New York (CNN) — The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs may make historical past this weekend, however ticket costs aren’t reflecting that.
The most affordable ticket for Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans has fallen beneath $4,000 on the secondary market, in accordance with reseller TickPick, marking a 30% decline over the previous week — and greater than 50% cheaper in comparison with final 12 months’s record-breaking Tremendous Bowl.
The Chiefs, who face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, are hoping to be the primary staff to win three successive Tremendous Bowl rings. Regardless of that historic feat on the road, followers apparently aren’t excited to splash out large bucks.
There are a number of potential causes associated to this 12 months’s host metropolis — and maybe a slight dose of Chiefs fatigue.
Final 12 months’s matchup between the Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers was the most costly Tremendous Bowl on report, partly as a result of it happened within the celebration mecca of Las Vegas for the primary time. Nonetheless, New Orleans “doesn’t have the identical enchantment” as Las Vegas, TickPick CEO Brett Goldberg mentioned.
New Orleans’ bigger seating capability is pushing costs decrease as nicely, Goldberg mentioned. The Caesars Superdome holds about 74,000 seats, whereas the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas holds round 65,000 seats. The host metropolis can also be nonetheless reeling from a terrorist assault final month when a person drove a pickup truck right into a crowd and opened fireplace, killing 14 people and injuring at least 35.
Then there’s the matchup itself. Soccer followers are bored by a 3rd straight Chiefs Tremendous Bowl bid, leading to TickPick “seeing much less curiosity from followers seeking to attend,” Goldberg instructed CNN. “Had the Detroit Lions, Washington Commanders or Buffalo Payments made it this far, it’d be a a lot completely different story because it pertains to present costs.”
Though the Tremendous Bowl tickets aren’t setting information, the extremely anticipated TV commercials are. Fox has sold at the least 10 of its Tremendous Bowl business spots for upward of $8 million every, an individual with direct data of the matter confirmed to CNN. The community initially sought about $7 million for 30 seconds of advert time throughout the sport.
The $8 million offers had been finished comparatively just lately, the supply mentioned, after some anticipated sponsors sought to surrender their advert time slots.
Tremendous Bowl LIX’s kickoff slated for six:30 pm ET on Sunday. The sport airs on Fox and, in a primary, is streaming for free on Tubi.
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