Any season ticket holders have any luck

PatsSteve1 · Jan 25, 2008

I went to the 2001 SB against the Rams but bought the tix there, luckily at face value which was $400 that year. I'm not a season ticket holder, but know many and none have hit the lottery. It was a great exeperience to go and see my team win the game. I doubt I ever get the chance again. I would pay double face value but that's it.

Ras · Jan 26, 2008

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.

Red_Sox_Fan · Jan 26, 2008

Free_Pacman said:
what percentage of holders win the lottery?
My family has three different sections of seat and have not won any in any sb.

better luck next time

stick21 · Jan 26, 2008

this is my favorite line of the thread

Once again, the average guy is ****ed by the Krafts.

I have been saying that for years about Krafty BOB since he ran Parcells out of town to hire that Zero Carroll

he could have hired BB the day after the super bowl when every new station in the state had him in Kraftys car but choose to go the 49ers way and sign carroll for some wasted years

fgssand · Jan 26, 2008

stick21 said:
this is my favorite line of the thread

Once again, the average guy is ****ed by the Krafts.

I have been saying that for years about Krafty BOB since he ran Parcells out of town to hire that Zero Carroll

he could have hired BB the day after the super bowl when every new station in the state had him in Kraftys car but choose to go the 49ers way and sign carroll for some wasted years

Kraft is the best owner - EVER - in any sport.

Stick two words for you - STICK IT.

Crowpointer · Jan 26, 2008

Ras said:
Here's last year SB XLI ticket distribution -
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I play basketball with a Lawyer in Downtown Boston who's firm has a box. The box seats 20. He was offered 4 at face ($700 each) and up to the remaining 16 at $2000 each. The $2000 level is the number I had heard from a broker friend was the wholesale price this year. They throw in a party or something if you buy the $2000 tickets. This obviously could suck up many more tickets than you calculated. In any event if anybody is planning on buying a ticket the chances on finding one below $2000 is probably zilch unless you know somebody. The closer you pay to the $2000 wholesale price the better deal (if you can call it that) you are making. Good luck and see you in AZ!!! Remember Tunescribes words of wisdom. "throw logic out or you will not be at the SB"

PATSNUTme · Jan 26, 2008

Ras said:
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.

Welcome Ras.:rocker:

I agree that the average fan is getting screwed. You can say that about regular season games too. People who want to go to games can't get tickets unless they pay big bucks to a scalper. It's the old law of supply and demand.

Hell I remember the days that you could walk up to the ticket counter on game day and buy as many as you wanted.

The Super Bowl has has just gone unreal. And the problem is that people that rally can't afford those prices will go for them anyway. Then they will be paying for it for the next 10 years.

But, that's life.

Patjew · Jan 26, 2008

stick21 said:
this is my favorite line of the thread

Once again, the average guy is ****ed by the Krafts.

I have been saying that for years about Krafty BOB since he ran Parcells out of town to hire that Zero Carroll

he could have hired BB the day after the super bowl when every new station in the state had him in Kraftys car but choose to go the 49ers way and sign carroll for some wasted years

Yeah, damn Kraft for not being omniscient and for having the balls to be human. He actually made a ... mistake???

I'm sure everything you've ever done was right the first time.

And that damn Kraft... the least he could have done was hire BB later and put a management team in place to make them the best sports franchise in the country. But no, he didn't do that, did he?

And clearly Kraft has the history of running coaches out of town. We all know that Parcells is supremely loyal with ZERO history of job-hopping.

Yes, Kraft has brought us 3 Super Bowls, but what else has he done? Besides the millions of dollars in philanthropic work, of course.

You have proven yourself to be a high-minded, thoughtful, non-douche bag on this one.

PS - sorry if I've used words too big for your GED-educated brain to process.

CT_Pats_Fan · Jan 26, 2008

Season tix for 15 years and 0 for 5 with SB Lottery...

And you know what? I'd rather be 0 for 5 in SB lotteries than 1-15. If that's the worse thing we have to b*tch about, life is pretty good.

Marko · Jan 26, 2008

Why does every other NFL team need 800 tickets, that's a little overkill and probably why guys like Tice end up scalping them. If they gave every other team around 200 that would free up an additional 1800 tix or 900 per sb team.

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