From $12 to $2,500: How Super Bowl tickets became so expensive

A ticket to the first Super Bowl cost spectators as little as $6 in 1967. This year, you may end up paying more than $5,000 if you're buying from a secondary website.

February 3, 2018 at 2:15PM
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Anna Boone

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Anna Boone became a full-time digital designer at the Minnesota Star Tribune following her internship there in the summer of 2017. Before moving to Minneapolis, she interned at the Denver Post and Verge Magazine in London. 

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