I was in Houston when they had the Super Bowl there in 2004. The festivities downtown that weekend were wicked fun, but I didn’t actually get to go to the game. Tickets were a couple of grand and were pretty hard to get.
Anyway, has anyone here ever actually been to the game? If so, how did you get your tickets, and was the experience worth it?
I was at Super Bowl XXIII. San Francisco (with Joe Montana) against Cincinnati in Miami. It was a business thing. I was given the tickets.
The Super Bowl was a big deal then but not the over-the-top production that it is today.
XXIII may have been the first of the great finishes. Up to then the SB was usually a pretty boring game. There have been a number of great finishes since then but that set the standard. SF was behind late, got the ball and Montana drove them the length of the field for the win.
A few observations:
The face value of my ticket (in the upper deck) was $75. That’s incredibly cheap by today’s standards.
When SF started their final drive there were people that were getting up and leaving. I never could figure that out. It’s the friggin’ SB and you’re not staying to the end? What’s the point?
The fireworks show after the game was awesome.
The Cincinnati fans were great. Even with the loss they acted like they were having a good time.
It was a fun time. I’m glad I went.
A friend of mine went to the one in Atlanta with Buffalo getting beaten by Dallas in 1994. He is a huge Buffalo fan, so he booked a hotel and hoped that his brother would come through with tickets, as promised. The brother’s deal fell through, so he answered an ad in the paper. A guy who had some minor job with the Falcons (I think) had tickets to sell and wanted about $2400 cash for the two of them. My friend went to the bank, got the cash, met the guy at a restaurant and purchased the tickets. He said it was worth it.
A co-worker is at the Super Bowl this weekend. She is marrying one of the NY Giants in a couple of weeks.
Superbowl 12, in New Orleans. I got the tickets because some company gave the company I worked for a box, and I got a pair of seats. My BF of the time had a blast in the stadium, I had a blast wandering around in the French Quarter.
I have basically no interest in watching sports of any sort, but I love good food and interesting places. BF of the time liked sports, so it worked out wonderfully. We sold my ticket to one of the guys in the local plant of my company and he had a blast watching the game and I had the money to pay for my day of food and sightseeing. Win-win situation.