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The Joyflation Of The Superbowl
2015 looks set to be the 'superbowl-est' Super Bowl of all time as far as ticket prices are concerned. As Forbes reports, next Sunday's game will be the most expensive NFL championship ever based on ticket resale price.
The current average list price for Super Bowl XLIX tickets at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., is $6,500, making it the most expensive Super Bowl that TiqIQ has ever tracked. That average is 110% more expensive than it was at the same point one year ago. Last year on the day of the game, the secondary market average was $2,500.
Below is a chart, by day, of the last six Super Bowls and the average price by day for each. As you can see, 2015 has done nothing but move up, and it has yet to peak. With it’s almost vertical climb in the last two days, this year’s game is literally off the chart – or at least redefining the upper limits of the chart.
Based on historical estimates, $3,000 is a good mark to shoot if you just want to ‘get in’.
2010: Saints vs. Colts: $2,329.26
2011: Packers vs. Steelers: $3,649.41
2012: Giants vs. Patriots: $2,955.56
2013: Ravens vs. 49ers: $2,199.08
2014: Seahawks v Broncos: $2,567.00
2015: Seahawks v Patriots: $3,000.00 (est.)
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A rising tide will lift all yachts. All aboard the Titanic. There's live music on the Promenade deck.
Super Bowl: Governor Christis toilet.
As long as they don't perform at a bowl where there are more seats than oligarchs, this ranks right up there with exotic sports cars and other such luxury expenditures.
With modern TV technology, J6P will just stay at home, drink some Buds, and eat take out.
My dad, retired, only activates his cable during football season. This season, they wanted him to pay all kinds of extra shit - on top of the regular cable bill - and he told them to go fuck themselves. These guys are getting greedier each year and at some point will cross the line, the fan base will turn away, and they will BK left/right/sideways given the ridiculous player contracts.
Maybe then J6P might read up on some economics to learn why he can't afford his football (and Buds) ... that will be a hoot and a holler.
Regards,
Cooter
"J6P will just stay at home, drink some Buds, and eat take out."
Take. Is that a Japanese name?
Maybe this is a southern lingo thing, but "take out" means food from a restaurant you "take out" of the restaurant to take home and eat. It usually (but not always) implies low quality/low cost (e.g. McDonalds to go, various pizza delivery, etc). If your lucky, sometimes there is a good BBQ take out, things like that, but usually these days it means cheap, crappy food.
On that note - one last point - the best comment on pro sports I have seen (and I don't really care) was by a foriegner in a bar watching a soccer game who proceeded to point out how our pro sports was SOCIALIST and their sports were CAPITALIST; meaning you can't start a pro team here unless the system lets you in but you can in Europe if you got the bucks to burn.
Regards,
Cooter
Yeah, I always thought of 'take out' and 'delivery' being two distinct things, too. And I'm north of the Mason-Dixon line by a few miles. There is a really good Italian place near me I can order and pick up (i.e. take-out). Not very expensive but compared to Dominos (delivery) or some such made-by-DuPont crap it's haute cuisine.
yo, nfl. wazzup.
here's the thing.
issue each ticket to an individual person. by name.
no resale.
encourage each person to Hold Onto That Ticket, not redeem it.
because in 30 years the superbowl will be even super-er.
that way you can issue more tickets than there are seats.
by a factor of a zillion.
advertise that redeeming a ticket early is a sign of unloyalty to the team and to the game.
make the person redeeming a ticket stand in a special UNLOYALTY line.
when a person attempts to redeem a ticket, require multiple proofs of identity and address and birth and allegiance and employment and team-brand purchases
the point is, sell tickets in such a way to reduce the possibility that they can be redeemed
and keep the money for hookersnblow
hugs,
henry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau,_Jr.
Very interesting, from the link:
The Great Depression, rampant unemployment, and deficit spending were of primary focus for Morgenthau. And after almost two terms served by Roosevelt, Morgenthau assessed the federal effort to relieve economic conditions by proclaiming, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work....We have never begun to tax the people in this country the way they should be.... I don't pay what I should. People of my class don't. People who have it should pay.... After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started...and an enormous debt to boot!"[7]
Well...thank GOD for WWII.
whatever it takes... same thing will happen here when people are eating their dogs.
