The face value of tickets to Super Bowl 52 ranges from $950 to $5,000, an increase from last season, Yahoo Sports is reporting, citing a source with “intimate knowledge of this year’s Super Bowl ticket release.”
But, as anyone familiar with buying tickets to sought-after events knows, that’s as good as it’s going to get.
While prices will spike regardless of the matchup, if the Vikings beat the Eagles in the NFC championship game, the gap between face value and what the tickets sell for on the secondary market will widen significantly. That’s because with a win on Sunday, the Vikings would become the first team in NFL history to play in a Super Bowl in its home stadium, and Minnesota fans will clamor to get into U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday, February 4.
Should the Vikings get there, ticket prices could skyrocket by as “much as four, five or six times their printed price. Or more,” according to the report.
“Let’s just say that if the Vikings win, there will be a lot of bass fishing boats for sale next week in Minnesota,” joked one broker.
In other words, we know which team avaricious brokers will be rooting for Sunday in Philadelphia.