Super Bowl tickets: How Eagles and Chiefs fans can buy them

Now that the Eagles have defeated the Washington Commanders to earn a rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, the first thing on the mind of many Birds fans is: How do I purchase Super Bowl tickets?

The short answer is it’s not going to be easy, or cheap.

The face value of tickets for the Super Bowl on Feb. 9 is around $1,000 for the nosebleed section. But other than a few lucky season ticket holders, most fans will pay thousands of dollars more for a seat at the NFL’s biggest game.

The Eagles are returning to the site where they played their first Super Bowl.

This year’s big game is being held at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the home of the Saints. In 1981, it hosted the Eagles in the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance, a mostly one-sided win by Jim Plunkett and the then-Oakland Raiders.

The Superdome, which opened in 1975, has hosted seven Super Bowl games. Most recently, it was home to the Baltimore Ravens’ 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, which most fans remember for a power outage that delayed the game 34 minutes.

While the stadium’s capacity is normally about 73,000 people, it can expand for big events to hold over 78,000 fans.

In 2018, the Eagles held a lottery for season ticket holders, allowing a select few to have a chance to purchase seats at face value. Something similar occurred in 2023.

As of Monday, some season ticket holders were already notified they were not selected in the Eagles’ Super Bowl ticket lottery, according to emails obtained by The Inquirer.

The NFL distributes 35% of the available Super Bowl tickets to the NFC and AFC champions, with each team getting 17.5%. But many of those tickets go to players, coaches, sponsors, and members of the team’s staff.

It’s virtually impossible for Eagles fans who aren’t season-ticket holders to purchase tickets at face value. For years, the NFL had its own lottery system that gave fans a shot at purchasing tickets at face value, but the league discontinued that practice in 2017.

The NFL has a lottery for fans with disabilities, but entering that required sending a written request by certified mail to the league last year.

(If you have a disability and would like to put yourself in the running for tickets — one wheelchair and one companion seat — to Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., you can send your request for the two tickets, along with your name and address, by certified mail from Feb. 1 through Sept. 1 to: Super Bowl ADA Random Drawing, 345 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10154.)

The Eagles and On Location are selling tickets and hospitality packages starting around $6,600 per person, but that doesn’t include airfare or hotel accommodations. It does include an official Super Bowl ticket and pregame hospitality, including an open bar and “chef curated cuisine.”

The only other realistic avenue to purchase Super Bowl tickets is from reputable secondary sales sites, such as Ticketmaster and SeatGeek. But as was the case with the NFC championship game, it will be pricey — as of early Sunday evening, the cheapest ticket on StubHub was around $5,000 before fees. On Ticketmaster, it was closer to $6,000.

According to NOLA.com, hotel rooms across the city are going for more than $1,000 a night, even outside Orleans Parish.

As of Monday morning, hotels near the Superdome were mostly booked up for Super Bowl weekend, likely snatched up after the NFL announced the city would be hosting the game. Those listed as available were pricey — a room at the Wyndham Garden Baronne Plaza hotel was listed for $861 a night, while a Holiday Inn Express 11 miles away had rooms available for $840 a night.

If you can’t afford the high cost of attending the Super Bowl, the game will air on Fox on Feb. 9 starting at 6:30 p.m. The announcers for Fox will be the same as the NFC championship game — Kevin Burkhardt and future Hall of Famer Tom Brady, in his first year as a color analyst. Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi will be the sideline reporters.