OT: The Cost of Superbowl Tickets

[Uconn93]

Just got an email from Ticketmaster with a link to the NFL Ticket Exchange for the Superbowl and clicked on it out of curiosity. As a Dolphin fan, the only thing I ever have to worry about purchasing is the right size paper bag to fit over my head and a scissor to cut out two eye holes. Although, hopefully that will change with the new coaching staff and more poor 'Fins will be returned to relevancy.

Just to get in the stadium is a whopping $2700/ticket and that gets you a single ticket in the 600 level of the stadium. I've had good to great seats for all four uconn final fours and I don't think I've spent that much on tickets. Thankfully final four tickets are more reasonable.

 

[GavinEdreamy]

Holy hell I do not understand paying that much for a seat 5 miles away from the field. I can watch it with a much better view on a big flat-screen sitting on my couch, and the beer and food is reasonably priced and tastes good. If you're an average middle-class person (those are the people who go after such far-away seats, I imagine) I don't see how you can justify pissing away $2700 on a football game. If you've got a crapton of money that you just don't know what to do with, then have fun, but otherwise I have trouble respecting the moron who would waste a paycheck or two on attending the superbowl.

Sorry for the rant. I'm a dolphins fan as well, so ask me again when the dolphins make the superbowl and I have more money saved (which I certainly shall, because lets be honest the phins aren't making it any time soon).

 

[phillionaire]

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Holy hell I do not understand paying that much for a seat 5 miles away from the field. I can watch it with a much better view on a big flat-screen sitting on my couch, and the beer and food is reasonably priced and tastes good. If you're an average middle-class person (those are the people who go after such far-away seats, I imagine) I don't see how you can justify pissing away $2700 on a football game. If you've got a crapton of money that you just don't know what to do with, then have fun, but otherwise I have trouble respecting the moron who would waste a paycheck or two on attending the superbowl.

Sorry for the rant. I'm a dolphins fan as well, so ask me again when the dolphins make the superbowl and I have more money saved (which I certainly shall, because lets be honest the phins aren't making it any time soon).

hey man i'm a fins fan too. a man can dream can't he haha

 

[mets1090]

How many fish fans can there be on one UConn board.

 

[UChusky916]

I'm a huge dolpghins fan too! Can't stand the Jets or Patriots fanbases so I never liked their teams. I respect the Giants, I guess.

But I've been a Fish fan since I first started watching football and liked their colors. I loved Marino too. Who can't love a team who's logo is a dolphin wearing a football helmet jumping through a hoop?

Superbowl tickets are astronomical. And, as many have stated, I'd rather have a bunch of beers and wings sitting on my couch watching in HD.

 

[imno1]

How many fish fans can there be on one UConn board.

It should be limited to 2

 

[NOTaDIME]

Sorry to crash this Dolphins thread but I'm a TB Bucs fan. Im glad i got that off my chest. Anyone spending 3 large on any ticket is nuts IMO.

 

[Revrat]

Any kid from the 70's is at least a little bit of a Phins fan. I am too. It's probably why I am an A's fan in baseball too. Both teams were winning numerous championships back then. Phins have a huge fanbase. Thats why they always get on TV

 

[gibhunter]

Tickets close to the field are $9,000. Obviously there is still plenty of people in America who use $100 bills to light their cigars.

 

[uconndennis]

I'm a big time Phins fan too. No chance I can root for the Pats, so I'll sort of root for the G-Men I suppose.

Way off-topic but......When I bought my first car, I went to a used car lot with my mother, saw a teal VW Jetta and immediately bought it. I thought I was driving around in the official Miami Dolphins team car or something. Looking back, not very cool at all. Lesson here, never take your mother to help you pick out a car. Her saying things like, "its so cute" didn't even register, all I was thinking about is where my Dolphin decals would go.

 

[NittanyHusky]

Never thought I'd see a Dolphins thread here on the Yard. Even more surprised to see how many fins fans we have here, myself included. I started watching them just when Marino was in his prime and there was nothing like watching him pick apart secondaries with Clayton and Duper.

If the Fins ever make another SuperBowl, I still wouldn't pay $2700+ for a ticket. That's just insane for a single game.

 

[champs99and04]

Yeah, $2700 is just ridiculous. I thought the $350 I spent on the final four a few years ago was expensive, and that was for three games.

 

[1999.2004.2011]

Patriots fan here....I was looking into making the trip to Indy but after seeing the $2700 per ticket price for the nosebleed section, ill gladly watch the game at home. I can't believe that there are still people out there that can afford to spend that much money per ticket, along with airfare, hotel, food, etc

 

[Kitaman]

Holy hell I do not understand paying that much for a seat 5 miles away from the field. I can watch it with a much better view on a big flat-screen sitting on my couch, and the beer and food is reasonably priced and tastes good. If you're an average middle-class person (those are the people who go after such far-away seats, I imagine) I don't see how you can justify pissing away $2700 on a football game. If you've got a crapton of money that you just don't know what to do with, then have fun, but otherwise I have trouble respecting the moron who would waste a paycheck or two on attending the superbowl.

