The holy grail of Super Bowl tickets are on the auction block. And they are expected to fetch quite the price.
A pair of unused tickets to Super Bowl I are being sold via Heritage Auctions. As of this writing, they are at $22,000 and expectations are the price will reach $30,000. The face value of each ticket? Just $12.
The backstory is fascinating.
Working for Oregon congressman Al Ullman and living in Alexandria, VA, at the time, Homer Hall wrote “1stSuper Bowl tickets” on the front of the envelope in which they were mailed and tucked them away. Eventually, they became obscured in the usual swell of possessions most of us accumulate during a lifetime.
Recently, though, Hall’s family uncovered the unused full tickets to what we now know as “Super Bowl I” and consigned them to Heritage Auctions where they’re expected to sell for over $30,000 this weekend.
“These tickets are comparable to buried treasure,” a consignment director with Heritage, Chris Nerat, said.
Hall’s daughter suspects her father’s job was the reason he received the tickets.
Oh, the Packers defeated the Chiefs in the game played at the LA Coliseum on Jan. 15, 1967.
