Not To Be A Troll But (Super Bowl)

[imnKOgnito]

As a non season ticket holder who lives about an hour away from the meadowlands, how hard would it be to buy tickets? If it's possible I will pay any price to be there.

On the secondary market it's going to cost at least 2.5-3k per ticket, minimum.

$2500 for top seats
$1500 for the next tier seats,
$1000 for general seating.


Prices according to the nightly news

I am sure you can find places and pay a hell of a lot more

Are you sure that's not face value? As the link I posted before shows, last year a week before the game the cheapest tickets were nearly 2k apiece ( http://www.sbnation.com/nfl-playoff-sch ... price-drop ), and that was after prices dropped. Unless you win the lottery or have nice friends with tickets to spare, you're not getting in for a grand.

 

[bestfightstory]

I would GLADLY pay 2Grand for a Super Bowl.

Can't imagine that will be enough, though.

 

[Subzero717]

I would do everything in my power to be there. The only thing stopping that from an absolute yes, is work related.

 

[OlyHawk]

I told my wife on Thursday night, that going to the SB could be a once in Lifetime. I still need to see my team win a Superbowl, then I probably won't need to go to any more. I was lucky enough to get tickets to SB XL at face value and stay with a relative. I'm going to have to take money out of an IRA to pay for this.

There are some new variables that I'm hearing the NFL is implementing this year. I haven't been able to confirm yet. Such as: 1) Clamping down on scalpers by making you pick up the tickets in New York (This sounds crazy to me and will probably only benefit big time ticket resalers).
2) Prices are being jacked up this year to limit scalping (pad the NFL bank accounts) and because they can.

Buying a new big screen makes more sense, but being there is an incredible experience. I'm dreading NYC in the winter, possible airport delays, high cost.
Part of the experience is the days before, rubbing elbows or drinking with other fans from your team and the opponents team. You need to have a good time before the game, as anything can happen during the game.
Good luck and I hope we get the chance. One week at a time!

 

[Riley12]

Yes, the NFL is raising the initial prices, from the $600 of SBXL to over $2000. Their PR says that it is to fight back against scalpers by making the rate of return lower, but it really is just to buy Goodell a coat made from the skins of seal fetuses.

Still, I will stay true to my word that I will attend every Super Bowl the Seahawks are a part of. Fly into Boston, pick up my daughter, take the train down to Jersey, game, train and fly back again. No hotel. No staying in NYC, which will be frozen over in February.

I was so very disappointed by the Seahawks fanbase for being basically a no-show at SBXL. Granted, Detroit is essentially a northeastern suburb of Pittsburgh when you are thinking about geographical scale in terms of the West Coast, but we traveled so poorly for our first SB appearance, while Steeler fans probably sold their firstborn children into slavery, refinanced their trailer homes and did donkey porn to finance their costs.

 

[Seahawker86]

I live in new jersey and I will be trying to attend the game since this will be the least costly superbowl I'll ever have to attend. I would just need tickets. If anyone who is a season ticket holder will be looking to sell their seats to someone who is LOUD AS HELL let me know. I have to be the biggest Seahawks fan in the state of New Jersey so your tickets would be going to someone who deserves it, keep me in mind. I'll be posting again if we get closer to the game and would like to use pay pal for the exchange.

 

[Largent80]

Yes, the NFL is raising the initial prices, from the $600 of SBXL to over $2000. Their PR says that it is to fight back against scalpers by making the rate of return lower, but it really is just to buy Goodell a coat made from the skins of seal fetuses.

Still, I will stay true to my word that I will attend every Super Bowl the Seahawks are a part of. Fly into Boston, pick up my daughter, take the train down to Jersey, game, train and fly back again. No hotel. No staying in NYC, which will be frozen over in February.

I was so very disappointed by the Seahawks fanbase for being basically a no-show at SBXL. Granted, Detroit is essentially a northeastern suburb of Pittsburgh when you are thinking about geographical scale in terms of the West Coast, but we traveled so poorly for our first SB appearance, while Steeler fans probably sold their firstborn children into slavery, refinanced their trailer homes and did donkey porn to finance their costs.

Hard to top this post.

I will have to watch on TV. Going to school, buying a new car will do that for ya.

