Are these people mindless sheep or am I just an out of touch old fart?

[tinopuno]

Fans trying to obtain tickets to the Super Bowl in the days just preceding the game were paying $9,000 for the nose bleed seats and substantially more for good seats. To my way of thinking, that's fucking nuts!

LINK:http://www.sdcexec.com/news/11828970...osebleed-seats

I simply don't get it. It's one thing I suppose if you're wealthy, but I would personally NEVER pay even a $1,000 for a Super Bowl ticket. If I somehow did so in a weak or inebriated moment, I would forever after regard myself as just another fool who had been taken in the the NFL's money hungry hype machine.

But then based on the wild applause for that simply awful half time show, it would seem that the proportion of mindless fools in attendance was pretty high.

[WCPhan]

I don't have money to burn (not even close) so the idea of paying above face value for my Birds is absurd.

There are a lot of Microsoft and Intel wealthy people in the Northwest, so who knows what kind of scratch they have laying around.

[Jukin]

I'm with you tino - I couldn't spend that much to go to a game. Although i think I would spend $1,000+ for a game as a thank you to my Dad. I'd pay what I could to take him and my son to see them play in a Super Bowl - but just once! I think my Dad deserves to see them win it all live after spending so many decades watching them struggle. He took me and my brother for many years so it's only right that I would take him. And doing it with three generations would just be the icing on the cake.

[eagles2000]

I paid $1,700 a ticket for the Eagles Patriots 2004 SuperBowl game. As a bucket list deal, I consider it money well spent. However, I would probably not spend this again (hard to say for sure). The one thing that struck me about the game was while there were significant Ealges and Patriots fans, about half the crowd got their tickets from the NFL and didn't care who won, but were only there for the "experience". It made it kind of depressing.

I did enjoy the overall experience but it is very different from a World Series game where 90% of the people are true fans of one of the teams.

If it was really $9,000, I would be watching at home. There is a limit as to what I will spend, and that is certainly over the limit

[Jukin]

I went to Game 5 of the 2008 and 2009 World Series games. I paid face value ($250) for the tickets. Hard to imagine paying $9,000 for a game!

[FRESH]

If you're paying $9k to watch a football game, then money is not an overriding concern in your life. Good for you. I'm not that "flush". I could see paying a grand to watch my birds in the Bowl. I could justify that in my head. It's all about spending where you have need/want for most of us. I just figure.....if I spend a couple grand on a game, then I don't have the two grand to spend on that shiny new turbo that I've been thinking about.

It's a choice.

Now, if I find out that the F-ers are dropping that kind of money on a ticket, while they are ten grand behind on child support payments.....I'm breakin' shit.

[Eagle60]

A grand? Maybe for the atmosphere and a one in a lifetime experience. 9K, are you friekin kidding me??? We're having a discussion now about granite countertops as we speak for 9K that will last a lifetime (not 3 hours) and we're balking.

[NoDakIggle]

Depends on where you are in life. They showed a dozen or so "famous" people during the telecast and I am sure that money is a drop in the bucket for them. And, as someone above said, there are a lot of people that can spend that without blinking in addition to corporate gift tickets. I really don't think they are many "average" fans who go to the game simply because of the cost. But the NFL, ticket resale sites, and scalpers will take whatever they can get for a ticket. Not sure there is any way to control that

[Eagle60]

Depends on where you are in life. They showed a dozen or so "famous" people during the telecast and I am sure that money is a drop in the bucket for them. And, as someone above said, there are a lot of people that can spend that without blinking in addition to corporate gift tickets. I really don't think they are many "average" fans who go to the game simply because of the cost. But the NFL, ticket resale sites, and scalpers will take whatever they can get for a ticket. Not sure there is any way to control that

The first SB cost 12 bucks.