High Super Bowl Ticket Prices? Blame Eagles Fans

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Super Bowl LII is on its way to becoming the most expensive ticket in the game's history and you can thank Philadelphia Eagles fans for that.

The get-in price for Sunday's game on $4,639 as of midday Wednesday, according to data from Seat Geek, much higher than last year's get-in price of about $2,700. The average price is $6,445.50 and the most expensive ticket is being sold by someone who thinks they can get $176,000 for a seat in the top corner of the stadium. Seat Geek's deal score says that deal is an awful one, mainly because the priciest lower bowl tickets are going for between $10,000-$17,000.

Days before the game, 24.1 percent of ticket shopping is coming from Boston and 12 percent is from Philadelphia. Over at StubHub, spokesperson Cameron Papp told CBSSports.com that sales for Super Bowl tickets are up 63 percent and 14 percent of sales for the game are from the Pennsylvania area. Massachusetts accounts for 11 percent of sales.

So why are the prices going so high? TicketIQ points out that the NFL sold more tickets prior to the conference championship as part of packages and bundles on NFLOnlocation.com, leaving fewer tickets to sell on the secondary market. The fact that the Eagles could win their first Super Bowl is a factor as well.

"For fans that go, LII will be an epic 1,300-mile winter trek, with the opportunity to turn the $1 billion Viking ship into Broad Street North. In addition to ending up as an Eagles home game, it may end up as the most expensive Super Bowl ever," according to the website.

Hopefully the Eagles fans will leave Broad Street North in better shape than Broad Street, Philadelphia.