 

[FDNYHAWK]

I will be there.
For our Super Bowl in Detroit the seahawks got about 12,000 tickets for the game.
After the team, organization and everyone else got tickets the season ticket holders were placed in a lottery for the remaining 2,500 tickets. Since you could buy up to 2 tickets, 1,250 season ticket holders won the right to buy tickets. So that's 1,250 out of about 60,000 season tickets but since every season ticket holder has at least 2 tickets or more. It's 1,250 out of 30,000. Every season ticket holder gets 1 chance per season ticket they have plus another chance for every yr they've had tickets so I don't know what the hell the actual odds are.
In yrs past, FACE VALUE for Super Bowl tickets were $600, 700, and 900 per ticket. Not sure about this yrs tickets but I've heard they went up and are now $1,000 $1,200 and $1,600.
In the past, 2 weeks or even 1 week before the game the tickets on the secondary market will be about $2,100 and up (will be a lot more if the giants, pats, cowboys or stealers are in the game) .
there are usually a ton of tickets available and since no one wants to pay that, because most have to add airfare and hotel fees, tickets drop a whole lot and can be had for face value a day before the game. This works out well when the game is being played far away from the teams home city. 2 weeks before the first giants pats Super Bowl, tickets were through the roof. Cheapest were around $5,000 each. But since the game was in Arizona and no one wants to travel without a ticket by game day tickets were face value.
This plan was thrown out the window for the seahawks last Super Bowl in Detroit because pittsburge was only 500 miles away.
Different things about this yrs game is its the first in ny which might hurt our chance and the weather, which might help chances of getting a ticket.
Just pray the patriots don't make it because they are only 200 miles away and it will be like a home game for them, a lot like it sucked in Detroit with 90% stealer fans.

 

[nepahawk]

I live 2 hrs. from the Meadowlands. There is a local travel agency that is running a trip.

The trip includes bus, tailgate and SB ticket. $3400 upper tier, $4400 lower tier.

They also offer bus, tailgate with TV to watch the game in parking lot and a raffle to win 2 SB tickets for $200.

 

[Anonymous]

Excellent post, there FDNY, and thanks for being a fireman. A damn selfless job and one that few can do well. Appreciate what all y'all do every day.

Look, here's the deal: I've never been to an SB, but have a handful of clients and friends who have. Aside from the experience you take in from your seat (from about 30 minutes before kickoff until the confetti falls on you), I hear it's a great time. Otherwise, the travel, the lines, the hassles with accommodations, trying to actually get to the game, and the body-cavity searches done just to get in the door, all make the trip a HUGE test of your patience and the limits of your bank account. Out of the 6 folks I've talked to about it, 5 said they wished they hadn't gone, and the 1 is so rich nothing matters to him.

I hate to be a negative Nancy here, but for those of us who toil through life as the middle-class citizen trying to make ends meet, go ahead and drop $800 and get a 55+ -inch TV and an HD receiver and have a party instead. A trip to the Superb Owl is one of those things you can chalk up as having done (especially when we win) but the safer, less-expensive, and better viewing experience is had right in you front room surrounded by about 40 of your closest friends.

Sure, our team making it to the "Owl" is freaking awesome. Winning it after so many years of disappointment is hard to put to words. But spending $2800 bucks to end up missing half the first quarter, only to return to your shady hotel room (80 miles from the stadium) to find what's left of your belongings strewn all over the place, and missing your flight home because of a freak blizzard, is not my idea of a good time.

I'll be hugging, kissing, weeping with joy, and hyperventilating in my own front room come February, and will be able to fill my gas tank the next morning.

 

[FDNYHAWK]

Thanks Houston hawk.
Houston, I understand the people you know who went were clients but were they fans of a team playing. If your just going to the game but don't have a big rooting interest, it's a lot different.
I gotta say, being a life time seahawks fan. There is no way I'm missing going to the Super Bowl.
Even though our last trip was to Detroit, I had a great time in detroit and i went without a ticket so i had a lot of stress until i got one the morning of the super bowl. I loved every minute of it. The only ting that sucked was the outcome of the game. Obviously losing did put a damper on the whole experience.
Now I doubt it's a better experience then being at the NFC championship at home in front of 67,000 seahawk fans, because that was insane but my goal isn't for this team to get to the Super Bowl, it's to win it. So that's the experience I want and I won't miss it.
Also, if I paid 2,800 for a ticket missed the first qrt. And had my hotel room robbed I would've had a shitty experience also.

