Super Bowl Ticket Prices Are Super High

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times…

“Super Bowl ticket prices are higher than ever.”

But how high?

2,717 feet, to be exact. To demonstrate the price of a Super Bowl ticket in 2021 relative to past years, we’ll use the world’s tallest building for a visual comparison.

The Burj Khalifa, namely, is the highest building, just as the average secondary market ticket price for Super Bowl LV is the highest, ever. Moreover, the structure is 31% higher than the next tallest building. Similarly, the gap between Super Bowl ticket prices in 2021 and prior years is almost as large.

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Price of a Super Bowl ticket: up, up, & away!

Saying that the price of a Super Bowl ticket has “gone way up” is like saying that Jeff Bezos has a lot of money. Therefore, in order to paint a more vivid picture, let’s compare the big game prices to the regular season, along with their rates of increase.

While the average secondary market price of a regular season ticket has “only” risen in 4 of the 6 years, the overall increase since 2013 is still 32%. 

Lest you think that 32% is high, it ain’t nuthin’ compared to SB prices:

Regular Season vs. Super Bowl Ticket Prices

Source: ticketiq.com

That’s right… The average resale cost for a ticket to Super Bowl LV is 5 times the 2013 price. Furthermore, regular season prices show a 2-year (2017-2019) decrease, while those for the Super Bowl are 129% higher (2019-2021).

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And speaking of 2-year gains, check out the following visual:

If you’ve never heard of FAANG, it’s an acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, & Google, & they’re considered to be the best performing tech stocks. But since 2019, Super Bowl ticket prices have outgained all of them save for Apple . Simply put, SB tickets would be a ‘millionaire maker’ if it were a tradable commodity.

Super Bowl ticket prices history

As you can see, the current price of a SB LV ticket is at a record high of $12,447 ? .

Whether or not that number turns out to be another fluke remains to be seen. In like manner, the average cost in 2015 was 279% higher than the previous year, & 110% more than the next.

If that’s not the case, then hold on to your hats (and wallets), because a basic predictive model forecasts an average price of $15K by 2024:

Can $20,000 be that far away?

Get-In prices

So if you’re seriously considering going to the big event, but the average Super Bowl ticket prices make your eyes bleed, then consider “get-in” costs. The get-in prices, simply, are for the cheapest available tickets.  

Notably, the get-in curve is quite similar to the average prices:

Similar, but at the same time, different. Because while $7,965 is still ridiculously expensive, it’s still 36% cheaper than the average price.

Here are the current get-in prices:

Conclusion

 To have a realistic chance of attending a Super Bowl, you be…

• Well connected,
• Wealthy,
• A season ticket holder,

… or all of the above. 

However, that’s during normal times. Social distancing regulations mean that the seating at Raymond James Stadium will be as little as 20% the normal capacity. The resulting scarcity effectively reduces your existing .6% odds of scoring a Super Bowl ticket to well, nothing.

In any event, welcome back to reality. Indeed, you can forget about Tampa and instead, make sure you’re able to stream Super Bowl LV.