Super Bowl Tickets

History of the Super Bowl

To date, there have been 48 Super Bowls in 24 different stadiums, and from the very first one which featured the Green Bay Packers triumphing over the Kansas City Chiefs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1967 to 2014’s blowout victory by the Seattle Seahawks over the Denver Broncos in East Rutherford, New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, each one has been special. In fact, only four NFL teams have not made the big game. They are: the Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Detroit Lions. Someday, Lions fans, someday.

For many of us, it seems as if the Super Bowl has always existed, but prior to the merger of the National Football League and the American Football League, which was finalized in 1970, there was no such thing. The late Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, coined the term “Super Bowl” while the two leagues were determining how a champion would be crowned as they were finalizing the merger details. It did not, however, become the official moniker of the game until after what we now consider to be Super Bowl V.

In those first few years, many NFL fans did not take teams from the old AFL very seriously after two consecutive blowouts by the Packers, but that all changed after a young gun slinger from the New York Jets named Joe Namath dramatically predicted that his team would take down the vaunted Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. As all football fans over 45 know, he was right. After that, the AFC has held their own, except for a 13 year drought from 1985 to 1997 where the NFC dominated play.

Attending a Super Bowl

SuperBowl tickets are hard to come by, though, with only 500 to 1000 being released to the public for each game and there are steps involved if you wish to be one of the lucky few that actually get to purchase a ticket from the NFL. Interested fans need to send a certified letter stating your intention to buy tickets to the league office between February 1 and June 1 to get the opportunity to attend the following year’s game.

Ultimately, for most fans who want to buy Super Bowl tickets (and in most NFL cities, football tickets in general), the best route to ensure getting to attend is through a reputable ticket agency which will guarantee that tickets purchased are legitimate.