 

[bestfightstory]

Some Great info FDNY. Definitely appreciate the input.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Houston hawk.
Houston, I understand the people you know who went were clients but were they fans of a team playing. If your just going to the game but don't have a big rooting interest, it's a lot different.
I gotta say, being a life time seahawks fan. There is no way I'm missing going to the Super Bowl.
Even though our last trip was to Detroit, I had a great time in detroit and i went without a ticket so i had a lot of stress until i got one the morning of the super bowl. I loved every minute of it. The only ting that sucked was the outcome of the game. Obviously losing did put a damper on the whole experience.
Now I doubt it's a better experience then being at the NFC championship at home in front of 67,000 seahawk fans, because that was insane but my goal isn't for this team to get to the Super Bowl, it's to win it. So that's the experience I want and I won't miss it.
Also, if I paid 2,800 for a ticket missed the first qrt. And had my hotel room robbed I would've had a shitty experience also.

FDNY, you, my new friend, are a man on a mission, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

If all goes as planned and one is smart, it's a great trip and an excellent experience I'm sure. If somebody invited me I'd go in a heartbeat, I just am the kind of person the breaks everything down to a pro vs. con/cost vs. bang-for-buck basis, and, all things considered, not a choice I'd make. To be honest, not going to the super bowl is a much smaller pill than some I have been forced to swallow. This is coming from a guy who has missed watching only a handful of Seahawks games since the fall of 1976.

My friend and his wife did get robbed going to XL, but an isolated incident they could have avoided, IMHO. They are Seahawks fans, and residents of Lynnwood, WA. The clients I've talked to here were folks that had gone to last year's game and were Ravens fans, so they were all there for their team. Another couple I do business with are Stealers fans, used to live in PA, and have gone to the last two Pittsburg appearances. Funny, I make them remove any and all Stealers-colored stuff from their Stingray before they drive it in my shop. :141847_bnono:

 

[JonRud]

I live 40 miles from the Stadium so there is no way I am missing the Super Bowl if the Hawks are there. I will figure out a way to get a ticket but 100% I will be there at the game.

 

[FDNYHAWK]

Houstonhawk, I totally understand what your talking about and I realize everyone is in a different position in their lives and have to make a decision to go or not to go.
I only have one problem with anything you're saying----

YOU HAVE A CLIENT THAT'S A STEELERS FAN---THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE

 

[TheHawkster]

We're going regardless of whether the Hawks are going or not.
I've never been to NYC.

Gonna spend a night or two drinkin barley pops at Carlow East.
Our room is about a mile and a half away from it.

If we're in it, We'll get tickets.
If we're not, we probably wont.

 

[Anonymous]

Houstonhawk, I totally understand what your talking about and I realize everyone is in a different position in their lives and have to make a decision to go or not to go.
I only have one problem with anything you're saying----

YOU HAVE A CLIENT THAT'S A STEELERS FAN---THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE

Dude, FDNY, I'm sorry, but I'm hungry...

 

[halps80]

Torn. It's a 90min drive for me, but I think it would be more fun to watch with a houseful of friend, or even rent out a hall for a few hundred bucks.

 

[djTOY2000]

I will share my SUPERBOWL experience



Right out in front of Ford Field - Loud and Proud, My brother and I went to XL...
(not pictured was that we took our mom too)

let me tell you, the week leading up to that game was nuts. After winning the NFCCG my brother and I debated it, we decided we were gonna go if we could somehow "afford" it so we started looking at ticket prices. Upper level seats were starting out at around $1000ea. Between he and I both looking at prices everywhere trying to get good priced seats, that was about the going rate the weekend BEFORE the superbowl. Come monday tickets were going bye bye fast and the prices were going up. Tuesday prices were no less than $1500ea. Then looking for last minute airfare, hotel costs, it was getting outrageous. By wednesday seeing that upper level tickets were still $1700-2000ea we just decided to scrap the thought BUT, we received a call from a person that knew how much my brother was a fan who happened to be on the Seahawks practice squad. We were offered 3 tickets from the player (i can't recall his name, but he was allotted 5 tickets from the team). $2500ea BUT they were located in the Seahawks family section - corner endzone (endzone where D-Jack "pushed" off) - 17 rows off the field. Brother and I debated it for a few hours and came to the conclusion that we would take all 3 of them and take our mom with us...

Next came booking flights. We couldn't find a flight into Detroit from Portland, so we opted to fly into Cleveland on Friday from Seattle and rent a car and drive. Ended up staying the night in Cleveland friday night, then booked it over to Toledo to our next hotel location that was still at "normal" nightly rates. Checked in, and then traveled the 2+hrs north to Detroit to do the whole Saturday NFL experience thing and get souvenirs...



