FANS FIRST Distribution of Super Bowl Tickets

Ray Anderson
Executive Vice President of Football Operations
The National Football League
280 Park Ave # 12W
New York, NY 10017

Dear Mr. Anderson: The Following is proposed:

A "FANS FIRST" Distribution of Super Bowl Tickets - The Way It SHOULD Be Done

It has been well documented how each and every year season ticket holding fans of participating teams get screwed out of their opportunity to acquire tickets to the Super Bowl through the NFL. These are the fans that make professional football what it is today; these are the fans that week after week, through thick and thin, through cold weather, snow, rain...or whatever the conditions... faithfully support their team. Their thanks for this is a total screwing by the NFL and by the NFL owners. It has been shown, and proven, how only approximately 20% or less of the available tickets are actually made available for season ticket holding fans of the participating teams. This means that over 80% of the tickets are distributed elsewhere.

Here is what should be done:

65% of the available tickets should go to the participating teams, 32.5% to each team. Of those 30% MUST be made available to season ticket holding fans of each team through a 3 day lottery where the fans would have to make a financial commitment within those 3 days. If there are any tickets left over they would go to the team and / or to the NFL. The 30% that are made available for season ticket holding fans should be some of the best seats in the stadium. This would demonstrate true appreciation for the fans that make the game of professional football.

5% of the 65% available tickets distributed to the teams above would be for the coaches, players, and team choices; 2.5% for each of the participating teams.

35% of the available tickets would be available to the NFL to use as they choose.

The NFL has the responsibility to do everything possible to keep tickets out of the hands of scalpers and the continuing and escalating outrageous prices that they ask for.

If the NFL really cares about the game of football and the fans that make it, this should be done.