Super Bowl Sticker Shock - 25% More Expensive than Last Year

The greedy NFL wants to make the SB pay per view.... turn the greedy rich boys in pajamas off...


Other big sports events like heavyweight champion boxing matches and wrestlemania are pay per view and have been for years.

Not particularly "greedy", just keeping up with their competition.
 
I suspect there is a "surcharge" on ticket prices because it is Vegas, most major cities have high taxes on everything tourism related, this probably bleeds in, the additional taxes on Chicago hotel rooms immediately comes to mind. But it is getting ridiculous for working class people to attend the big game, it seems to be reserved as a playground for the rich these days. Many people probably wouldn't want to go anyway, but some of these stadiums (Raiders, Rams, Vikings, Atlanta, etc) are worth the cost of admission for a regular season game, just to experience a game there.



Fans thinking of going to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl should prepare for a case of sticker shock if they haven’t already purchased tickets.

Prices for the Feb. 11 game are the most expensive on record. Just getting inside Allegiant Stadium to see the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers will cost around $8,000 for a single ticket, which is 25 percent more expensive than the $5,997 “get-in” price of the Super Bowl this time last year, according to data from TickPick, an online ticket marketplace.

The average purchase price of Super Bowl tickets listed on TickPick is $9,804 – 69 percent more expensive than last season’s championship, which saw an average price of $5,795. Data from StubHub indicates the average price of tickets sold on its marketplace is $9,300, though StubHub buyers will incur a fulfillment and service fee that was in the low thousands as of Wednesday.

StubHub’s data shows buyers from California account for 26 percent of all tickets sold. Nevada is next at 8 percent, followed by Kansas/Missouri at 7 percent.

The fact that Sin City is playing host to the largest football game in the country for the first time is a big factor driving demand, but scarcity is also playing a part, TickPick vice president of growth Matt Ferrel said. Allegiant Stadium has 65,000 seats, which ranks 27th among the 32 NFL stadiums by capacity.

“It’s the first Super Bowl in what’s newly kind of being established as the domestic sports capital with F1, the Raiders now being there and teams moving to Las Vegas. And Las Vegas ultimately being a fairly compelling destination for any large-scale event. When you’re talking about the Super Bowl, it’s one of the largest-scale events,” Ferrel said.

The Chiefs and Niners have a history of garnering high ticket prices, as the previous most expensive Super Bowl on record was in 2020 when the two teams faced off in Miami. The average purchase price of that was $6,370, per TickPick.




That virtually guarantees that the true fans are priced out of seeing their teams and the only people who go are rich celebrity types who just want to be seen at the big event.
 
Other big sports events like heavyweight champion boxing matches and wrestlemania are pay per view and have been for years.

Not particularly "greedy", just keeping up with their competition.
Its greed.... it would be greed if an evil oil company slapped an extra charge to pull into a gas station... with what the NFL gets for ads on that day it looks bad and it will turn off millions of fans...
 
Joe Biden has the best Superbowls that people want to attend. Trump superbowls sucked and no one would pay top dollar for that crap.
 
Face value for the tickets is significantly less. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said face-value tickets come at a variety of price points — $950, $1,950, $2,600, $3,250, all the way up to suite tickets in the $8,000 range.

The teams receive 75 percent of the tickets, with the participating teams getting around 17 percent each, McCarthy said. The rest of the tickets go to the league office.

The teams hold a lottery among season-ticket holders, and also hold back some tickets for their partners
 
I suspect there is a "surcharge" on ticket prices because it is Vegas, most major cities have high taxes on everything tourism related, this probably bleeds in, the additional taxes on Chicago hotel rooms immediately comes to mind. But it is getting ridiculous for working class people to attend the big game, it seems to be reserved as a playground for the rich these days. Many people probably wouldn't want to go anyway, but some of these stadiums (Raiders, Rams, Vikings, Atlanta, etc) are worth the cost of admission for a regular season game, just to experience a game there.



Fans thinking of going to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl should prepare for a case of sticker shock if they haven’t already purchased tickets.

Prices for the Feb. 11 game are the most expensive on record. Just getting inside Allegiant Stadium to see the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers will cost around $8,000 for a single ticket, which is 25 percent more expensive than the $5,997 “get-in” price of the Super Bowl this time last year, according to data from TickPick, an online ticket marketplace.

The average purchase price of Super Bowl tickets listed on TickPick is $9,804 – 69 percent more expensive than last season’s championship, which saw an average price of $5,795. Data from StubHub indicates the average price of tickets sold on its marketplace is $9,300, though StubHub buyers will incur a fulfillment and service fee that was in the low thousands as of Wednesday.

StubHub’s data shows buyers from California account for 26 percent of all tickets sold. Nevada is next at 8 percent, followed by Kansas/Missouri at 7 percent.

The fact that Sin City is playing host to the largest football game in the country for the first time is a big factor driving demand, but scarcity is also playing a part, TickPick vice president of growth Matt Ferrel said. Allegiant Stadium has 65,000 seats, which ranks 27th among the 32 NFL stadiums by capacity.

“It’s the first Super Bowl in what’s newly kind of being established as the domestic sports capital with F1, the Raiders now being there and teams moving to Las Vegas. And Las Vegas ultimately being a fairly compelling destination for any large-scale event. When you’re talking about the Super Bowl, it’s one of the largest-scale events,” Ferrel said.

The Chiefs and Niners have a history of garnering high ticket prices, as the previous most expensive Super Bowl on record was in 2020 when the two teams faced off in Miami. The average purchase price of that was $6,370, per TickPick.




I do not understand why anyone would pay that.
 
It's called supply and demand. The rich can afford the Super Bowl prices; the middle class cannot.
It's always been that way. Have you ever priced World Series tickets?

Also: you were gone for a few days and a bunch of loons were convinced that they ran you off.
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The Super Bowl is affordable to the wealthy and celebrities.
 
I'm not going to even bother watching it on TV no less pay thousands of dollars for a ticket to hear them play the filthy ass Black National Anthem.

The woke NFL sucks.
Going the way of Sports Illustrated
 
This is what will happen at the Super Bowl:

The Chiefs win, Taylor Swift rushes out to Travis Kelce and finally gives an interview, in which she endorses Joe Biden, and Travis Kelce proceeds to remind America to get your boosters.
If only haha
 

Super Bowl Sticker Shock - 25% More Expensive than Last Year​


Only because bungholes like you will pay it. Now you know why they made sure KC and Taylor Swift were all part of the game.

And as usual, idiots galore will flock to pay it instead of staying home, boycotting the prices, and showing the NFL that there are limits to their greed and people's willingness to pay through the ass just to watch one more football game (and a horrible, woke halftime show) that everyone already knows the outcome: KC wins 27-13.
 
Only because bungholes like you will pay it. Now you know why they made sure KC and Taylor Swift were all part of the game.

And as usual, idiots galore will flock to pay it instead of staying home, boycotting the prices, and showing the NFL that there are limits to their greed and people's willingness to pay through the ass just to watch one more football game (and a horrible, woke halftime show) that everyone already knows the outcome: KC wins 27-13.
They should have a great TV audience. All the 13 and 14 year old girls hoping to get a glimpse of Tay-Tay and the stupid (go team go!) Sportball idiots.
 

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