NFL to charge people $200 to stand outside Super Bowl stadium...

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For one-third the price of a regular ticket, NFL fans will be able to stand outside Cowboys Stadium and act like they are attending the Super Bowl XLV. The league announced on Wednesday that tickets to watch the game on large HD video screens on the east side of the stadium will cost $200. They're calling it the "party plaza," because what's more of a party than spending two bills to go through a security line for the right to sit on a grassy knoll, pay $9 for a beer and watch a game that's freely available on television? Tickets will first be offered to Cowboys season-ticket holders who will have to buy in blocks of four. The $800 will cover four tickets to watch the game, four programs, four scarves and a parking pass. Scarves? For that price, they better be Burberry. "We've never done this before," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told ESPN Dallas of the league's plan to price-gouge folks who want to attend the Super Bowl without actually attending the Super Bowl. Besides additional revenue, the biggest upside for the Cowboys is that those buying tickets to the party plaza will count toward the game's official attendance. Jerry Jones has expressed a desire to break the Super Bowl record for biggest crowd, which was set in 1980 when 103,985 attended the game at the Rose Bowl. How people standing outside a stadium counts as attendance is beyond me. If you're standing next to an unplugged TV, does that mean you'll be tallied in the Nielsen ratings?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-309783

[Chrisksaint]

......Just depressing. I spent like $50 I think last year to tailgate some before the SB last year, before heading back home to watch the game but that was one of the funnest experiences ever. I wouldn't ever spend $200 just to sit outside on grass to watch a game on a TV.

[Cebby]

If people want to pay, then let them.

[p_rushing]

Are they closing this area off? Are they putting something up to block anyone standing just outside of the area from seeing the huge TV screens?

[TexasBorn1]

I love the Death Star, but no thanks.

I am sure someone will pay though

[mKoz26]

Did the journalist really refer to the area as a "grassy knoll"? In Dallas?

Oh man.

[fugazi]

yuck. more characters

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cebby

If people want to pay, then let them.

Agreed. I think it's a great idea.