Super Bowl Tickets

I'll bet you know someone that would love to go to Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville. For the American football fan, it's the ultimate mecca ... an event unequaled in the wild world of sports. So you'd expect Super Bowl tickets to be hard to come by, right?

Not a chance.

If you really want to be in Alltel Stadium on Sunday, February 6th watching the New England Patriots take on the Philadelphia Eagles ... there's nothing separating you from being there. Nothing except the cost of the tickets, that is.

The Internet is packed with ticket agents offering Super Bowl tickets. Overrun, even.

But the prices have to be seen to be believed. Get ready for your eyes to pop out of your head and your jaw to drop ...

The secondary market is no longer the exclusive province of the ticket agents, brokers, and scalpers. The average Joe can post his extra tickets and cash in on the dream. eBay is perhaps the largest force to change the way that tickets change hands. As of this writing, there are 274 "Super Bowl tickets" listings on eBay.

And some of those listings are absolutely out of this world.

How about a package offer of 2 Super Bowl tickets in Section 100 that are bundled with five days/four nights of accommodations aboard the Carnival Miracle Cruise Ship on the St. Johns River. They're yours at the oh-so-reasonable Buy It Now price of just $15,000.

Want to go with the whole gang? For the starting bid of $125,000,000, you can take your chances on a package with 8 Super Bowl tickets and week-long rental of a luxurious 4 bedroom home on Crescent Beach.

With traffic feeding from AOL, USA Today, Knight Ridder, and other media sources, StubHub is one of the most popular venues for the secondary market. And as you'd expect, it's chock full of Super Bowl tickets. As of this writing, prices ranged from a low of $1,550 to a high of $9,000 per seat.

Me? I'll be camped out on the couch, surrounded by snacks and family, with the Tivo remote control in hand. (After all, there's no better way to replay your favorite Super Bowl commercials!)

We'll see if I can make it past the halftime show.

I admit to falling asleep during too many football games. This past weekend was no exception. I woke up in a a daze, just in time to see Broadway Joe Namath pop up at Heinz Field turf to present the Lamar Hunt Trophy to the New England Patriots for their AFC championship game win on Sunday over the Pittsburgh Steelers.