After hours of waiting in lines, horrible shuttle bus services for fans, cold, wet rain/snow mix, we got out of there and went back to Toledo. I don't think I slept more than 2 hours that night because of adrenaline and we were instructed to arrive back to the game at least 4 hours prior to kickoff because of numerous security screenings, etc...

Needless to say we made it, we were doing the "SEAHAWKS SUPERBOWL EXPERIENCE"

Driving from Cleveland to Toledo we were probably the ONLY Seahawks fans on the Ohio Turnpike and we were absolutely outnumbered and felt so small but PROUD to be there taking on 1000's dawned in black and gold. Steeler fans everywhere, passing us on the turnpike, but we decked out our rental in BLUE and GREEN. Had fun with many of those drivers that looked at us, flipped us off, some gave us thumbs up, but it was literally like we were in a nasty lowgrade nascar race with how much scum we saw that day on the road. A few highlights were on some of the overpasses there were Cleveland Browns fans rockin their brown and orange, yet holding signs supporting the Seahawks and writings of "Get the F**K out of our state Steelers fans !!"

Gameday was rediculous... i could NOT imagine more of a hostile environment for a superbowl. 1000-1 ratio of stealers/seahawks outside Ford Field. I felt like i was in Pittsburgh stuck in one massive welfare check line that wrapped around every building, into every bar, everywhere was the stealer fans that were just there for the experience - not even attending the game. By far the rudest fanbase i have ever encountered or dealt with. My brother and I had 3-4 little punk kids (10yr olds) come up and shove us, swore at us to the likes of "you guys f*ckin suck. F*CK the Seahawks.... etc etc" and their parents stood there and laughed with them at us. We were getting interviewed by ESPN for being a few of the Seahawks fans in attendance and were absolutely swarmed by black and gold and pushed out of that interview, getting whipped by terrible towels... it was horrible




So on to the game... EVERYTHING was flying by so FAST. Minutes felt like seconds. but we were there...




I could post dozens more game pics, but i don't think we want to re-live that day in hostile land... BUT, I will share the one thing that absolutely pissed me off as a fan that day

There were ushers walking up and down the isles (like beer vendors) about 3-4 times every quarter handing out yellow terrible towels to steeler fans that did not have one - YES... HANDING THEM OUT !!

since our seats were right on the isle, midway through the 4th quarter i asked him where were the seahawks towels to which he replied, "that shipment never arrived" (to which was later determined to be true but never discussed because all eyes were on the officiating - that there was a shipment of 10,000+ green seahawks towels that mysteriously never got dispersed at the game). I then just said "well, if you're just passing these out i wouldn't mind one just for souvenir sakes" and he replied "I've been instructed not to disperse these towels to Seahawks fans"... YEP, i am still speechless to this day over that moment. Feeling like nothing more than an outsider at what was supposed to be a "neutral site" I don't even know what to say.

Many ask... was it worth it ? YES

nearly $4000 for my ticket & airfare, souvenirs, the experience.... etc ??

despite shaking my head in disgust at how hostile the place and the experience was.... YES, I WAS PROUD AS HELL THAT DAY !!

One thing about that game, seeing it in person... there were never any replays shown on the screens within the stadium so most of us Seahawks fans in attendance never got the looks of the officiating as those at home did on TV... we didn't know how bad it was until we got back to the rental car and turned on the radio and listened to all the sports analysts tearing the officiating apart.

It was a long drive back to Cleveland, in the snow, middle of the night... then the feeling of getting screwed, hosed, jobbed, betrayed by the league, all started setting in.

Got back into Cleveland to get on our return flight, only have it delayed by snow, but the lovely people at Delta that supported us as being few and far between Seahawks fans, tired, worn out, upgraded all 3 of our seats to 1st class and I was finally able to close my eyes and get some sleep kinda stretched out in first class seats.

Our flight got back into Seattle about 2 hours before the Seahawks team plane flew in. We were leaving SeaTac and on the radio they were announcing the welcome home gathering down at Qwest so instead of heading south home to Portland, we went and welcomed the team back and enjoyed every moment of Holmgren's speach...

 

[JonRud]

DJ - fantastic trip recap. You are a hero for doing all that despite the miserable outcome.

100% props from me and I hope to meet you in East Rutherford, NJ on Feb. 2nd.