"when people are eating their dogs."
"Been there... done that..." -- Obola
The Socialist VS Capitalist Sports teams is a very important point. Thanks
Aside from back in the Robber Baron Railway days, the Sports Capitalist Welfare Bitches was the model the Wall Street Welfare Bitches followed.
Put them all in one stadium and melt the place.
Behold! The new religion.
Naw these are the circuses/gladitorial games.
ancient roman craigslist ad:
COLOSSEUM SEATS FOR 1,000 DINARS. 3 ROWS BEHIND THE EMPORER. QUICK ACCESS TO PREMIUM TOILETS. FIRST WINE INCLUDED. GREAT VIEWS OF HUMANS BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER FOR SPORT.
FOR MORE DETAILS SEE BRUTUS AT THE WHOREHOUSE ON THE CORNER OF HERCULES AVE AND ZEUS BLVD.
HAPPY SUPER CIRCUS MAXIMUS BOWL!
Panem et circenses, anyone?
These high ticket prices really deflates my balls !!!
yoohoo Tommy Brady!
Hulk has a couple of soft balls
I got em covered by my hulk theme shorts...
They dont call it the stupid bowl for nuthin' where the sheep get to watch an nwo/illuminati halftime ceremony.
Speaking of Bowls what I have suspected now for so!e time is in fact true namely toilet paper has gotten smaller.
"The Toilet Bowl!"
Its not the Superbowl I know....
If folks have already spent $6500 apiece to go to the game, what's to stop a cabbie from charging $500 to get to the game...or parking garage owners to charge $500 to park?
Kinda like those hot dogs in Davos?
"what's to stop a cabbie from charging $500 to get to the game...or parking garage owners to charge $500 to park? "
Sounds good to me.
These people can afford a limo. If their spending $6500/ticket what's another $1000? Limo's should charge these people at least $500 each way. Want a hot dog? How about forking over $25? A 16 oz beer, $25.
Most of these people could afford $100 hot dogs and $100/per beer.
At Davos the people attending would pay $1,000 for a hot dog. Money has no limit for them.
"2015: Seahawks v Patriots: $3,000.00 (est.)"
Est??
Sounds like somebody's wishful thinking to me. Another "hockey stick" graph. No pun intended.
Dear CIA...please pull your next false flag there.
As an AZ resident, no thank you.
If the CIA is taking requests, my preference would be for planes filled exclusively with government employees over uninhabited areas or the ocean. Keep it tidy and don't bother us proles trying to eek out a living, please.
eke
What a waste of fuck'en money, and seriously who cares.
What? Sorry, I was staring at the girl in the T shirt ad.
I assume that the more "One-Percenty" the ticket prices get, the more advertising will say crap like "it's our game" etc.
I have no desire or plans of watching this years Super Bowl. What's the big deal? Oh yeah, i'm a Packers fan. My season ended a week ago...
49er's vs Bengals - Miami 1989ish
Parked car in the weeds, walked a bit to stadium and found a
couple of young ticket collectors who took a hundred dollar bribe. In we went.
Kept getting kicked out of 'our' seats at field level...
Worth $50 maybe. We were hungover and had nothing else to do.
Why stop at $6500/ticket?
Why not charge $10,000 to $20,000/ticket?
With equities so high people would have no problem paying $10,000 to $20,000/ticket.
If the Federal Reserve has it's Zimababwe economics wish maybe it'll be trillions per ticket in the future.
Is it bad to not want to spend 6500$ US to sit by a bunch of people I would not walk on the same side of the street on and instead watch the game in the pleasure of my own living room on my own large 4K TV ?
The way they make money on those games is that the city that hosts them has to pay taxes for the costs. The tickets only bring in enough for the camera crews.
Go Hawks! I'll watch it from home, thanks.
