Giants – Patriots Superbowl Tickets Go For $1950 Each!

The Superbowl rematch between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots is about to be on and ticket prices are insane!  Yet, there is a dip in sales from last year.  Tickets are going for as much as a whopping $1950, pretty expensive right?  Well that's actually DOWN from last year's price!

Sale prices for the NFL championship game are down about 13% (Business Week)

Sale prices for the National Football League’s championship game this morning were down 13.7 percent from prices paid to get into last year’s game between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers in Dallas, according to TiqIQ, an event ticket aggregator that tracks listings from StubHub, EBay, TicketNetwork and TicketsNow. The tickets have a face value of $800 to $1,200, TiqIQ said, up from $600 to $1,200 last year.

The game is set for February 5th in Indianapolis and tickets on the secondary market, while having a lower face value then last year, are still flying off the websites and going for upwards of $15,000!

The average asking price on the secondary market is $4,054, with the most expensive listing at $15,343 for a seat in Row 3, Section 113 of Lucas Oil Stadium, Chris Matcovich, a spokesman for TiqIQ said, in a telephone interview.

Most tickets are being sold in “zones,” or large areas of similar seats, so it’s often difficult to determine exact individual seat prices, he said. As the game approaches, ticket prices may rise for individual buyers due to the lack of tickets available.

“The Super Bowl has become so corporate, a lot of these tickets don’t go to actual fans of the teams,” Matcovich said. “There are only so many tickets available on the secondary market.”

The current secondary market selling price is 41 percent higher than the $1,378 ticket price for the 2010 game between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts in Miami. The average asking price is 11 percent higher than the $3,650 price asked for tickets a year ago, according to TiqIQ.

Sales Listing

There are 6,900 ticket listings from 15 different ticket companies, according to FanSnap.com, a Palo Alto, California- based Internet search engine that compares prices at the 24 ticket-reselling websites that have seats.

Myself, I'd rather sit at home and get drunk with friends while watching the game.  I could think of many other things to do with about $4,000.  Like a car, nice guitar, maybe a new wardrobe, you know, things I can actually use!

But alas, if you've got the money honey, they've got the time!