Is there such a thing as cheap superbowl tickets? Well that depends on quite a few things. First and foremost, what do you mean by the word cheap? To me, a cheap ticket is the $5 tickets I used to buy for the nose bleed seats at the old Yankee Stadium. If that is what you are looking for, my friend, please plan to attend a super bowl party. You will not find anything remotely resembling that. In fact, even if you are one of the lucky few who is able to purchase a ticket for the Superbowl at the official price, it will cost you dearly. Last year, the official price for Superbowl tickets exceeded $1,000 for the first time (of course, that was just for 25% of them. The others were mildly cheaper).
Then again, how many of us are lucky enough to buy tickets for the super bowl at the official prices? The trouble with football's big day is exactly that. It's a big day, not a big a week. It really is a bit of marketing genius on the part of the National Football league that they have their teams play just 16 games a season. This way, no matter how much you want a ticket, you are limited in your chances to get one. After all, when you can expect your favorite team to play just 8 games in their home stadium, you are competing against a crushing number of fans who want to see them as well. Multiply that by the entire country wanting to see this one game and you see why cheap Superbowl tickets are a bit of an oxymoron.
Of course, if the situation this year ends up resembling last year's Superbowl then the tickets could end up being a relative bargain (relative being the key term here). Last year, I found a report in the New York Daily News talking about what a bargain super bowl tickets were. Just a few weeks before the big day, tickets could still be had on Stub Hub, the online ticket broker for a measly $1,500 - $2,000. I suppose calling those cheap superbowl tickets would make sense relative to typical prices, which exceed the $5,000 mark in most years (it was said that they were cheaper due to the depressed economy and the lackluster teams playing in the big game last year).
Of course, if you really wanted to get cheap Superbowl tickets, what you should do is to build yourself a time machine and head back to the very first Superbowl at the Los Angeles Colliseum. Tickets for that game cost just $6, $10 or $12. Now that's really what I call cheap Superbowl tickets. Too bad a time machine is never around when you need one.
