Super Bowl ticket demand down because 'teams are not sexy'

[Cantpickem]

I would think it would be the cold. I'm holding out for $200 tickets. It is only a train ride to the Metlife for me.

NEW YORK (USATODAY.com) - At this time a year ago, there was speculation the Super Bowl in New York could be the priciest ticket ever. But brokers said Monday the market for the Seattle Seahawks-Denver Broncos matchup is soft, and tickets are available for much closer to face value than anticipated.
And don't blame it solely on the cold weather anticipated for the outdoor game.
Lance Patania, president/CEO of Prominent Tickets, a ticket brokerage in Glen Rock, N.J., said his firm was offering $800 face value tickets for $1,200. In other years, he's seen markets this early in the week in the $2,300-$2,500 range.
Patania said that, in relation to face value, he's never seen it "this cheap this early" in his 25 years in the business.
"A lot of our clients are simply saying they don't want to go. They don't want to sit upstairs for $1,200, even if they were given to them at face value, they don't want to pay $800," said Patania.
"That just sends shivers up my spine. That just shows there's not a lot of local people looking to go. ... Everybody said it's Wall Street , it's New York City, it's North Jersey, a lot of people, a lot of money, they're going to drive the market. It's been doing anything but that."
Patania said it goes beyond the cold.
"The issue with the weather is one thing, but the teams are not drawing," said Patania.
"If this game was in San Diego or Miami, it would still not be a good ticket because the teams are not sexy. ... You don't have these huge fan bases that you would have if Washington or Dallas or New York or someone else was in it."
Not that the NFL is concerned about the resale market.
It set prices for this game at $800, $1,000, $1,200 and $2,500 (club seats with indoor amenities). Another 1,000 tickets were available for $500 each through a lottery. That's down from $650 in the same lottery last year in New Orleans, and the number of lottery tickets was doubled from 500.
The NFL said MetLife Stadium, with a Super Bowl capacity of about 79,000, is sold out.
"We sell the tickets at face value and demand from fans and sponsors has been unprecedented," Brian McCarthy, NFL vice president of corporate communications, told USA TODAY Sports in an email.
"No, we are not concerned with secondary (resale) markets which will ebb and flow but will perhaps enable fans to buy tickets at even more reasonable prices. The concerns about the weather continue to dissipate and we've seen an influx of demand today."
In the parlance of the brokerage business , there are "dead-end prices," the lowest-priced tickets out there.
Tony Knopp, CEO and co-founder of Spotlight Ticket Management, a California-based online firm which helps corporations and smaller companies manage purchases of entertainment and sport tickets from brokers, said Monday he had been informed of Super Bowl tickets available for $1,050.
"There were years in the mid 2000s where the get-in price vacillated between $2,800 and $4,000 right around this time," said Knopp.
Knopp said resale prices also dipped before this month's BCS national championship in Los Angeles.
"Let's juxtapose ... beautiful Los Angeles for a national championship game versus 32 degrees, wintry mix in New York," said Knopp.
"I think there are a lot of people (in the brokerage business) really afraid that we might see another BCS championship style market fall out."

 

[SerfCap]

Best D vs. Best O. Personalities such as Sherman and Beast Mode with names like Manning, Welker, Champ, Wilson and Percy. This a football fans dream matchup. Article reeks of East coast bias. The weather is the main reason behind reduced ticket prices.

 

[cashflow50]

Best D vs. Best O. Personalities such as Sherman and Beast Mode with names like Manning, Welker, Champ, Wilson and Percy. This a football fans dream matchup. Article reeks of East coast bias. The weather is the main reason behind reduced ticket prices.

i concur.. dont know why godell would want to change the miami's and domes..on the other hand..the pro bowl makes him a genius..fantasy football

 

[MackDonald]

Best D vs. Best O. Personalities such as Sherman and Beast Mode with names like Manning, Welker, Champ, Wilson and Percy. This a football fans dream matchup. Article reeks of East coast bias. The weather is the main reason behind reduced ticket prices.

Sitting (in the open).....at night......with temperatures in the teens will freeze the "balls of a brass-monkey".......

 

[JOM]

A Jersey guy here. I have attended 7 super bowls through out the years ( the last one being Indy./ NO in Miami) with friends and the most we ever paid was $500.Every time we just scalped tickets the day of the game. Giants Stadium is a different animal. Regular and playoff games the scalpers hang outside the gates along the roadways leading into the stadium. Its going to be tough for them to get inside the limited parking lots security wise. Not much interest in these west coast teams out here.We expect tickets to be real cheap for this one because of the weather and teams playing, Giant fans already saw the Seahawks kill us this past season. My guess for the best place to find tickets will be from the parking lots ( usually the nearby shopping malls) that will shuttle the people to the stadium. The train station that goes directly to the stadium and the Secaucus Train Station. But please anyone trying to scalp tickets for the game please remember, this is New Jersey and they properly have more COUNTERFIT TICKETS printed up than real tickets, so buyer beware, pay attention

 

[JOM]

P.S. Dont forget in Jersey the ticket brokerage company's send their schills out on the streets once they realize they have to many tickets left and that's when they are real cheap.

 

[MackDonald]

P.S. Dont forget in Jersey the ticket brokerage company's send their schills out on the streets once they realize they have to many tickets left and that's when they are real cheap.

And, having to (do-it) in all that cold-weather (unpleasant working conditions)......ouch.

 

[sendacash]

I'm hearing New Yorkers could care less about this game, there are 18K SB tickets still unsold and people are not going to the events as well. Horrible decision by the NFL to hold the game here, SB needs to be played in SD or Miami or in a dome period.

 

[Cantpickem]

I'm hearing New Yorkers could care less about this game, there are 18K SB tickets still unsold and people are not going to the events as well. Horrible decision by the NFL to hold the game here, SB needs to be played in SD or Miami or in a dome period.

how about London or Mexico city?

 

[r.a.]

Its sad to say, I know. But after you get scammed a couple times, and every single time the guy has been black you just give up on dealing with them.

Ya, like no one has ever been scammed by anyone not black. What's sad is that there are racist morons out there like you who deserve to be scammed. The only reliable way is to buy a ticket from Stub Hub or the NFL where the ticket is guaranteed to be authentic. The scammers on Craigslist send limousines for guys like you.

 

[MackDonald]

I got "scammed" once by a guy who turned-out to be a real horses-ass....I should have know better. They say "there-are more horses asses than there are horses in this world"........you have to be on the look-out for them (the horses-asses) regardless of whether they are white, black, yellow, purple, pink, lavender....stripped or polka-doted......Can't you picture a "chartreuse horses-ass" ?............. It's best to keep the race conversation(s) at the "race-track" where horses race.