Here's last year SB XLI ticket distribution -
AFC Champion - 17.5 percent
NFC Champion - 17.5 percent
Host Team (Dolphins) - 5.0 percent
Other 29 Teams - 34.8 percent
NFL - 25.2 percent
Also, in SB39, the Globe printed the following -
Now using the info from the Cardinals web site,
the stadium has an expanded capacity for the Super Bowl to 73,000.
If the distribution is the same as last year, 17.5%, the Patriots were given 12,775 tickets.
From that figure -
There are 6,000 club seats. For every 2 seats, you can purchase 1 SB ticket. That is 3,000 tickets.
I believe each suite can get access to the same number of tickets that the suites sit. 86 suites, divide in half for seating size, and that could be at least 2,016 tickets.
So right away, over 5,000 tickets of a possible 12,775 have gone to the wine and cheese crowd.
Now remove the tickets for the players, coaches and staff, say 4 each, you remove another 2000.
That leaves about 7,775 tickets.
Now add corporate sponsors, friends and others the Krafts deem worthy, plus travel groups they "partner" with, that leaves who knows how many for the regular guy.
On the Pats website, their "official" travel partner is selling packages to Arizona for the game. 2 of the 6 are already sold out. The remaining package are below.
What is interesting is the cost of the packages with and without a game ticket. The difference between the package is the cost of the game ticket. Since the game ticket is $700.00 and in Massachusetts you have strict anti-scalping laws, you would think the differential cost would be around $700.00. Yeah right!
The average cost is $3,436.25!
Once again, the average guy is ****ed by the Krafts.