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'Astronomically' high demand leads to surging Super Bowl ticket prices:
A perfect storm of factors is fueling sky high prices for Super Bowl tickets as fans clamor to be a part of Sunday's championship game in Los Angeles.
The Super Bowl is always a hot ticket, but with the Rams playing in their home stadium, die-hard Bengals fans flying in from Cincinnati, and no attendance restrictions for the first time in two years, demand is skyrocketing.
"A lot of factors are making this particular game incredibly unique," Akshay Khanna, general manager of North America for ticket retailer StubHub, told Reuters.
"But look, at the end of the day, that is just a reflection of supply and demand. There are only so many seats that are available for the Super Bowl. And the demand for a game like this is so astronomically high," Khanna added.
The "get in" price for a ticket on StubHub dipped just below $4,000 on Wednesday while the average price of tickets sold on the site was around $6,500, eye-watering amounts that left some fans with sticker shock.
[...] California buyers are driving the bulk of the sales, with residents accounting for over 50% of new ticket sales on Tuesday.
Although the Rams hope that means they will see plenty of blue and gold at SoFi Stadium on Sunday, quarterback Matthew Stafford wasn't so sure.
"I hope our fans are out there going crazy, but the Super Bowl is its own beast in terms of ticket sales," he said during a news conference. "I've seen some of those prices online and they're up there. I understand it is a lot of corporate people buying those and being able to come to the game, but hopefully we have a lot of LA Rams fans cheering for us."
Restaurants scramble to serve enough chicken wings ahead of Super Bowl Sunday
Americans are projected to eat massive amounts of the game day snack, about 1.42 billion wings. That's tied with last year for a record. But this year, there are signs that getting those volumes to consumers is harder and supplies are tighter. Add to that the turmoil that has been dogging U.S. food supply chains, from labor shortfalls to missing ingredients and soaring costs all around.
Restaurants have been scrambling. Some are getting ready to switch to frozen wings in case they run out of fresh. Others are reducing the number of wings that come in an order. In a sign of the times, companies like the one that owns Chili's are booking their chicken orders into the summer and beyond to lay claim to whatever's available.
As Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, likes to point out: chickens unfortunately only have two wings.
Your favorite Super Bowl food like wings, guacamole and beer cost more thanks to inflation
While prices of many individual items are higher, shoppers are expected to spend less on Super Bowl parties than the record $88.65 per person in 2020 when the total reached $17.2 billion, according to the National Retail Federation data. This year, shoppers will shell out $14.6 billion on food, drinks, apparel, decorations and other items for the day, up from $13.9 billion in 2021.
[...] The average price of a Hass avocado was $1.24, and they were available at 5,505 stores, compared with 78 cents last year at nearly 20,000 stores.
[...] Chicken prices have been on the rise: The new CPI report showed chicken parts were up 11.6% in January compared with last year.
[...] Like chicken, beer has been affected by supply chain disruptions, particularly brews sold in cans that are dealing with an aluminum shortage, which is limiting supplies of pet food and other canned goods. [...] Ahead of the new CPI report, the Beer Institute, a national trade association for the American brewing industry, said Wednesday that "beer prices have remained low even during a historic period of inflation." The group said the trend of low beer prices continued last year and trailed the overall CPI 1.8% to 4.7% on average in 2021.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @01:10PM (12 children)
That losing fans because of "woke" bullshit is just that, bullshit. The NFL is a money-making corporation that only looks out for the owners, and they're not paid to promote nationalism either. There shouldn't be any playing of the national anthem before any of the games, that's just some Cold War hype holdover of a bygone era. You won't have any shaming and disrespect during the anthem if it isn't played. The players didn't used to be forced to be marched out for that until very recently, when the NFL decided that it was politically and financially expedient for them. If you doh't want to ban playing of the anthem, then let the players stay in the locker room and prepare for the game. I'm not sure how you can complain about the NFL bring "politics" into things when they have anthem playing and military fly-overs and American Flags that take up the entire field. There's plenty of politics on display, it is just that sone of it is distasteful to you.
Are you serious about suggesting that politics in the Olympics is some recent "woke" liberal thing??? I've never seen The Bachelor nor care to watch it. The Oscars have always been a 'who cares' to me as well, but you're not paying attention if you think political activism and other irrelevant stuff being in acceptance speeches is anything new. I really don't know what you're on about the MLB. Is it the forced rendition of "God Bless America" during the 7th inning stretch? Oh, not that kind of politics?
I don't watch baseball because I cut the cord years ago and now I can't see any games. I'm in the Baltimore and DC markets and can get the broadcast stations from both, but all of the Orioles and Nats games have been moved to cable. The only games I can see are the All Star Game, the World Series, and a "game of the week" that FOX will show mid-afternoon on a Saturday. I didn't give up baseball, baseball gave up me. I don't watch the NFL any more because it is boring and has become a parody of itself. It is a 3+ hour block of commercials broken up by occasional football coverage. The rules have turned into what only a corporate lawyer could enjoy. The broadcast money the league gets is so obscenely large the the teams actually have no incentive to be competent. You get stuck with owners like Dan Snyder who, even if you don't care what kind of degenerate and incopetent person he is, has zero incentive to inprove his organization because he gets a fat wad of cash from the league for simply existing.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 11 2022, @01:36PM (4 children)
https://ussanews.com/get-woke-go-broke-peloton-fires-nearly-3000-employees-and-its-ceo-as-company-implodes/ [ussanews.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @06:12PM (2 children)
You know, I had wondered what was up with youtube dislikes. Why even have the thing if they won't show it?
