New Jersey requires the NFL to sell 95% of tickets to the "General Public." Goodell breaking the law. Shame on Roger Goodell. I suppose the FINE for the venture by the NFL will be paid for by those sales to the "General Public" in the secondary market.
By Susanna Kim
Good Morning America
Are the Super Bowl's sky-high ticket prices (click here) unfair to the public? That's what Josh Finkelman, from New Brunswick, N.J., thinks, so he decided to sue the National Football League in what he hopes will be certified as a class-action lawsuit.
Finkelman, who works in warehousing, sued this week in federal court in Newark, N.J., accusing the NFL of unjust enrichment and violating New Jersey consumer fraud law, which prohibits withholding more than 5 percent of seating from the public for any event to be sold at other than face value.
In his lawsuit, Finkelman, 28, and his attorneys argue that just 1 percent, or 775 of 77,500 tickets, are available to the public at face value for this year's Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The capacity for MetLife Stadium is 82,500, according to the stadium website.
For most people, a ticket to the Super Bowl is out of reach. The average ticket price now is $3,432.90, according to TiqIQ, a bit less than prices last year around this time, which were $3,521.44....
The NFL has their own scalping site (click here) It makes it possible to purchase tickets and turn around and sell them.
The FINE print:
TICKETS TO SELL
If you wish to list your tickets, (click here) the tickets must be in your possession and be available to be shipped to us within 24 hours. We must have possession of the tickets in order to authenticate and list them on the official ticket exchange. We strongly recommend using a secured carrier such as UPS.
We will require positive identification on any tickets listed. This will include a legible copy of your valid driver's license and a signed confirmation agreement. Details will be provided once you have completed and submitted your request to list your tickets using the form below. You have the right to have your tickets returned to you at any time, at your cost and expense.
If your tickets do not sell by Thursday, January 30th, 2014 we will either (a) ship the tickets back to you, at your cost and expense or (b) transfer the tickets to our Retail/Will Call location in New Jersey. You may select either option on the confirmation agreement. This will insure you have your tickets the Friday before the Super Bowl or available for pickup in New Jersey.
Please note that you will receive payment only if the tickets are sold. Sales are settled on a weekly basis even if only some of your tickets have been sold. A fee of 15% of the total tickets sales price will be deducted at settlement.
Details of where to send your tickets, how you can set and change sales prices, and other options will be communicated to you in response to the completion and submission of the form below.
Please complete the following form to alert us to your ticket sales needs.
In addition to that, Goodell wants to add playoff games as well. The every team Super Bowl End of Season to suck more money out of fans. Wild cards aren't enough.
Posted by Mike Florio
January 7, 2014, 8:35 PM EST
...Expansion, which recently (click here) was touted by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, would entail the addition of one team per conference. That team, a third non-division winner and No. 7 seed overall, would play the No. 2 seed in the wild-card round. Thus, only two teams per year — the top team in each conference — would get a bye.
The addition of two playoff teams wouldn’t necessarily spark a shuffling of the current seeds, with division winners potentially losing their automatic home games in the opening round. Goodell said there’s no momentum within the league for change in the seeding, even though he acknowledged that there may indeed be momentum within the media....
The NFL has their own scalping site (click here) It makes it possible to purchase tickets and turn around and sell them.
The FINE print:
TICKETS TO SELL
If you wish to list your tickets, (click here) the tickets must be in your possession and be available to be shipped to us within 24 hours. We must have possession of the tickets in order to authenticate and list them on the official ticket exchange. We strongly recommend using a secured carrier such as UPS.
We will require positive identification on any tickets listed. This will include a legible copy of your valid driver's license and a signed confirmation agreement. Details will be provided once you have completed and submitted your request to list your tickets using the form below. You have the right to have your tickets returned to you at any time, at your cost and expense.
If your tickets do not sell by Thursday, January 30th, 2014 we will either (a) ship the tickets back to you, at your cost and expense or (b) transfer the tickets to our Retail/Will Call location in New Jersey. You may select either option on the confirmation agreement. This will insure you have your tickets the Friday before the Super Bowl or available for pickup in New Jersey.
Please note that you will receive payment only if the tickets are sold. Sales are settled on a weekly basis even if only some of your tickets have been sold. A fee of 15% of the total tickets sales price will be deducted at settlement.
Details of where to send your tickets, how you can set and change sales prices, and other options will be communicated to you in response to the completion and submission of the form below.
Please complete the following form to alert us to your ticket sales needs.
In addition to that, Goodell wants to add playoff games as well. The every team Super Bowl End of Season to suck more money out of fans. Wild cards aren't enough.
Posted by Mike Florio
January 7, 2014, 8:35 PM EST
...Expansion, which recently (click here) was touted by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, would entail the addition of one team per conference. That team, a third non-division winner and No. 7 seed overall, would play the No. 2 seed in the wild-card round. Thus, only two teams per year — the top team in each conference — would get a bye.
The addition of two playoff teams wouldn’t necessarily spark a shuffling of the current seeds, with division winners potentially losing their automatic home games in the opening round. Goodell said there’s no momentum within the league for change in the seeding, even though he acknowledged that there may indeed be momentum within the media....
