While this posting may seem to contradict my last, it doesn’t. Because in sports, as in real life, absurdity is rampant. This is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt when an expansion team makes it to the World Series after ten years while a wonderfully storied team waits ten times as long. But I digress.
The economy’s bad, right? Markets are down, the government’s going socialist, and we’re all pretty much doomed financially. Tell that to the 66,000 apparently flush souls who’ll be in attendance at Super Bowl XLIII. According to the LA Times, Super Bowl tickets for the first time "will have a four-figure face value -- $1,000 for a single seat to Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium" in Tampa, Florida.
That’s right. Face value tickets going for a cool grand, and this isn’t even the Granddaddy of them all. This is that game that’s painfully long and usually lopsided.
Sorry if I don’t get it. I’ve been to the Super Bowl. Yes, it’s awesome. But most of the awesomeness comes in the days before the game. Concerts, parties, the hospitality…that IS the show. The game is pretty anticlimactic.
But at the same time, the game is also a Wonder. It’s a Bucket Lister. It’s quite possibly the single biggest annual event in our country. According to The LA Times, “the average cost of tickets to last season's Super Bowl was more than $4,000 in the secondary markets.” You can buy a Super Bowl RING for four thousand dollars.
So economy be damned. And this year will be no different. In fact, this year, prices will be higher, due solely to one man. No, not Manning or Portis or Ware.
Springsteen.
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Great post and even greater ending. That's why Bruce is "The Boss," right?
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