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NFL’s secondary ticket market is a very profitable business, but when people are simply on scalping tickets, NFL and its team don’t love it. And they certainly don’t love it when players and club staff do it for a super bowl.
But that’s apparently what happened on the Super Bowl Lix, which was played on February 9 at Caesar’s Superdome in New Orleans.
NFL are fines of players and trainers
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Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) scores touchdown on a tush -push under the Super Bowl Lix between Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs on February 9, 2025 at Superdome in New Orleans, LA. (Andy Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
And the league that wrinkles on this caught Scalpers.
The NFL can track the tickets for its games and have the digital capacity to confirm if the people who bought a Super Bowl ticket actually used it.
So NFL fines about 100 players – 100! – And two dozen club staff for violating the league policy of selling the Super Bowl Lix tickets over indicative value, a league source told Outkick Friday. The story was first reported by Associated Press.
NFL is not done. There is a continuous investigation into the case.
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The actual amount of fines varies. Players who resold their tickets have to pay 150 percent of the face value of the ticket they originally purchased. These players also lose their privilege to buy tickets for future Super Bowls unless they actually play in the game.
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Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) calls a spectacle in the hug under the Super Bowl LVII between Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, February 12, 2023 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale. (Adam Bow/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Club employees who were caught scalping will be fined 200 percent of the face value of the tickets they bought.
No names of the players or other employees already caught are known. What is known is that coaches were involved as well as players.
Super Bowl -Tickets are not cheap
This is not the first time this has happened, although the scale this year is something.
Former Minnesota Viking’s main coach Mike Tice admitted to scalping part of his award of the Super Bowl tickets in 2005. Tice was eventually sentenced to $ 100,000 by the NFL.
Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Jalen hurts (1) and Philadelphia Eagle’s head coach Nick Sirianni celebrates with Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl Lix at Caesar’s Superdome. (Mark J. Revilas-prescribed images)
The Super Bowl Lix tickets were on average about $ 4,708 in the secondary market week week, according to various reports. The cheapest tickets started around $ 2,668 at Tickpick, while the most expensive seats, especially those close to the field and sidelines, exceeded $ 10,000.
Some seats for the game between Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles climbed up to prices as high as $ 50,000.
