Playing in the Super Bowl is getting expensive.
The Broncos received their ticket allotments Thursday. Each player received two complimentary tickets, plus 13 tickets they could buy at $800, $1,200 or $1,500 apiece.
Rookies such as C.J. Anderson and Kayvon Webster received two $800 complimentary tickets to the Feb. 2 game for upper-deck seats at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. An eight-year pro such as Jeremy Mincey received two $1,200 midlevel comp tickets.
Veterans such as Peyton Manning and Champ Bailey received two $1,500 lower-level comp tickets.
That’s face value, folks.
Each player on the Super Bowl-winning team will receive $92,000. The losing team’s players get $46,000 apiece.
Just win, baby.
As for the 13 tickets each Denver player can buy, many decided to upgrade. Mincey, for example, paid $1,500 apiece for 13 lower-level tickets. That’s a bill of $19,500. Ouch.
“I’ve got a Mincey tribe coming,” Mincey said. “I mean, shoot, you only get to play in the Super Bowl once. I wouldn’t have my family miss it.”
Undrafted rookies such as Anderson couldn’t afford to buy their full allotment of 13 tickets.
“Of course not,” he said. “Not my check. I need my check. I don’t know about them. I need mine.”
Still, he paid for eight tickets at $1,200 apiece. On the secondary market, the tickets can fetch three times the face-value price.
“Can’t sell them,” Anderson said. “You can get fined, that’s what I heard. I can’t get fined, either.”
