What will NFL fans give up for Super Bowl tickets? Sex, booze and kidneys, survey says
What are NFL fans willing to give up for tickets to see their team play in the Super Bowl?
Sex, alcohol, kidneys — and even their significant others — according to a Ticketmaster survey.
Tickets prices for the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco are already shaping up to be the most expensive ever, CNN reported.
The average ticket price Tuesday night on Ticketmaster was $9,175, the company said. That’s nearly 50 percent higher than a year ago.
So, who knows? Now, maybe those two fan bases would be willing to give up even more, especially those in Kansas City. It’s been 50 years since the Chiefs played in the big game.
Ticketmaster called 3,200 NFL fans in late December for its study, according to a report provided to McClatchy News. They interviewed 100 from each team, split by gender.
The company asked fans what they’d exchange to see their team play live in the Super Bowl. Here’s what Ticketmaster found:
- 35 percent percent are willing to give up drinking for an entire year.
- 28 percent will forgo their favorite food for one year — with Chiefs fans polling the highest at 36 percent.
- 21 percent would give up all their vacation time.
- 16 percent of fans say they’d get inked with an “embarrassing” tattoo.
- 14 percent won’t have sex for a year. Women were 17 percent more likely to give it up, the only item on the list where they “over-indexed” men, Ticketmaster said.
- 12 percent will give up all their hair.
- 7 percent would donate a kidney.
- 7 percent also would give up their significant other.
“Surveys like these really speak to the mindset of the NFL fan – and drilling down to the team level provides even more insights into their preferences,” Clay Luter, executive vice president for Ticketmaster North America told Reuters.
Super Bowl LIV is Feb. 2 in Miami.