Need to See the Patriots Play the Eagles in Tremendous Bowl LII? Tickets Run As Excessive As $66,500

The Tremendous Bowl is all the time a sizzling ticket, however Tremendous Bowl LII was nearly molten.

Minnesota Vikings followers had been hoping to see their residence workforce play within the huge sport at Minneapolis’ U.S. Financial institution Stadium, however Sunday’s 38-7 shellacking by the Philadelphia Eagles means tickets on the resale market aren’t fairly as insanely priced–though they’re hardly low cost.

Entry-level tickets for the Patriots vs. Eagles match-up on most reselling companies, together with StubHub, SeatGeek, and VividSeats, begin within the $four,500-$5,000 vary. A set of six ninth row seats alongside the 40-yard line are presently going for $12,900 every on SeatGeek, whereas one pair of seats in the identical space on the NFC workforce’s aspect (with limitless meals and drinks) can be found for $66,650 every.

On VividSeats, the typical worth for a ticket to the Tremendous Bowl now stands at $5,694, the corporate says. That’s an eight.09% improve in comparison with this time final yr, two weeks earlier than Tremendous Bowl LI.

Ticket costs truly noticed a surge when the Vikings went up 7-Zero in opposition to the Eagles within the first quarter of Sunday’s sport. At kickoff, the typical asking worth was round $four,500, however after that drive, it spiked to $5,400, in accordance with ESPN. By the point the sport was over, the worth was again within the $four,500-$four,700 vary. (VividSeats says it noticed the median worth for listed tickets soar to $6,918 early within the second quarter. That has since fallen about $500.)

Ticket costs aren’t the one factor going for outrageous costs. As of Monday morning, one Ramada lodge in Minneapolis was asking $909 per night time for a room with a king-sized mattress. That’s a 1,196% markup from the same old fee.