According to a breakdown of median ticket prices conducted by The Denver Post, the cost of a ticket on the secondary market for the Week 12 meeting between the Denver Broncosand New England Patriots at Mile High Stadium is the highest of any NFL game this season — a staggering median price of $719.28.
That's approaching the median secondary ticket price of $798.63 for the 2014 AFC Championship Game between the same two teams, which turned out to be the most expensive conference title game of the decade. Of course, prior to last season, the median price for the Patriots' 43-21 win over the Broncos in Foxboro on Nov. 2, 2014, was also the NFL's highest for a regular-season game —at a scant $495.
According to the NFL's own official ticket exchange website, operated by Ticketmaster, the cheapest ticket available for the Sunday night game after Thanksgiving in Denver is $323 for a single seat in the 15th row of the nose-bleed section on the upper bowl. If you're famous Broncos fans Trey Parker and Matt Stone of "South Park" fame — and John Elway can't hook you up with a couple tickets — perhaps you'd be willing to pony up the $17,778 price tag for a pair of tickets 26 rows back on the 50-yard line.
Or maybe you're a couple Patriots fans flying from New England and wanting to partake in all that Denver has to offer over the holiday weekend? The cheapest cost for two plane tickets leaving the day after Thanksgiving and returning Monday morning, with a hotel in downtown Denver and a rental car, is $896.
Throw in the average cost for two Pats-Broncos tickets ($1,439), two beers apiece at the game ($27), meals for the weekend (roughly $324) and, of course, a quarter of weed at the local head shop ($74) — oh, and the cost of the few extra bags of Cheetos required following said quarter bag of weed ($21) — and now you're talking $3,677. Somewhere Roger Goodell goes for a Scrooge McDuck swim.
having to deal with 70,000 ppl leaving a game is the worst thing ever.
man I can't disagree more.
