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.