| Is there such a thing as cheap superbowl tickets? | | | | see them as well. Multiply that by the entire |
| Well that depends on quite a few things. First and | | | | country wanting to see this one game and you |
| foremost, what do you mean by the word | | | | see why cheap Superbowl tickets are a bit of an |
| cheap? To me, a cheap ticket is the $5 tickets I | | | | oxymoron. |
| used to buy for the nose bleed seats at the old | | | | Of course, if the situation this year ends up |
| Yankee Stadium. If that is what you are looking | | | | resembling last year's Superbowl then the tickets |
| for, my friend, please plan to attend a super bowl | | | | could end up being a relative bargain (relative |
| party. You will not find anything remotely | | | | being the key term here). Last year, I found a |
| resembling that. In fact, even if you are one of | | | | report in the New York Daily News talking about |
| the lucky few who is able to purchase a ticket | | | | what a bargain super bowl tickets were. Just a |
| for the Superbowl at the official price, it will cost | | | | few weeks before the big day, tickets could still |
| you dearly. Last year, the official price for | | | | be had on Stub Hub, the online ticket broker for a |
| Superbowl tickets exceeded $1,000 for the first | | | | measly $1,500 - $2,000. I suppose calling those |
| time (of course, that was just for 25% of them. | | | | cheap superbowl tickets would make sense |
| The others were mildly cheaper). | | | | relative to typical prices, which exceed the $5,000 |
| Then again, how many of us are lucky enough to | | | | mark in most years (it was said that they were |
| buy tickets for the super bowl at the official | | | | cheaper due to the depressed economy and the |
| prices? The trouble with football's big day is | | | | lackluster teams playing in the big game last year). |
| exactly that. It's a big day, not a big a week. It | | | | Of course, if you really wanted to get cheap |
| really is a bit of marketing genius on the part of | | | | Superbowl tickets, what you should do is to build |
| the National Football league that they have their | | | | yourself a time machine and head back to the |
| teams play just 16 games a season. This way, no | | | | very first Superbowl at the Los Angeles Colliseum. |
| matter how much you want a ticket, you are | | | | Tickets for that game cost just $6, $10 or $12. |
| limited in your chances to get one. After all, when | | | | Now that's really what I call cheap Superbowl |
| you can expect your favorite team to play just 8 | | | | tickets. Too bad a time machine is never around |
| games in their home stadium, you are competing | | | | when you need one. |
| against a crushing number of fans who want to | | | | |