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The Super Bowl is one of the biggest sporting events on the planet, and you usually have to fork over a significant amount of dough if you want to attend it in person. Every NFL player is given the chance to purchase some tickets at face value, and more than 100 have ended up in trouble with the league after they got caught scalping them ahead of this year’s showdown.
More than 65,000 people assembled at the Superdome to watch the Eagles dominate the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, and most spectators who watched the game unfold in front of their eyes in New Orleans reaped the benefits of having some enviable connections or dropped thousands of dollars for that privilege.
The so-called “cheap seats” at the venue were being offered for around $3,000 on the secondary market, while the average price of a single ticket ended up hovering at around $8,000.
As a result, the average fan is going to get firmly priced out (especially when you factor in the exorbitant cost of hotels and other travel accommodations). NFL players who didn’t earn the right to compete for a championship do have an opportunity to get into the building for a relatively reasonable price, but a significant number of guys who tried to game the system in 2025 are now facing some retribution.
There are plenty of perks that come with being an NFL player, and that includes the chance to attend the Super Bowl without having to shell out the absurd amount of money you’ll usually need to cough up if you’re going to buy tickets on the secondary market.
That benefit stems from Section 9 of Article 51 of the most recent collective bargaining agreement, which states:
Each Club will provide players with the opportunity to purchase two (2) tickets to the Super Bowl game each year, subject to reasonable safeguards to avoid scalping of the tickets.
According to ESPN, that last concern became a bit of a problem this year, as the outlet reports “at least 100 players from roughly half” of all NFL teams tried to make a quick buck by purchasing tickets they had no intention of using before offloading them to a “small number of ‘bundlers’ who were working with a ticket reseller.”
The terms of the CBA state that any player caught engaging in that practice can be fined 1.5 times the face value of the ticket (which seems like a laughable slap on the wrist when you consider you can easily fetch a higher multiple by scalping). They can theoretically be suspended, but that can only occur if they decline to accept the fine.
The guilty parties will also forfeit the right to buy tickets to the Super Bowl for the next two years, and while no names have been named, I know I’m not the only person who would love to...
