Paging Denver Broncos fans.
Seattle Seahawks supporters are expected to outnumber Broncos fans by a clear margin at Super Bowl XLVIII, according to reports from ticket-reselling giant StubHub and two ticket-search firms.
Data from the three companies also show that prices for Sunday’s game in East Rutherford, N.J., have dropped significantly over the past week.
StubHub said Monday that 18 percent of its Super Bowl ticket sales have come from the state of Washington, followed by New York with 14 percent. Colorado residents have snatched up 12 percent of tickets sold, StubHub said.
That information jibes with a report from SeatGeek, which aggregates ticket listings from a wide array of reseller sites. The company said 18 percent of all Super Bowl ticket shoppers are originating from Washington versus 8 percent from Colorado.
“If we had to make any bets about the composition of the crowd on Super Bowl Sunday, we’d speculate that Seahawks fans will outnumber Broncos fans in the building by a fair margin,” SeatGeek spokesman Will Flaherty said in an e-mail.
The traffic gap on TiqIQ’s ticket-search engine isn’t as big, though Washington residents still lead with 9 percent compared with 7 percent for Colorado.
TiqIQ said Monday that the average price for ticket listings is $3,007.77, down 25 percent from just more than a week ago. The current “get in price” — the cheapest available ticket — is $1,395, down 37 percent from $2,233.
Tickets have sold for an average of $3,102 on StubHub, which had more than 4,800 listings Monday.
“Prices have gone down, though this isn’t unusual as we generally see prices go down as we get closer to an event as sellers want to unload their tickets,” said StubHub spokesman Cameron Papp.
SeatGeek said the average price paid for a ticket purchased this past weekend was $2,056.
Flaherty said pricing trends indicate that this year’s Super Bowl will be the least expensive since the 2002 game, which was just months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
On Monday, there were 18,000 tickets posted online, more than double the number of tickets available in the wake of the conference championship games.
“We’re seeing a glut of supply in the market,” he said. “Strong supply and uncertainty about the weather forecast has helped to keep prospective buyers on the sideline for now — driving prices downward at a record rate.”
SeatGeek data show that prices on club seats, which feature access to a heated interior concourse, have held steady with an average of around $6,000 to $7,000.
Andy Vuong : 303-954-1209, avuong@denverpost.com or twitter.com/andyvuong
