Have you ever been to a Super Bowl?

[dollars 2 donuts]

21 minutes ago, dollars 2 donuts said:

 

 

Ask the Range.

 

 

 

@Matt_In_NH

 

 

[PS 56]

Superbowl 27, 1992 in Pasadena.  Bills got blown out by the Cowboys.  We were up 10 - 0 and then Kelly was knocked out of the game.  Dallas was heavily favored.  Michael Jackson was the half time entertainment.  He put on a good show.  My brother and I paid $500 each for a seat which we thought was a lot of money at the time.  

[stevens273]

The first Cowboys SB. My ex sold a boat to a Vikings lineman. We live in Az and he played at ASU.  All players back then got 2 tickets. He didn’t care to go so he only asked face value for them. $150. 
We fly to LA without tickets. His agent puts his secretary on a plane and she gets to our meeting spot at will call 5 minutes before kickoff. 
We got to see the famous folks get their tickets at will call. Bo Jackson, Jim Harbaugh and Dennis Rodman among them. 

I killed myself by halftime. 

[In Summary]

On 2/7/2024 at 3:16 PM, machine gun kelly said:

I don’t even go to parties anymore as I want to watch the game undisturbed.

100%

[Augie]

On 2/8/2024 at 7:21 PM, stevens273 said:

The first Cowboys SB. My ex sold a boat to a Vikings lineman. We live in Az and he played at ASU.  All players back then got 2 tickets. He didn’t care to go so he only asked face value for them. $150. 
We fly to LA without tickets. His agent puts his secretary on a plane and she gets to our meeting spot at will call 5 minutes before kickoff. 
We got to see the famous folks get their tickets at will call. Bo Jackson, Jim Harbaugh and Dennis Rodman among them.  

 I killed myself by halftime. 

 

Well, congrats on your comeback! It’s a Super Bowl Miracle!!!    😋

[Boatdrinks]

On 2/8/2024 at 4:54 PM, PS 56 said:

Superbowl 27, 1992 in Pasadena.  Bills got blown out by the Cowboys.  We were up 10 - 0 and then Kelly was knocked out of the game.  Dallas was heavily favored.  Michael Jackson was the half time entertainment.  He put on a good show.  My brother and I paid $500 each for a seat which we thought was a lot of money at the time.  

Seemed to be about the going rate : a friend from work went and he paid $500 outside before game. Bought from Dallas fans lol. Fwiw, $500 at the time is worth around $1,060 in todays dollars. $500 sure would have seemed like a lot at the time, but that $1,060 couldn’t get close to even a nosebleed ticket for a Super Bowl today. 

[HurlyBurly51]

Yep, the 2nd and 3rd Bills appearances, in Minneapolis and Pasadena, respectively.  Minnesota is cold in January😅  But hit Venice Beach in L.A.  I think a friend got me a ticket for I wanna say about $175 in Minny.  Can't believe what the going rate is.

[Success]

Eagles/Pats.

 

It was a pretty negative experience.  Maybe I was just in a bad section, but it felt kind of toxic, and it was hard to see some plays from where I was sitting.  I wouldn't go to another one, especially if it was the Bills playing.

 

Paul McCartney was great, though.

 

[muppy]

I pondered it seriously when it took place in Pasadena.  The game tickets were somewhat reasonable (especially compared with prices now) at approx $500 for a pair. 

 

Ultimately plans fell through we couldn't find any hotel all Booked. **failure gong**

 

I do know that some fans went with no tickets  in hopes of somehow getting in on the cheap. I doubt that worked. Now they'd maybe never even near the gates without tickets. I dunno 

[Billsatlastin2018]

XXV & XXVII

 

 Both, as a result of being a Season Tix holder. We won the ‘Lottery’ twice.

 

For Tampa, I was naive, never thinking the Bills would make it to a SB. Didn’t pay, but paid a family scalper $500! Memorable trip, spent in Ft. Lauderdale from Wednesday on… the racing up early morning to Tampa. Partied with my buddies and Wife’s family, who were Giants fans! Sooo confident, bet my cousin $1000. Just remember, that was in 1990. 
Norwood could have made me $400 on a Vegas future… but noooooo. 😂

 

XXVII we spent 3 days before in Vegas and 2 after. Played touch football at UNLV, casino gambling, crazy stories. Raced over like madmen, through Death Valley and the San Bernadinos about 90 mph.

 

When I was young!

 

p.s. Still have cushions, programs, hats, Beer mugs, cups, gear for all 4 Bills ones and the 4x AFC Champion Bills flag! 

 

 

[Preds]

I've been to two Super Bowls. XXVIII in Atlanta (Bills vs Cowboys), and XXXVII in San Diego (Raiders vs Bucs)

My tix for SB 28 came from then Bills Offensive Coordinator Tom Bresnahan, via a doctor I worked with at the time who rented a house to him. Paid face value, which was $175 with the promise that they would not be re-sold (was offered $2k a ticket before thegame but kept my promise not to resell).  They were great seats on the Bills sideline 14 rows up at about the 20-25 yardline.  The seats were great, but it was a really stange ambiance around us.  Most of the seats around us should have been from the Bills organization, however, it was mostly corporate nobodies who couldn't care less about who won, and rooted obnoxiously for whichever team held the lead.  One story from that game that I'll never forget is my experiences at halftime and the start of the 3rd quarter.  At halftime at least 20-30 Cowboy fans came up to me in my Thurman jersey conceding that this was the Bills year and that they Cowboys were toast.  As a Bills fan, I was hesitent to agree as I had learned to never count a win until the final second clicks off the clock (how that continues to be with this organization).  Unfortunately that hesitancy was spot on, as Thurman fumbled at the beginning of the 3rd, and then sat on the bench directly in front of us, moping with his head down in his hands for the rest of the quarter.  I was screaming at the coaches and players to get him back in the game, and to not let him mope, however, I don't recall a single player or coach coming up to him for almost the entire quarter.  I was so pissed as the team fell apart from that point forward, instead of fighting off the bad juju and getting him back in the game.  Of course exiting the Georgia Dome with the ridiculous gloating of the Cowboy fans, many of them the same ones who had essentially given up at halftime, just sucked!

For SB 37, I attended rooting for the Bucs as they have been my NFC team out of pity for that franchise since way back in the original creamsicle jersey days.  I got those tix gratis from a business contact and we had geat 50 yard line seats on the Bucs sideline (albeit high up in the upper deck).  The SB at Qualcomm was a phenomenal experience, both with the Bucs fans around us, and so many we met from Raider Nation.  That game felt more like a college experience as for the most part the Bucs fans were on the Bucs side of the field, and Raider Nation was on the Raiders sideline.  Curiously we had a random couple that were Raider fans sitting next to us who ended up being a lot of fun to party with.  At halftime, another couple came up to our seats offering the Raider fans next to us to swap with their near identical seats on the Raiders side of the stadium.  They declined as they preferred hanging out with us and the rest of the Bucs fans, over the ***** show they anticipated it would be on the Raiders sideline!

All that said, I wouldn't pay for tickets for a future Super Bowl, especially at the ridiculous prices, though I might consider traelling to the city to enjoy the ambiance to enjoy the Super Bowl hype and activites, then watch the actual game at a good bar.  Attending the game itself is just not rempotely worth the cost IMO, especially at the prices they're running for these days.

Edited February 11 by Preds