Super Bowl Ticket Price Tops $1,000 for First Time 16/10/2008 |
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A single seat at this season's Super Bowl will carry a face value of $1,000 for the first time, the National Football League said today.
The league's championship game on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, also will have tickets selling for $800, and the NFL plans to make a ``limited number'' of seats available at an unspecified lower cost, spokesman Brian McCarthy said.
This year's Super Bowl, in which the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots, had ticket face values of $900 and $700.
It's the second straight year prices have been increased, and comes a week after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, citing the league's difficulty in financing new stadiums, told reporters that the sport is not recession proof.
The cost of the average Super Bowl ticket has increased 146 percent the past 10 years, compared with a 34 percent rise in the consumer price index. Even with the jump in face value, some tickets to the last championship game were selling on Internet auction site EBay Inc. for more than $4,000 a piece.
(Source: Bloomberg)
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