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| NY Daily News |
Tickets to the inaugural "AFL-NFL World Championship Game", which was not called the Super Bowl until what we now know as Super Bowl IV, cost, as you can see on the left, a whopping $10. Adjusted for inflation, that is around $70 in 2016 prices, still a pretty great deal.
And a much better deal than anything a ticket-buying fan is going to get attending today's game. The lowest face value for a Super Bowl 50 ticket is $850. (The NFL did make 1,000 tickets available in a fan lottery for a mere $500.) The $10 bill that got you into the game in 1967 wouldn't even get you a beer at today's game; the cheapest brew goes for $13.
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| USA Today |
And, of course, everyone knows you can't actually get Super Bowl tickets anywhere at face value. Ticket brokerages SeatGeek.com and StubHub.com both report average prices for seats for the big game in the $4,800 range. This makes Super Bowl 50 the most expensive sports event to attend in history. Two 50-yard-line seats for the game went to a San Jose buyer for $20,500! Each! (As I type this up, SeatGeek's "cheapest" seats are going for $3,255.)
In a sight that should become routine again in L.A. in the 2016 season, the Los Angeles Coliseum was about 2/3 full for the first Super Bowl. It's officially the only Super Bowl that didn't sell out, though Super Bowl XLVIII reportedly came close.
I think it's also fair to say the sideline entertainment has changed just a little over the years...
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| Actual cheerleaders at Super Bowl I (CNN.com) |
The Super Bowl has had 43 different Most Valuable Players in its 50-year history, and 42 of them are still alive to see today's game. Who's the only Super Bowl MVP no longer living?
Sources: CNN, ESPN, K99.com (Denver), MyFox8.com (Charlotte), Seatgeek.com, Wikipedia
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