Go ahead and require a special gadget to get an "electronically transferrable ticket," no skin off my back. That is a feature I will never use.

Don't bother your season ticket holders about getting their own person admitted! I am standing in front of you, bearing identification, and you are whining about a mobile app?

If ticket prices keep increasing, it would seem the capability to print harder-to-forge tickets could be done with the extra revenue.

They could even do something like give him a little RFID token that can be used once. Tap it, gates open, go in, done.