Super bowl ticket info

The fax machine and email inbox have been humming with Super Bowl travel offers and I wanted to share some fast facts with you. Tickets for the 1st Super Bowl played in January 1967 cost $12.00 and you could have walked up and purchased one on the day of the game. Next weeks game is a total sellout and I’ve seen ticket available on the resell market starting at about $2000.00 a seat. Talk about inflation!

If you are interested in attending next year’s game to be played in the suburbs of Phoenix AZ you need to submit an entry into a ticket raffle. Entries for the random drawing are accepted between Feb. 1 and June 1 of the year preceding the game in question. All entries must include name, address, phone number and email address, and must be sent via certified or registered mail. You will be notified by mail in October or November if you are eligible to purchase Super Bowl XLI tickets. Requests for tickets to Super Bowl XLII, to be played Feb. 3, 2008 in Glendale, Ariz., will be accepted beginning Feb. 1, 2007. Requests should be sent to:
Super Bowl Random Drawing
P.O. Box 49140
Strongsville, OH 44149-0140
Please note: Only one request per address is accepted. Duplicate requests will be ineligible.

The desert is wonderful that time of year so the Travel Professor is booking his hotel, rental car and flights soon and will also be submitting a ticket lottery entry. If I don’t get the tickets at least I can enjoy the game festivities in the Valley of the Sun, play some golf and enjoy the fine Mexican restaurants that are everywhere.