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Fan photos

A new memento business at the Big House

by Vickie Elmer

posted 10/11/2008

They start at the tailgate parties and then head to the stadium while it’s still almost empty. They talk to strangers, photograph them, and move on. And last year about 700 fans paid anywhere from $9.99 to $139.99 to buy pictures of themselves at the Big House (for the top price they also got two gold-overlaid team coins). The freelance photographers—seven or

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