Sorry for the rant. I'm a dolphins fan as well, so ask me again when the dolphins make the superbowl and I have more money saved (which I certainly shall, because lets be honest the phins aren't making it any time soon).

The bathroom logistics is the biggest benefit of home viewing.

One point of advice when driving, always park towards the entrance gate even if you must walk half a mile. You will leave the lot much quicker when the game ends, almost immediately. I see so many people drive as close to the stadium as possible then get stuck 40 minutes trying to leave after the game.

 

[HeGotGame]

WTF is up with all the Dolphin fans? I grew up in CT and live in Boston now, and I have a few buddies who are Dolphin fans too.

 

[Prezidint]

Things have different values to different people.
2700 is not a lot of money, in the big picture of life.
Some folks will spend 10 grand going to disney world. If you paid me 10 grand I wouldn't go to disney world.

If somebody is a die-hard football fan, attending the SuperBowl is better than a cruise ship (again, couldn't pay me to take one).

People will spend 20 bucks here and 20 bucks there on all manner of trinket and bauble and think nothing of it.

I know guys who work for 12 bucks an hour and buy lunch every day. I say, "you spend 5 bucks a day on lunch. If you made your own lunch, you could do it for a buck 50. You could save a grand a year." But having the food made for them has a value to them, so that's their thing.

For example, I spend 0 bucks on TV. If somebody else is spending 100 a month, then that's 1200 a year difference between us. If I go to the SuperBowl every 3 years and spend 3 grand a ticket, it's just a different way to spend money.

 

[hungry husky]

I was born in CT so I'm a giants fan but I live in South Florida now so I pay attention to the Dolphins, even though they are one of the most poorly run franchises in sports.

Back to the original topic, I wouldn't be opposed to spending thousands of dollars for an experience you may only have the opportunity to see once or twice in your life. If you're a true fan of your team and it's a passion like UConn (I'll be at the FF if they make it this year) then I would at least consider making the trip to Indy. But then again, that's why grimy college students camp out in their own feces in NYC; they hate people like me haha.

 

[RS9999X]

I'd buy the Samsung 64 inch, an Oppo Blu-ray SACD MP3 player, and an Xbox with all the goodies.

You know half those tickets are to impress girlfriends who don't know how to pronounce the name Tom Brady.

 

[junglehusky]

I remember kids who were dolphins fans in elementary school in the mid 80's, so it would have around the time the Giants and Pats just made their first super bowls and hadn't been the powerhouses we think of today. I bet a significant portion of Patriots fans today are ex-Dophins fans or ex-Steelers fans.

 

[TheChamps990411]

I remember kids who were dolphins fans in elementary school in the mid 80's, so it would have around the time the Giants and Pats just made their first super bowls and hadn't been the powerhouses we think of today. I bet a significant portion of Patriots fans today are ex-Dophins fans or ex-Steelers fans.

we must be around the same age because that was my experience when i was in elementary school. every other kid was a dolphin fan. fortunately i got caught up in the superbowl shuffle bears season and have been a fan ever since.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Sorry to crash this Dolphins thread but I'm a TB Bucs fan. Im glad i got that off my chest.

After T.ampa Bay hired Scheistano, you won't have to spend $2,700 per Super Bowl ticket. As a Bucs' fan the next few years, it's more likely psychiatrists diagnose you as nuttier than "Anyone spending 3 large on any ticket".

 

[minidarren]

Things have different values to different people.
2700 is not a lot of money, in the big picture of life.
Some folks will spend 10 grand going to disney world. If you paid me 10 grand I wouldn't go to disney world.

If somebody is a die-hard football fan, attending the SuperBowl is better than a cruise ship (again, couldn't pay me to take one).

People will spend 20 bucks here and 20 bucks there on all manner of trinket and bauble and think nothing of it.

I know guys who work for 12 bucks an hour and buy lunch every day. I say, "you spend 5 bucks a day on lunch. If you made your own lunch, you could do it for a buck 50. You could save a grand a year." But having the food made for them has a value to them, so that's their thing.

For example, I spend 0 bucks on TV. If somebody else is spending 100 a month, then that's 1200 a year difference between us. If I go to the SuperBowl every 3 years and spend 3 grand a ticket, it's just a different way to spend money.

I spend 18 on TV, Internet, and Phone.

 

[NOTaDIME]

No kidding...not thrilled with this hire.