High Super Bowl Ticket Prices Don't Deter Some New England Fans

If you don't have some type of connection - getting a super bowl ticket can cost a small fortune.

But that's not stopping some New Englanders from dropping thousands of dollars, a cost they say was worth it - to see the Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks at the Super Bowl in Arizona. Others, though, say no thanks.

The cheapest ticket price on StubHub Friday was $7,480.25. While Super Bowl tickets are always expensive every year, prices are seemingly higher than usual this year. They're so expensive that one Bristol fan who traveled all the way to Phoenix said he decided not to even go to the game.

"Going rate from the last I saw was about 5,000 per ticket - that's a little out of my price range," Al Delavega, of Bristol said.

So why are the prices so hi? Jesse Lawrence, CEO of TiqIQ, said it's a matter of the amount of tickets being sold.

"The inventory levels are at historic lows, there's less than a thousand tickets available right now,
compared to normally at this point at the Super Bowl, we'd see 3-4 thousand," Lawrence said.

But Conn College graduate Tim Walsh, of Lincoln Park, New Jersey got lucky. His dad scored four seats for his family through work.

"We were able to get them through my dad's company thrilled," Walsh said. "It's a once in a lifetime experience so you can't miss it. Have you ever been before? No first time."

Joe Trodello, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, is also feeling lucky.

"We got tickets today - so we're really excited so we're looking forward to it," he said.

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