Saints at Falcons Tickets Lead Most Expensive Week 1 Divisional Games

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While all eyes in the football world will be on the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers opening the season on Thursday night, most of the action will be taking place on Sunday. Five of the 13 games to be played on the first weekend of football will be divisional matchups. The NFL has put a recent emphasis on late season matchups within divisions, but that hasn’t eliminated divisional play in the early weeks. Divisional matchups are routinely some of the most exciting games on the NFL schedule and the opening week shouldn’t be an exception. Below are the five divisional games taking place in Week 1, ranked by secondary market average price, according to TiqIQ.

Saints at Falcons (Georgia Dome) | Avg. Price: $254.39 | Get-in: $103

The most expensive divisional game of the week will also be the most expensive game on the Falcons schedule at home this season. The average price for Falcons vs Saints tickets is $254.39 on the secondary market, 72.5% above the Falcons’ season average of $147.45. The get-in price for Sunday’s game is $103. The Falcons’ second most expensive home game will be against the Steelers on December 14 as the average secondary price is currently $233.84.

Browns at Steelers (Heinz Field) | Avg. Price: $227.86 | Get-in: $61

The Steelers welcome the Browns in their season opener at Heinz Field this Sunday. The average secondary price for Steelers tickets against the Browns is $230.25, 4.4% above the Steelers’ season average of $218.25, with a get-in price of $61. The Steelers won’t get a taste of rookie phenom Johnny Manziel after Brian Hoyer won the starting quarterback role in preseason, but secondary ticket prices remains high for the Week 1 game on Sunday.

Patriots at Dolphins (Sun Life Stadium) | Avg. Price: $190.03 | Get-in: $10

The Dolphins open their season against the Patriots this Sunday and the game will have the second most expensive average ticket price at Sun Life Stadium this season. The average secondary price for Dolphins vs Patriots tickets is $190.03, up 18% from the Dolphins’ season average of $160.98. The get-in price starts at $10 for Sunday’s game. The Dolphins second most expensive game will be against the Packers on October 12 with an average price of $215.20.

Bengals at Ravens (M&T Bank Stadium) | Avg. Price: $187.10 | Get-in: $65

The Bengals travel to M&T Bank Stadium this Sunday to play the Ravens, serving as the fourth most expensive game of the week. The AFC North matchup will have an average price of $187.10 on the secondary market, 4.1% below the Ravens’ season average of $195.26, with get-in price starting at $65. The Ravens have experienced a decline in ticket price on the secondary market following a poor season after their Super Bowl win in 2012. Last season, the season average for Ravens tickets was $218.07, marking a 10.4% drop in average price this season.

Panthers at Buccaneers (Raymond James Stadium) | Avg. Price: $98.65 | Get-in: $20

Rounding off this week’s divisional games is a matchup between the Panthers and Buccaneers in Tampa Bay. The average price for Buccaneers vs Panthers tickets is $98.65 on the secondary market, 31.4% below the Buccaneers season average of $143.85. The get-in price is currently just $20. Sunday’s game will also be the cheapest game on the Buccaneers schedule at Raymond James Stadium this season.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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