$450 Will Buy Only a Cheap Ticket for the Super Bowl

Tickets for the Jan. 28 Super Bowl game in the Louisiana Superdome are going for about $450 each--and that’s for the cheap seats.

The prices are set by brokers who make the market in tickets for the big game, this time with the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos.

The best seats in the Superdome should sell for about $1,250 said Ken Solky, general manager of Murray’s Tickets in Los Angeles. The least desirable seats--in the upper end zones--can be bought for $450, he said.

Although the National Football League set $125 as the face value of a ticket, the tickets are sold out. Those who still want one must buy from brokers.

“With (hotel) rooms being high down there, it makes this game a little too expensive for the average fan,” Solky said Tuesday.

For the corporate set--the high rollers who want to be in New Orleans to party during Super Bowl week--price is no object, Solky said.

“Those folks don’t care who plays or how much it costs,” he said.

Murray’s is based in California, one of two states where it is legal to resell a ticket for more than its face value. The other state is Texas.

In Louisiana, “scalping,” the selling of a ticket for more than its face value, is illegal.