I've always wondered the face value of Super Bowl tickets. I'd never seen or heard the actual price. Aftermarket prices on the internet are extremely inflated so they don't give any indication of the what they cost the reseller. Finally, I found the evidence. The face value of some Super Bowl tickets has reached $1,000.
The Associated Press reports that 25 percent of the tickets for this season's game in Tampa will be priced at $1,000, according to the NFL. Tickets for last season's game were priced at $700 to $900.
The prices of 1,000 tickets for this season's game will be dropped by $200 to $500 each, the first Super Bowl price cut.
There will be 17,000 club and suite seats priced at $1,000 each, another 53,000 seats at $800 apiece and 1,000 seats at $500 each.
The only way for the general public to get rights to buy Super Bowl tickets directly from the NFL at face value is through the annual random drawing. You have to send a self addressed postcard registered or certified mail to the NFL. A few months later you'll get a postcard back telling you whether your name was picked. I've never been randomly chosen. As I discussed in my previous football blog post, the number of credit card points needed to get a pair of Super Bowl tickets has risen to 300k. My only route to attend the Super Bowl looks to be buying them from resellers on the internet. I'm going to have to get a second job.
Here's a link to a story about the Super Bowl random drawing. Check out the comment on my post as well.
Don't lose hope. After entering 3 years in a row I finally got picked last year. I remember opening my mail box and seeing a plain envelope with the NFL logo as the return address. I immediately knew what this was. It was November 2nd and they sent me an invoice to purchase 2 tickets at $700 each. My heart sank to my stomach. I couldn't believe it. In January I threw them on ebay, had the auction end 1 day after we found out who would be in SB XLII. They sold for $6,700. God Bless America.
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