Wrestling Tickets

Yeah, I don't really have a problem with the Wrestlemania being in Pittsburgh thing, it works well with the story. It just strikes me as odd (and makes me feel old) knowing that there are people out there who don't understand that we could by concert/event tickets without going to the venue. Kind of like we were stuck in the stone ages. The more I thought about it the more I realized how far commerce has come along in the past 30 years.

Just a bit of an add to the original point, I know that at least one of the regional department stores also did ticket sales but I can't recall which one. I'm pretty sure it was Horne's but I really can't recall with certainty.

I really think we're in the weeds here, as this is really not that big of deal.

But the fact that Fred and Debbie say something about being in Pittsburgh anyway is enough for any reasonable person to accept that in this universe, where a man is stuck in a time loop, Wrestlemania is coming to Pittsburgh and therefore had box office sales across the surrounding area. That isn't that far fetched all things considered. The fact that it wasn't in real life is completely irrelevant.

"And, no, there was no Punxsutawney branch."

Oh, you have a list of NRMs? Interesting. Care to share it? I find it hard to believe that someone who didn't even know you could buy a ticket at a store suddenly has the ability to research the location of every single store in a chain that had hundreds of stores that have now been defunct for 20 years.

"BTW, being able to leave town would make the question moot."

They got stuck on a major highway and it was later in the day. A motivated person would have been able to get there on the back roads.

"Furthermore, would NRM provide physical tickets on the spot?"

Seriously? You know all of the locations of every NRM but you couldn't find the answer to this question? Yes, they would print them out on the spot. I'd been through the process many times myself in the years prior to (and even after) Groundhog Day.

"You seem to have completely missed the entire point."

Not at all. You're still trying to make up every little excuse you can to keep your bullshit alive. I've lived through it, I live in the area still and nothing you've presented has any bearing on what could have been done and what actually did exist. You don't have a leg to stand on.

What's sad is that you're still making an argument about this. It could have been done, there is no doubt. Nit picking every possible caveat isn't really doing anything but making you look like someone who's so invested in a piss-poor argument on an internet forum about something that is entirely irrelevant to anything.