Super Bowl ticket prices nosedive

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

1 hour ago, Gregg said:

 

As an added bonus when you are home you can ignore the POS halftime show. At the stadium you have to suffer through it.

Could be worse if you're there live...halftime entertainment could be Jackson Mahomes. 🙁

[BillsShredder83]

My biggest thought on SB tix to see a favorite team is it being a boom or bust gamble.

 

Seeing it live would be a soul changing experience.

 

Seeing a loss live would have me spending $10k to enter into grieving. On top of that im stuck feeling that way around 70k people for hours leaving, when i want to be alone...

 

Dramatic, i know, but its true. 

 

Compare that to 10k vacation: "higher floor, lower ceiling".

 

Most ppl cant afford to do a trip like that ever, but maybe once every 5-10yrs for some. Im going with the sure thing vaca everytime.

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, Bob Jones said:

Actually, I want to cheer against both of these teams. Both fan bases are arrogant & obnoxious & unbearable. LOL The lesser of 2 evils, I think, are the Chiefs, so I hope they win it. 😉

True. Weird that given how much the NFL and TV networks push the Chiefs on us, they just don’t seem to have gathered a big national fan base like the Steelers, Packers, and of course Cowboys. And the Eagles have always been kind of an eastern PA/south NJ market, cut off by Steelers dominance to the west and NYG to the north. Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like the Bills have been gathering a real, sustainable nationwide following, one that I hope lasts longer than the 1990s version 

[SCBills]

This is the Chiefs 3rd Super Bowl in 4 years.  Eagles 2nd in 6.

 

CFP ran into this with Clemson and Alabama constantly going to the Playoffs/Championship and the game being all the way out in San Francisco.

 

Also, KC is a rabid fanbase, but they don't seem to have national pull.  I don't see them taking over stadiums like some of the other notable fanbases. 

 

Edited February 9, 2023 by SCBills

[LabattBlue]

2 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like the Bills have been gathering a real, sustainable nationwide following, one that I hope lasts longer than the 1990s version 

Why is it important that the Bills have a “big national fanbase”?

Edited February 9, 2023 by LabattBlue

[The Frankish Reich]

19 minutes ago, BUFFALOBART said:

For the 1990 title game, I bought a state of the art, 27" Sony Trinitron

I hope you burned the Betamax of that game long before you put the Trinitron on the street corner. 

Just now, LabattBlue said:

Why is it important that the Bills have a “big national fanbase”?

Because it’s fun to finally be the new Packers or Steelers?

[LabattBlue]

4 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Because it’s fun to finally be the new Packers or Steelers?

Strange definition of fun, but to each their own. 😂

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, LabattBlue said:

Strange definition of fun, but to each their own. 😂

I’m guessing you live in WNY. For those of us who don’t, it’s nice to see a little attention given to the Bills. 

[Fleezoid]

8 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

8 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Because it’s fun to finally be the new Packers or Steelers?

 

As long as we don't become the Cowboys or Raiders where folks from all over become fans simply because it's a niche.

[Mc1320]

I started watching prices in September for the get in the door price and they have been consistently been in the $6,000 - $6,500 range up until now.  Good to see them coining down.

[RiotAct]

1 hour ago, 78thealltimegreat said:

In this economy people aren’t going to pay those ticket prices just for a football game much less the other expenses a trip to Phoenix is going to cost.

???  The economy has never been stronger…

[Paup 1995MVP]

2 hours ago, Bob Jones said:

Actually, I want to cheer against both of these teams. Both fan bases are arrogant & obnoxious & unbearable. LOL The lesser of 2 evils, I think, are the Chiefs, so I hope they win it. 😉

Isn't that pretty much all fan bases?  We love our team and think everyone else and their teams suck?!!  

 

As for ticket prices, absolutely ridiculous.  Pretty bland matchup.  Both teams have played well and deserved to be there.  But Philly is as boring a team as it gets player wise.  And everyone knows Mahomes and Kelce.  But they don't really move the meter beyond being football players.  The NFL is the ultimate team game.  Its the best sport, with college football.  But its not predicated on star power.  I would argue Josh Allen is the biggest star in the game.  Bam.  