What's an NFL?
Must be a Latin acronym for sports oriented fascists.
The banksters need to repay us.
"We gouge 'em and how."
Cross out "Religion". Commercialized sports has become the opiates of the masses.
Fuck the NFL
Fuck that butt ugly fucking Reliant Stadium the Harris County taxpayers get to foot the bill for so a bunch of thugs can get rich. And the club owners. How much does it cost just to park in the parking lot?
How much tax does thr NFL pay these days???
How much does it cost us taxpayers to maintain the dilapidated Astrodome? You know, the one we voted to get rid of years ago?
Fuck them all.
I don't like disgusting thugs either and that's why I'm a huge Patriots fan. GO BRADY, GO GRONK, GO BELICHICK, GO EDELMAN!!!!!
WHITE POWER!!!! -----jk lol
My first ever comment on ZH, over 4 years ago, used a sports analogy...still relevant, for your historical pleasures:
Greetings, Allow me to create a little allegorical/analogical scenario: This could be the English Premier League (Man U Vs. Liveherpool)/NFL (CowherBoys Vs. WhyKings)/Sharks Vs. Wings, Sox Vs. Yanks, India Vs. Pakistasn….. take your pick. Basically a bunch of overpaid thugs (broad brush) playing a rigged game in front of Joe/Mary 12 pack and their extended brood. The thugs on-field know the game is fixed (it always is, in case you naively thought otherwise). Meanwhile the crowd bays (for a goal, a hit, blood….anything) All soaked in the “great” history of their team (pop and mom and gramps were dyed in the wool fans too), the seeming halo-istic un-touchability by “normal” of their “heroes (sic sic sick)” and soaked of course to their gills in whichever brand of alcohol (mostly beer, that curse upon humanity, sorry if you are a conniscrewer of fine ales, bud/dud/ice/hein, all causes of decline/decline/decline). So they chant their songs (so much power in the word), wearing their club logo (Logo, logos…. ever stopped to think about that one???), with all the power of the symbol. Meanwhile, time is up (let us take the Man/Liver game here). No final whistle. Scores tied. The thugs know the deal, the owners know the deal (AIG, too funny), the financiers know the deal. All about the merchandise and the Gate. Screw the crowd. The baying gets louder.It’s getting restive, who was injured that badly? Injury times rolls on. The thugs are indefatigable, they run and pass and do their thing. Still no whistle. The baying grows louder. The referee smirks, looks at his clock and says “Play On”. Did FIFA change the rules on the fly? Maybe, only the ref knows. Anything is possible. Can the game go on? Maybe, the thugs are stoked on their millions and the adulation and will run and run till they die (they are of course as expendable as the proletariat in the stands). And yet the game goes on. Beer is running out, crowd is getting restive. Screaming now, railing against the railing, wanting to get at the Blues, the reds the pinks on the other side, forget the game. Split a head, kick some (ones) balls. It’s all about the gratification of innate, TV/gaming induced violence anyways. Now they couldn’t care less, game is tied and still going on. Suddenly a railing gives. Are the thugs safe? Of course. Owners in their box with high security are safe too. The financiers could not care less about anyone or anything, least of all the Beautiful game, plus they set up this opium (now crack) for the unwashed anyways. So the reds and the blues start going at each other, ready to kill, not knowing for whom or what or why, just dazed and crazed and programmed to kill (literally or figuratively) , drink, F##k, repeat. Now the unrest spreads, but only amongst the crowds, the thugs play on, the ref smirks some more…. How do you think this will end and who is really calling the shots? The parallels at every fractal level, including our (intelligentsia’s) sins of omission, commission or participation, vicarious or otherwise should be clear to see and give you a pause next time you peer in your one too many mirrors…. More in a bit…..In four years you should have learned that to make a clear point, paragraphs are your friend.
Maybe the Pats could deflate the ticket prices??
Two cheating coaches square off in what will be a toilet bowl of two very pedestrain teams. I'll pass and do something more interesting like clear my bowels.