Upon winning the AFC Championship Game, New England Patriot's owner, Bob Kraft, thanked all the fans. Quarterback, Tom Brady, called the fans the "12th man". All great words but the actions of the teams and the NFL are just the opposite. Each and every year the season ticket holders, those who support their teams through thick and thin, through the cold, rain, and snow...end up in getting royally screwed when it comes to Super Bowl tickets. The NFL and the teams attempt to hide it, but it is readily evident. Pat Hanlon, spokesman for the NY Giants said he "didn't know how many are reserved for fans". Cappin Bennett, New England Patriot Gillette Stadium Customer Service in response to any inquiry said, " Unfortunately I do not know the number of tickets provided in the Season Ticket Holder lottery". Do you believe them?
Here are the facts. Lucas Stadium in Indianapolis will hold 68,000 people for the Super Bowl. The NFL issues 17.5% or 11,9000 tickets to each participating team, 23,800 in total out of the 68,000, or only 35%. In other words 44,200 or 65% of the Super Bowl tickets go elsewhere...not to the participating teams, and most important not to the loyal season ticket holders.
It gets even worse. Embarrassed on what they do, knowing that they will get severe criticism, they keep it a secret about how many tickets go into the ticket lottery for loyal fans. Past research, however, has shown that only about 5,000 tickets go into the participating team lottery. What this means that only 14.7% of the total tickets at the Super Bowl are provided the season ticket holders of the participating teams. In other words 85.3% go elsewhere...NOT to season ticket holders. This should be an outrage to all and an NFL disgrace.
These 85.3% of tickets available to the Super Bowl go to NFL coaches, players, host team, to advertisers, big money people, politicians, celebrities, and scalpers. It is interesting to note that scalpers, who have a sure system of acquiring tickets each and every year, are so confident of getting tickets that they not only advertise, but guarantee tickets to the Super Bowl weeks in advance.
If a loyal season ticket holder of a participating team wants to attend the Super Bowl, they will most probably have to pay anywhere from $2,200 to $14,250 for a ticket, or higher.
This is an ongoing NFL disgrace. Most disturbing, they don't care, they do it year after year.
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