Posted on 02/03/2025 1:10:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Kansas City Chiefs might make history this weekend, but ticket prices aren’t reflecting that.
The cheapest ticket for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans has fallen below $4,000 on the secondary market, according to reseller TickPick, marking a 30% decline over the past week — and more than 50% cheaper compared to last year’s record-breaking Super Bowl.
The Chiefs, who face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, are hoping to be the first team to win three successive Super Bowl rings. Despite that historic feat on the line, fans apparently aren’t excited to splash out big bucks.
There are a few potential reasons related to this year’s host city — and perhaps a slight dose of Chiefs fatigue.
Last year’s matchup between the Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers was the most expensive Super Bowl on record, partly because it took place in the party mecca of Las Vegas for the first time. However, New Orleans “doesn’t have the same appeal” as Las Vegas, TickPick CEO Brett Goldberg said.
New Orleans’ larger seating capacity is pushing prices lower as well, Goldberg said. The Caesars Superdome holds about 74,000 seats, whereas the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas holds around 65,000 seats. The host city is also still reeling from a terrorist attack last month when a man drove a pickup truck into a crowd and opened fire, killing 14 people and injuring at least 35.
Then there’s the matchup itself. Football fans are bored by a third straight Chiefs Super Bowl bid, resulting in TickPick “seeing less interest from fans looking to attend,” Goldberg told CNN. “Had the Detroit Lions, Washington Commanders or Buffalo Bills made it this far, it’d be a much different story as it relates to current prices.”
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That’s what happens when you fix the games.
Football is now as fake a professional wrestling
GO BIRDS!
NFL still around?
Must have missed that.
At this point, Hulk Hogan is more entertaining.
I never heard an official apology from the NFL for defecating on our country.
Eff them!
Fans are sick of the Travis Meathead and Karen Swift made-for-TV romance.
Feminization of the NFL.
“Football is now as fake a professional wrestling”
Add in they
T the NFL gave thumbs up to disrespecting the Flag
With the satan worshipping half time show
Just no
How? Were the ref’s in collusion calling the game?
Maybe, just maybe, a few people are avoiding plane trips for now.
This will be another year where the commercials will be more interesting than the game.................
Going back watching Super Bowl broadcasts from the 70s and 80s, will really show the difference in presentation.
I can’t even stand to watch it now, I might tune in in the fourth quarter if the game is close. Even the commercials suck now.
It's the end of the NFL.
At this rate, Taylor is going to have to sit in the booth topless.
Due to BIASED officiating, I quit NFL watching
in 2015.
Ypu guys want to cheat, fine I watch college
football. which sometimes looks a little shady.
😂
I never THOUGHT the NFL/Super Bowl was fixed until the Chiefs won against the Eagles two years ago.
Now, after the most recent AFC championship game with the Bills losing to the Chiefs I am SURE the NFL is fixed.
So, I will NOT be watching the Super Bowl this year. First time EVER in my adult life.
Same sort of thing happened with NHL hockey. I can’t stand the loud music and sound effects at the game in person and Hockey Night in Canada has become the politically correct Ron Maclean Show.
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