how to buy tickets for the Super Bowl in Arizona

Tickets for the Super Bowl


Rule No. 1: Don't panic. The Super Bowl is one of the hottest tickets in sports, but there are all-inclusive packages from reputable companies if you're patient and do your homework. Don't just leap on the Internet with your credit card in hand.

Rule No. 2 is a little more challenging. Do you know people? More to the point, do you know people who are Packers season-ticket holders who were lucky enough to win a team-sponsored ticket lottery that guarantees a Super Bowl game ticket?

rule No. 3 WHEN WILL THE TICKETS BE IN YOUR HAND ....prices can change by 30% depending on when the tickets are promised to be in your hands


And is that person willing to sell you that ticket?

If you find that person, and you're patient, you might be in business.

Expensive tickets
Indeed, game tickets are pricey. At Tixx.com, prices for a single ticket range from $3,000 to more than $7,000. At StubHub.com, the average price of a ticket on Saturday was $4,462. At Ticketsnow.com, prices start at $3,000 and up.

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Let's start with Supply. "The Superbowl game of course will be played at University of Phoenix Stadium which has a seating capacity that will be expanded to 73,000 for this mega event. In comparison, last year's Superbowl, which was held at Dolphin Stadium in rainy Miami, had seating for 75,000. Using simple math, one can see that supply of Superbowl tickets will be approximately 2,000 (or 2.7 percent) less than last year's availability," says VIPseats.com President Nick Giammusso. Read on.

Demand. This year's Super Bowl demand on tickets, hotels, hospitality and airfare can be described in three words: West Coast Factor. Event planners and ticket brokerage companies say Phoenix is whipping up more West coast Corporate demand for Super Bowl tickets than usual. It's been five years since the Super Bowl has been played out West. The last West Coast city to host a Super Bowl was San Diego way back in 2003.