This Team Has the Most Expensive Tickets in the NFL

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This Team Has the Most Expensive Tickets in the NFL

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Among the advantages of winning six Super Bowls, including the most recent one, is that demand for home tickets soars. New England Patriots tickets have an average price of $777 this year. The number of tickets available for Patriots games is also the fewest in the NFL for the upcoming season.

TicketIQ analyzes trends and sells NFL tickets on the secondary market, and it has a leaguewide view of demand and prices. The Patriots ticket price is well above that for the next team, which is the Chicago Bears at $510. The lowest price at this point is $98 for the Cincinnati Bengals.

Based on an analysis of ticket price per game, the highest is for the long-time rivalry between the Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers. They play the opening game of the season, and the average ticket price is $1,207. These are the athletes who played for their biggest rival.

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Among the major trends for the new NFL season:

  • $777 – The Patriots have the most expensive secondary market, with the least amount of tickets available on resale
  • $98 – The Bengals have lowest average ticket price on Secondary Market
  • $29 – Get-in price for Broncos @ Seahawks, most expensive pre-season week 1 game
  • 141% – Browns have the highest average price increase and are sold out for the first time in new franchise history
  • $1,207 – Patriots-Steelers on opening night is the most expensive game on secondary market this season
  • $1,026 – Packers-Bears opening night has the second most expensive game this season
  • 3 – Cowboys are visitors in 3 of the top 10 most expensive games, Packers are visitors for 2 of top 10 games
  • 7 – Number of teams sold out, with no tickets available via Ticketmaster or SeatGeek
  • 24 – Number of teams with active direct-to-consumer sales effort for single-game tickets

The NFL is at the start of the preseason. The first regular-season game is between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers on September 5. After 17 weeks, the Wild Card games are on the weekend of January 4, followed by the Division Round on January 11 and the Conference Championship on January 19. The Super Bowl is on February 2. What team is the odds on favorite to win based on data from professional gambling experts? The Patriots.

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There are a handful of teams, like the Los Angeles Chargers and Cleveland Browns, who have yet to win a Super Bowl, but have among the best odds to win it this year. This is the year each team won its first championship. 

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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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