 

I remember the Bills-Giants super bowl in 1991.  Me and two buddies drove down from Atlanta to Tampa for the game.  Paid $600 each for tickets.  Seemed pretty expensive at the time.  Called a ticket broker from an ad in USA Today.  LOL.  How things have changed.  

[The Frankish Reich]

4 minutes ago, Paup 1995MVP said:

I remember the Bills-Giants super bowl in 1991.  Me and two buddies drove down from Atlanta to Tampa for the game.  Paid $600 each for tickets.

Inflation has slightly more than doubled the cost of an item in those 32 years. So 600 bucks is now $1289. 
I’m not going, but if I were I’d wait a couple more days for those $1289 cheap seats!

[Nextmanup]

3 hours ago, klos63 said:

More likely that most people don't want to pay $6500 for a crappy seat, and get gouged at hotel rooms, restaurants, golf courses.... I live in AZ, the pricing at some of these places this week is outrageous. The Phoenix Open is also going on this week so it's really nuts right now. 

Why wouldn't those factors be prevalent every year though?

 

There's something going on that is unique to this year, obviously.

 

Maybe people think it will be a bad matchup, or they don't like the location of the game, or...

 

 

[ControllerOfPlanetX]

Well, I still paid more than that for eggs last week…

[Liberal Bob]

One if the main reasons that the price is dropping is the fact that the Waste Management golf tournament is also going on this weekend and they will draw close to 175k per day . And that has drove up the hotel and car rental prices. So when you figure out the total cost for traveling to Phoenix this weekend it is just crazy.

[LabattBlue]

4 minutes ago, Liberal Bob said:

One if the main reasons that the price is dropping is the fact that the Waste Management golf tournament is also going on this weekend and they will draw close to 175k per day . And that has drove up the hotel and car rental prices. So when you figure out the total cost for traveling to Phoenix this weekend it is just crazy.

If you are willing to spend north of $5k for a game ticket, I doubt inflated hotel, car rental or airfare prices are going to stop you from attending. 

[78thealltimegreat]

1 hour ago, RiotAct said:

???  The economy has never been stronger…

Job market wages which are at 5.1 percent need to be at least 7 to keep up with inflationary costs. I work for a brokerage house so I kinda have to know this stuff. 

[klos63]

1 hour ago, Nextmanup said:

Why wouldn't those factors be prevalent every year though?

 

There's something going on that is unique to this year, obviously.

 

Maybe people think it will be a bad matchup, or they don't like the location of the game, or...

 

 

Are you sure it doesn't happen every year.  I don't know. 

But prices usually go down as an event approaches.

By today, most people have already decided on going or not. 

[Sierra Foothills]

13 hours ago, I am the egg man said:

Maybe it’s because, I’m just surmising, that Chiefs and Eagle fans don’t travel like other teams fans do.

 

I don't think that's a reason.

 

4 hours ago, klos63 said:

More likely that most people don't want to pay $6500 for a crappy seat, and get gouged at hotel rooms, restaurants, golf courses.... I live in AZ, the pricing at some of these places this week is outrageous. The Phoenix Open is also going on this week so it's really nuts right now. 

 

People have done it before... that's not the reason IMO.

 

4 hours ago, PatsFanNH said:

There is no real interest in the game. No great underdog story,  no one you truly want to cheer against. Add into the fact the Chiefs and Eagles both have won rather e entry and it seems even their fan bases don’t care that much.. law of supply and demand.

 

Plenty of good story lines. That's not the reason IMO.

 

2 hours ago, SCBills said:

This is the Chiefs 3rd Super Bowl in 4 years.  Eagles 2nd in 6.

 

CFP ran into this with Clemson and Alabama constantly going to the Playoffs/Championship and the game being all the way out in San Francisco.

 

Also, KC is a rabid fanbase, but they don't seem to have national pull.  I don't see them taking over stadiums like some of the other notable fanbases. 

 

 

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This is the reason.