NFL to sell $200 tickets to Super Bowl XLV
If you want to go to the 2011 Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas but want to avoid the long lines and would rather not empty your bank account to go to it, then cough up $200 and bring a picnic blanket with you.
For the first time ever, National Football League is selling tickets to Super Bowl XLV for a measly $200. This is quite a bargain seeing as the best available tickets for the Super Bowl cost $255,000 and the cheapest available are for just over $2,500. So
what’s the catch for these cheap tickets? Well, you won’t exactly be in the stadium.
For the first time ever, fans will be allowed to sit outside of the stadium on the grass on the East Side and watch the game on the enormous television screens there.
“We've never done this before,” Brian McCarthy, the NFL's vice president of corporate communications, said Wednesday.
The offer is exclusively for Cowboys Club Seat season ticket holders and can only be bought in groups of four. The buyers of a group or “block” of four will also receive a parking pass, four Super Bowl scarves and four Super Bowl programs. That’s not bad
at all. Except for the glaring fact that you’re sitting outside of the stadium.
The number of blocks available for the outside party plaza is still being determined and they will count towards the Super Bowl’s official attendance, according to McCarthy.
There are expected to be about 93,000 fans inside the stadium. The record attendance of a Super Bowl was back in 1980 when 103,985 fans packed into the Rose Bowl Stadium.
Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones said that he wanted to set a record for the Super Bowl when the stadium was opened in 2009, although he has no say in the issue because the League makes all decisions about the Super Bowl operations.
Since the $1.15 billion stadium was opened on 26 July, 2009, the Cowboys have already set records for their stadium. They hold the record for the highest attendance for a regular season game when 105,121 people showed up for their game against the visiting
New York Giants.
In January 2010, the NBA also broke a record at the stadium with 108,713 fans showing up for the All-Star game, the most ever for a basketball game.
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