NFL Cashes In On Selling Tickets To Super Bowl 58 Event To Kick Off Week In Las Vegas
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Story by Alan Snel Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell
It’s the Super Bowl media day, now known as the NFL-branded “Opening Night,” a clever ploy by the revenue juggernaut to make money from a Super Bowl event that used to be known by the off-beat questions posed by pseudo celebrities.
These days, NFL fans being NFL fans, $30 is not too much to enter Allegiant Stadium and listen to the players and luminaries from the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers offer observations like “Kansas City is a nice place but there are not as many things to do there as Las Vegas.”
The NFL says the attendance inside the Raiders stadium was 23,823. If that number is true, the NFL generated $714,960 for inviting fans to soak up some Super Bowl ambiance.
Gone are the days when zany goofballs used to ask funny questions to the Super Bowl players.
There were lots of people, though, in the stadium.
Raiders owner Mark Davis was there on the field, and even the Carrot Top fella was on the field mingling with hundreds of media. And naturally, it’s not a Super Bowl media day without Guillermo Rodriguez, Jimmy Kimmel’s trusty sidekick, in the house with a mic.
The next time the 49ers and Chiefs see each other inside this stadium, it will be Sunday at Super Bowl 58.
The 49ers are a slight favorite.
