CHEAP FOOTBALL TICKETS

StubHub’s Top 10 NFL Season Openers - 2008
Match-up Date Avg. Price
1. Green Bay Packers (vs. Vikings) 9/8 $ 355
2. New York Giants (vs. Redskins) 9/4 $ 301
3. New York Jets (vs. Patriots) 9/14 $ 261
4. Indianapolis Colts (vs. Bears) 9/7 $ 253
5. Chicago Bears (vs. Buccaneers) 9/21 $ 235
6. Pittsburgh Steelers (vs. Texans) 9/7 $ 235
7. New England Patriots (vs. Chiefs) 9/7 $ 188
8. Cleveland Browns (vs. Cowboys) 9/7 $ 183
9. Philadelphia Eagles (vs. Rams) 9/7 $ 180
10. Dallas Cowboys (vs. Eagles) 9/15 $ 177

This NFL season will be the last season the Dallas Cowboys play at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. Texas Stadium opened in 1971 and cost $35 million to build. The Dallas Cowboys New Stadium will cost over $1 billion. Designed to seat well over 80,000, the new stadium will play host the 2011 NFL Super Bowl and ticket prices for the best seats reportedly will skyrocket.

In their last season at Texas Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys will host the Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, New York Giants and Baltimore Ravens. The December 20th game versus the Ravens will be the Cowboys’ last regular season game at Texas Stadium ever.

The kickoff of the 2008 NFL Football regular season begins on Thursday, September 4th when the 2008 Super Bowl champion New York Giants host the Washington Redskins next Thursday night.

• Other interesting Week 1 NFL Football games to note:
  NY Jets at Miami
  Kansas City at New England
  Carolina at San Diego
  Dallas at Cleveland
• Week 1 of the NFL also includes two Monday Night Football Games.

The following NFL football teams are slated to release tickets for individual games for sale to the general public this week:  Buffalo Bills,  Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions and the Atlanta Falcons.

Brett Favre gets traded to the New jork Jets and an irrational exuberance occurs and manifests itself in dramatically higher Jets ticket prices. 

Face value tickets to the NY Jets home opener vs the New England Patriots (face value $104) jumped from under $200 to around $400 pretty much overnight.  Pitty the poor ticket scalper who overslept and sold Jets tickets at pre-Favre prices.

Can Favre really turn around the Jets enought to justify those ticket price increases?  Probably not. 

Is Favre that much of a celebrity brand name?  Are Jets fans desperate for something to cheer for? 

The announcement of Favre becoming QB of the Jets came on the same day as the NFL opened its own ticket scalping exchange place. 

The NFL has launched an official NFL secondary ticket marketpace through a partnership with long hated corporation Ticketmaster.  Watch out ticket scalpers, the NFL wants your profit.