I actually took advantage of STEP to pass my father's season tickets (he had them since 1976) on to me. I have been going to games since the late 70's, my first game was a Pitt-PSU game, but Inever thought of buying my own tickets until the STEP program came out. My father died within months of this transaction, and his tickets were something that he cherished. So, the program that almost everyone on this site hates actually worked for me.
Of course, today I could probably just buy these same tickets, but that was not the case at that time.