Is there a reference for why they hid them, or is this just speculation?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 11 2022, @09:25PM
The reason for the dislikes being hidden is actually little more than speculation. But, it makes sense - Goog is very pro-DNC and they would hate to hurt Sloe Joe's feelzies.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @10:34PM
They can continue to use dislikes for the algorithm, the video creators who can still actually see them, advertisers, and possibly for the user to cull certain videos from their own recommendations.
They gave bullshit reasons which you can find here:
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ [blog.youtube]
It's only a coincidence that corporations and others get the benefits of hiding high dislike counts without appearing to have hidden anything themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @07:08PM
What's your opinion on foreign owned companies, like Budweiser, splashing American flags all over their products to sell in the name of "patriotism"? "Rah rah, I drink Bud because I'm an American", even though my beer is Belgian? How is that any different here? A company chooses how they want to target themselves. If it fails, it fails. Plus, your copy pasta argues against your point anyway in that "some think their politics had an effect, but probably not." In fact, that whole opinion piece is one big load of unsubstantiated crap. You'll just believe anything put in front of you as long as it supports your preconceptions, won't you? Why the fuck do you let the Fox News rich coastal elites tell you what to believe? And why do you want to live to be angry all the time? You haven't changed your sig in a while. I used to use it to see what the latest Hannity/Carlson BS being cooked up that you guys are being told to be angry about. You should really try thinking for yourself sometime. You'll be a much happier person and probably have a better feeling of self worth when you stop being so easily manipulated all the time. (Wait! You mean Biden ISN'T buying crack pipes for junkies??? But they wouldn't lie to me like that, would they???)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @03:29PM
Perhaps it's relative. But I don't recall many other nations playing or singing the national anthem and waving so many flags at sporting events. If they started to do that here I think the crowds and audience would cringe. Not to mention what would happen if politicians etc ended speeches with God Bless {insert country here}. It already sounds fake as hell when they start to talk about the Heartland (apparently now it means just "not the big city") and such other imported expressions.
If the NFL, NBA, Baseball, NHL or whatever is or are woke or not. They are probably as woke as the almighty $ will allow. If they think females, people of some colour that isn't white, people of some unknown gender or all those with pink hair would bring in the dollars they will cater to them. That said know your audience, it could really backfire. If the real audience feels or gets neglected so you can fill some goodwill quota to pat yourself on the back they could just stop watching or go someplace else.
That said $4000 to $6500 for a ticket to the Superbowl? Fuck that. It's clearly not a live event for the common viewer or fan anymore, and probably have not been for some time. This is for corporations or people that can put that cost on someone else. That said I don't think live events are for common people at all anymore, the prices per ticket if it's the Superbowl or Soccer or whatever is increasing rapidly. I guess someone has to pay those gigantic salaries. Even tho one would think the tickets doesn't cover much when each player needs millions per year etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @05:30PM (4 children)
You must be one of those who recoils at the sight of an American flag like a vampire does to a cross.
Nothing wrong with being proud of your country. Unity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @06:55PM (3 children)
No, I am quite proud of my flag and my country, which is why I abhor it being cheapened and disgraced by feckless nationalistic displays at sporting events. People who ostentatiously display their patriotism or religious devotion are the ones to fear the most because they are the ones who are least likely to understand either. They are certainly the mostly likely to be duped and manipulated by scoundrels, evidenced by people, who ironically consider themselves "the real Americans" who put devotion to a person over their country and literally used the flag as a weapon to beat and smash the Capitol and those protecting it. It is very hard to find anything that is more un-American than that. It is apparently considered a much more significant gesture to some to put a magnet on your car with an America flag on it than to actually understand the relatively few words written into the Constitution and what the most important founding principles of the country are. No, there is no shame in being proud of your flag and country, that is until you get to the point that you think trivial displays makes one more worthy of being American than others.
You must be one of those despot lovers who want a North Korean like society where devoid of dissent and full of expressions of overt fealty to a supreme leader. We went through many struggles to establish a free country to be out from under such systems. I'd far rather live in a country where a man is allowed to kneel down by his own choice than to have a CCP like system where we are all wearing the same caps and singing in unison and goose stepping in time together.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 11 2022, @08:46PM (2 children)
I get it. YOU get to decide who can wave the flag and who can't. Real inclusive of you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 12 2022, @03:33AM (1 child)
If YOU want to wave a flag, you don't get to be mad when *I* sit the fuck down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 13 2022, @02:42AM
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday February 12 2022, @06:25PM
You could check out the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs [somdbluecrabs.com] in the Atlantic Baseball League. The team names are mundane, but it's a great baseball experience. The quality of play is professional, the games are exciting, and the league works really hard to deliver a family-friendly experience.
Washington DC delenda est.