sold out. Like they do with the big “SOLD OUT” message you see when you click on a link to “General Tickets” 

Isn’t the whole idea to get fans at the games?