Can Fans buy Super Bowl Tickets at Face Value?
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Yes, the NFL does sell tickets to real fans. But the odds are definitely against you.
NFL Super Bowl Tickets are distributed in the following manner:
- 500 pairs (1000 tickets) are awarded through a random lottery which allows winners to buy 2 tickets at face value for end zone upper level seats.
- 30% of the tickets for the game are given to each team that is playing in the Super Bowl for friends, family, team executives, team sponsors, and a limited number of season ticket holders. (60% total between the 2 teams)
- 10% are given to the host team (the team whose facility is where the game is played) for friends, family, team executives, team sponsors, a limited number of season ticket holders, and local officials and politicians.
- 1% are split amongst the team not in the Super Bowl for friends, family, team executives, and team sponsors.
- 25% are distributed by the NFL to the large corporate sponsors, television networks, VIPS, and Host Committee members, etc.
Each NFL team has their own way of awarding tickets to the Season Ticket Holders if their team goes to the Super Bowl. Most use either entries that are weighted by the number of seats you have, or a combination of seat quantity and years you have been a season ticket holder.
It is too late to get into the lottery for the NFL this year, but here are the general rules:
- Submit an entry between February 1 and before June 1 of the year before the Super Bowl.
- The entry should include your name and address, phone numbers, and email address.
- If selected you will receive notice in October or November of the year before the game.
- The entry must be sent via certified mail, and submitting more than one entry per household will disqualify them all.
- Winners receive the opportunity to purchase two tickets at face value – usually about $400-$600 per seat.
- Super Bowl Random Drawing, PO BOX 49140, Strongsville, OH 44149-0140
The cheapest seats for the Super Bowl usually sell for $5000 - $10,000 per pair on the secondary market. NFL fans should enter every year (and have all their friends and family enter every year) in hopes of scoring tickets to the most popular event in the universe. Non NFL fans should do the same and sell them to pay for whatever your heart desires!
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