CHEAP FOOTBALL TICKETS

For the first time in NFL history, the top-priced Super Bowl XLIII tickets will have a face value of $1000, the league announced today.  For the National Football League’s Championship Game scheduled to be held on February 1, 2009, in Tampa, Florida, the NFL will make the face price for 17,000 suite and club seats $1,000 each.   Another 53,000 tickets will be priced $800 and the remaining 1,000 tickets will be priced at $500.  It is the second year in a row that the NFL has raised the face price of Super Bowl tickets although the NFL did lower the price for the worst 1,000 of the Super Bowl XLIII tickets.  Super Bowl tickets on the secondary ticket market can command anywhere from $2500 to $4000.

The New York Jets of the National Football League are taking the unprecedented step of putting P.S.L.s (also know as Personal Seat Licenses) for the New Meadowlands Stadium the Jets will share and jointly own with the New York Giants up for auction on the Internet ticket site Stubhub. 

The Jets will take the PSLs for a little over 2,000 of the best seats near the 50 yeard-line called the “Coaches Corner” and upload to Stubhub where fans will be allowed to bid on the PSLs.   Starting bids for the PSLs will begin at $5,000 per seat and are not expected to go for the minimum bid.   Winners of the PSL auctions will then be able to purchase game tickets for the seats which will be priced at approximately $700 each. 

The Jets are using PSLs for the new stadium as are the New York Giants.   The Jets will also sell PSLs in a non auction format and prices will range from $4,000 to $25,000.  The Giants are selling PSLs for similar seats in the stadium that the Jets are putting up on Stubhub for $20,000. 

The Jets will have many seats in the upper level of the stadium that will not require the purchase of PSLs, the Giants plan to sell PSLs for every seat in the stadium.

There are many other professional sports teams that sell PSLs, but this is the first time a team has decided to auction off PSLs.  The auctions are expected to being in October.

NFL football team valuations have skyrocketed.  Here is the most recent data compiled by Forbes magazine. Figures are in US Dollars.

1 Dallas Cowboys $1,612,000,000
2 Washington Redskins 1,538,000,000 
3 New England Patriots 1,324,000,000 
4 New York Giants 1,178,000,000 
5 New York Jets 1,170,000,000 
6 Houston Texans 1,125,000,000
7 Philadelphia Eagles 1,116,000,000 
8 Indianapolis Colts 1,076,000,000 
9 Chicago Bears 1,064,000,000 
10 Baltimore Ravens 1,062,000,000 
11 Denver Broncos 1,061,000,000 
12 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1,053,000,000 
13 Miami Dolphins 1,044,000,000 
14 Carolina Panthers 1,040,000,000 
15 Cleveland Browns 1,035,000,000 
16 Green Bay Packers 1,023,000,000 
17 Kansas City Chiefs 1,016,000,000 
18 Pittsburgh Steelers 1,015,000,000 
19 Seattle Seahawks 1,010,000,000 
20 Tennessee Titans 994,000,000 
21 Cincinnati Bengals 941,000,000 
22 New Orleans Saints 937,000,000 
23 St Louis Rams 929,000,000 
24 Detroit Lions 917,000,000 
25 Arizona Cardinals 914,000,000 
26 San Diego Chargers 888,000,000 
27 Buffalo Bills 885,000,000 
28 Jacksonville Jaguars 876,000,000 
29 Atlanta Falcons 872,000,000 
30 San Francisco 49ers 865,000,000 
31 Oakland Raiders 861,000,000 
32 Minnesota Vikings 839,000,000 

Buy cheap Cincinnati Bengals tickets.   The combination of a tough loss to the Baltimore Ravens, a very slow economy and a weak draw opponent in the Tennessee Titans have contributed to a buyer’s market for Bengals home opener tickets.  Ticket brokers are lamenting that tickets are going for half face price. 

After raising ticket prices more than any other team and fighting Stubhub, the New England Patriots have dropped a substantial number of tickets in price and have made additional tickets available on Ticketmaster due to a season ending injury to star QB Tom Brady.  There has not been a cheaper time to see the Patriots in over ten years.

Many deals to be had.

Team Marketing Report has released its survey of NFL ticket prices for the 2008 season. 

The average NFL Ticket this year will be approximately $72 almost an 8% increase over 2007 ticket prices. 

According to the study, NFL ticket prices have risen over $5 for the fourth consecutive season.  Average ticket prices do not include premium seating. 

The New England Patriots have the NFL’s most expensive average ticket price at $117, a 29% increase over the previous season.  Premium seats for the Patriots average $566 each.

List of NFL Team’s Average Ticket Price (with percentage increase over 2007)

Arizona Cardinals $65.08 14.8%
Atlanta Falcons $63.95 6.0%
Baltimore Ravens $77.20 0.0%
Buffalo Bills $51.24 10.3%
Carolina Panthers $63.32 4.8%
Chicago Bears $88.33 4.1%
Cincinnati Bengals $69.85 6.1%
Cleveland Browns $54.41 11.5%
Dallas Cowboys $84.12 0.0%
Denver Broncos $76.75 7.4%
Detroit Lions $66.39 12.5%
Green Bay Packers $63.39 0.0%
Houston Texans $66.69 6.4%
Indianapolis Colts $81.13 14.3%
Jacksonville Jaguars $55.30 12.0%
Kansas City Chiefs $80.69 9.2%
Miami Dolphins $66.11 0.0%
Minnesota Vikings $73.23 3.3%
New England Patriots $117.84 29.6%
New Orleans Saints $62.22 13.4%
New York Giants $88.06 8.3%
New York Jets $86.99 8.0%
NFL AVERAGE $72.20 7.9%
Oakland Raiders $62.23 0.0%
Philadelphia Eagles $69.00 0.0%
Pittsburgh Steelers $67.47 2.3%
San Diego Chargers $81.39 10.5%
San Francisco 49ers $70.55 13.1%
Seattle Seahawks $61.25 11.9%
St. Louis Rams $68.28 0.0%
Tampa Bay Buccaneers $90.13 24.4%
Tennessee Titans $58.55 7.8%
Washington Redskins $79.13 0.0%

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