Charity auction for all-access package for Tech-Notre Dame hits $11K
An auction for an all-access package for Georgia Tech’s Nov. 14 game against Notre Dame at Mercedes-Benz Stadium had risen to $11,000 as of Monday morning. Proceeds from the auction will benefit a variety of non-profits that provide food for those impacted by COVID-19.
The auction, which began at $2,500 on April 18, expires at 9 p.m. ET Monday. The package for two includes airfare, a two-night stay in the team hotel, Friday night dinner and snack with the team, a ride on the team bus to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, access to the locker room for the pregame speech, on the sideline during the game and to the postgame news conference.
The auction has heated up in recent days. The leading bid was $4,000 last week.
The auction is being conducted by Fanatics, with all proceeds going to Meals on Wheels, No Kid Hungry, America’s Food Fund (which funds World Central Kitchen and Feeding America).
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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.
