Feeling old yet? The advancing digital-mobile world is about to claim another victim: the paper ticket. Little Caesars Arena announced Wednesday its plans to switch to mobile ticketing for all Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons games. Starting with the upcoming 2018-19 season, fans will no longer be able to use paper tickets to enter the arena. Instead your ticket will be a bar code delivered to your phone for scanning on entry.

Don't have a smart phone, forgot to charge it up, left it in the car? "Fans whose phone is broken or loses connection on game day are asked to visit the Little Caesars Arena XFINITY Box Office to have tickets printed. A photo ID that matches the name on the account should be presented."

So there will still be some paper. And I imagine they will have lines they won't believe once this confusion take hold.

What the article doesn't mention is what about all the scalper jobs that will be lost?

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