N.J. Man sues NFL for withholding most Super Bowl tickets from general public

[BigBucs]

N.J. football fan sues NFL for withholding most Super Bowl tickets from general public

A New Jersey football fan is suing the National Football League for violating state law by making only a small number of tickets to next month’s Super Bowl available for purchase by the general public.

Josh Finkelman of New Brunswick has filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging the NFL and its member teams violated the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act by splitting the estimated 80,000 tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII between the league, its 32 teams and the two host teams.

Only 1 percent of the tickets are made available to the general public through a national lottery, according to the claim. The league’s policy forces fans to the secondary market, where they pay substantially more than face value.

The lawsuit seeks “treble damages and attorney’s fees… and any other damages deemed just and proper by the court.”

The lawsuit claims the league distributes its share to broadcast networks, media sponsors and “other league insiders” and that the individual teams offer their allotment of tickets to re-sellers rather than the general public.

“The resellers are promised access to these tickets from the franchise, via ticket contracts entered into years in advance, that provide for specific quantities of Super Bowl tickets before the tickets are even printed,” according to the lawsuit.

According to the complaint, Finkelman spent $4,000 for two tickets to the game, to be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Feb. 2. The prices “was far in excess of the face value of the tickets,” the lawsuit claims.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy had no immediate comment on the lawsuit. Attorney Bruce Nagel of Nagel Rice in Roseland did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

http://www.nj.com/super-bowl/index....t_super_bowl_tickets_from_general_public.html

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

The man has a good case, methinks...unfortunately, he don't have the horses to win this one.

With that said...why does he want to go to the Super Bowl? I went to Super Bowl XLI (Colts-Bears) and it was incredibly boring. I guess it is a "bucket list" thing, but I put it up there with going to Times Square on New Years Eve...sounds thuper awesome, but get there and you realize "wtf am I doing here?"

The Super Bowl is best watched at home, on a Big Screen TV with all the fiiiiiiiiiiiiixuns you can get your hands on and beer with friends.

 

[ram29jackson]

The man has a good case, methinks...unfortunately, he don't have the horses to win this one.

With that said...why does he want to go to the Super Bowl? I went to Super Bowl XLI (Colts-Bears) and it was incredibly boring. I guess it is a "bucket list" thing, but I put it up there with going to Times Square on New Years Eve...sounds thuper awesome, but get there and you realize "wtf am I doing here?"

The Super Bowl is best watched at home, on a Big Screen TV with all the fiiiiiiiiiiiiixuns you can get your hands on and beer with friends.

I can see why...you avoid the common dumb fan and a stabbing story or something. They want it to be a pristine unblemished event made for tv. but I would like to go at some point....

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Eh, common dumb fans make a game fun and lively.

Football games surrounded by suits and their families...ugh. I go to the Orange Bowl Game every year...worst fan experience of the year, easily. Nothing but suits and their families, all quiet, even during big plays. Gross.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

It's the way the industry works. If NFL or anyone for that matter cared about forcing fans to the secondary market they could stop it instantaneously.
This is why Madden over 20 years ago said that championship game weekend is the best Sunday of football all year. The superbowls about hype and corporations. Championship weekend is still pure and about the games.
Either way it's a total scam. Lol at teams that didn't make the SB getting tickets let alone 50k(?) seat venue availing only a thousand or so to a public on sale. Lulz. Corporate fans are the worst.

 

[killgod]

It's the way the industry works. If NFL or anyone for that matter cared about forcing fans to the secondary market they could stop it instantaneously.
This is why Madden over 20 years ago said that championship game weekend is the best Sunday of football all year. The superbowls about hype and corporations. Championship weekend is still pure and about the games.
Either way it's a total scam. Lol at teams that didn't make the SB getting tickets let alone 50k(?) seat venue availing only a thousand or so to a public on sale. Lulz. Corporate fans are the worst.

Yeah, fuck Matt and his dad.

 

[MrBill]

The man has a good case, methinks...unfortunately, he don't have the horses to win this one.

With that said...why does he want to go to the Super Bowl? I went to Super Bowl XLI (Colts-Bears) and it was incredibly boring. I guess it is a "bucket list" thing, but I put it up there with going to Times Square on New Years Eve...sounds thuper awesome, but get there and you realize "wtf am I doing here?"

The Super Bowl is best watched at home, on a Big Screen TV with all the fiiiiiiiiiiiiixuns you can get your hands on and beer with friends.

