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One Year Out: Hot Tickets
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Published: February 3, 2008
Very few local football fans are likely to find a ticket to the game. Two things are working against them: availability and cost.
The NFL allows each of the two teams in the game to buy 17.5 percent of the tickets, or roughly 12,225 tickets each. The host team can buy 5.5 percent of the tickets, about 3,850 tickets. The owners of the other 29 teams each can buy 1.1 percent of the tickets, or 770 tickets. The NFL gets the rest.
The next obstacle is cost.
The NFL has not released ticket prices for next year's game, but the league is charging $700 and $900 for tickets to today's game in Glendale, Ariz.
That's about double the cost when Tampa hosted in 2001.
Stubhub.com, a Web site that resells concert and game tickets, offered tickets last month for today's Super Bowl for as much as $18,500.
The last hope for fans is the annual ticket raffle. For details, check: www.tampabaysuperbowl.com/.
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