Eh, common dumb fans make a game fun and lively.

Football games surrounded by suits and their families...ugh. I go to the Orange Bowl Game every year...worst fan experience of the year, easily. Nothing but suits and their families, all quiet, even during big plays. Gross.

Humble brag?

 

[buckeye]

Its garbage really. A friend of mine is a huge Steelers fan and has been to both recent Super Bowls. He said it was the weirdest thing he has ever seen. Almost no real football fans, high rollers everywhere and more than half aren't even watching the game. They are having drinks and chatting like a social gathering for oil executives.

 

[killgod]

Its garbage really. A friend of mine is a huge Steelers fan and has been to both recent Super Bowls. He said it was the weirdest thing he has ever seen. Almost no real football fans, high rollers everywhere and more than half aren't even watching the game. They are having drinks and chatting like a social gathering for oil executives.

So basically the Super Bowl is like......all Toronto Maple Leaf home games?

 

[MrBill]

Its garbage really. A friend of mine is a huge Steelers fan and has been to both recent Super Bowls. He said it was the weirdest thing he has ever seen. Almost no real football fans, high rollers everywhere and more than half aren't even watching the game. They are having drinks and chatting like a social gathering for oil executives.

It's always struck me as odd that the biggest game of the year is turned into a spectacle for corporations to send people to the game that aren't even really sure what they are watching. The league should only keep a quarter or third of the tickets and turn the rest over to be split evenly by the participating teams. They could find a way to make sure their longest holding season ticket owners got first dibs. Then the game would have actual fans there in house.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

The man has a good case, methinks...unfortunately, he don't have the horses to win this one.

With that said...why does he want to go to the Super Bowl? I went to Super Bowl XLI (Colts-Bears) and it was incredibly boring. I guess it is a "bucket list" thing, but I put it up there with going to Times Square on New Years Eve...sounds thuper awesome, but get there and you realize "wtf am I doing here?"

The Super Bowl is best watched at home, on a Big Screen TV with all the fiiiiiiiiiiiiixuns you can get your hands on and beer with friends.

I'm not all about the bucket list things. Not worth my time to sit in Times Square all day when I can do something at home, or go to a friends house, or go out, and see the exact same thing they do on TV, without having to sit there and do nothing all day in the cold. Super Bowl, it's best served at home with the food and beer you want, the people you want, and not have to sit through a slow game with a lot of commercial breaks (and you can't even watch the commercials.)

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

This whole "watch SB at home" reminds me of the painful explanation and confused face EVERY SINGLE GIRL EVER has made whos asked me "why dont you go to football games" when I tell them "its better on TV".
mg:

 

[Hasselbeck]

I think going to a conference championship game would far exceed the game experience of going to the Super Bowl.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Humble brag?

:kanye:

 

[cf24]

I think going to a conference championship game would far exceed the game experience of going to the Super Bowl.

When the Cards rode Kurt's janky arm into the playoffs and to the Super Bowl, my dad and I went to all three playoff games. That NFC Championship game against the Eagles was something I will never forget. The dome was insane. I've never seen so many people cry because their team won.

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[MrBill]

I think going to a conference championship game would far exceed the game experience of going to the Super Bowl.

Since I got to go to the NFC Championship Game in 2010, I will agree with that line of thought. There was little if any corporate schmoozing going on in the Superdome. It was die hard Saints fans with a few Vikings fans all pulling for their team to win and get a berth to to the Super Bowl.

 

[seaplus]

There was little if any corporate schmoozing going on in the Superdome. It was die hard Saints fans with a few Vikings fans all pulling for their team to win and get a berth to to the Super Bowl.

BS you were there

 

[Rayman]

Yet another reason why I hope it's as frigid that Sunday as it was this past week.

 

[Tailback U]

I think going to a conference championship game would far exceed the game experience of going to the Super Bowl.

I went to the 2002 AFC Championship game when the Raiders beat the Titans to go to the Super Bowl and it was one of the most memorable experiences I've ever had as a fan because it was a home game for the Raiders and they won so everyone was in a good mood and not stabbing each other.

 

[dave]

I went to the 2002 AFC Championship game when the Raiders beat the Titans to go to the Super Bowl and it was one of the most memorable experiences I've ever had as a fan because it was a home game for the Raiders and they won so everyone was in a good mood and not stabbing each other.

I went to the 2002 Eagles-Bucs game. As an Eagles' fan, I would have jumped off a tall building after that game, but I would just have become a paraplegic and not died.