Yea, two great teams in the Super Bowl....it's going to be great.  I hope both teams play well and do not sustain and serious injuries.

Congrat m00n, and Necter nice picks yesterday, you were like what 6 points off!!  Enjoy XL, it will be one for the ages!

Audible Nectar wrote:

I"VE GOT TICKETS TO THE SUPER BOWL!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH

Audible Nectar,

I was looking for your post with the list of the events that are scheduled for SuperBowl XL.  Could you repost, PM me or send me to a link.  I thought you said that Snoop Dog was performing?  Let me know....thanks!

honk honk! all aboard The Bus to Detroit :D

What a way to end his career for Bettis, hes always been a humble, hardworking and a genuinely nice guy. It was because of him that I became part of the Steeler Nation. I've always liked his energy and enthusiasm on the field. For a guy his size, hes got an amazing pair of feet. Next season the Steelers will definitely miss the downhill power running of Bussie. It was a fantastic one-two punch with the agile and fast Parker and the powerhouse in Bettis. I hope they win the Superbowl for many reasons -

1. Bettis deserves one, and especially his last game of his illustrious career
2. Cowher has been one of the best coaches around, this will be his crowning point
3. I LOVE THE STEELERS!

I really want to get one of those oldschool Bettis LA Rams jersey, but theyre hard to come by and quite pricey when they pop up on ebay. It won a bid on a commemorative Jerome Bettis gold coin, was hoping to frame a jersy and the coin with a plaque of some sort.

OK - the "official" events listing is here:

http://www.sbxl.org/events/

The "unofficial" list is large. There is no "one stop" info guide for all of this - but here's a couple of suggestions:

Go to http://www.ticketmaster.com and set up Detroit as your home location (you can freely do this no matter where you live - then switch back if you want), then use the events toggle for "Detroit and all surrounding areas" (middle left side of the page)  - leaving all else/other boxes blank - and scroll through the comprehensive listing of ticketed events for the Detroit region for Feb 1-5. You will have to scroll through lots of pages to get to those dates, but you want to do this "the long way" - as a cursory search for "Super Bowl" will miss many of the ticketed events that weekend.

As for Snoop Dogg (Feb 3) and 3 Doors Down (Feb 4) - those are the "Bud Bowl" concerts - only available from Detroit area radio station call in contests and area bar promo parties. I've been searching high and low for these - and trying to win the contests - and even posted about this to Detroit area residents on this forum - and have yet to get them. They are available for $200-300 each on ebay - but considering they were all free giveaways, I am weary of spending that kind of cash. If I find them for a bit less, though - I might bite - especially since I found nearby digs in Detroit for game weekend without going broke...

Kid Rock is also playing at the Joe Louis Arena on Friday and Saturday - last I heard, those are sold out, but you might try Ticketmaster anyway to see if more got released. Otherwise, there's always Ebay/brokers - they got lots of them - and for not too jacked up prices, either, as there are lots of those circulating.

Also, read the Detroit Free Press online at http://www.freep.com. It has been a daily stop for updates since the day I got the ticket invoice. It has been a fund of info, as I did a daily search for "Super Bowl" every morning, and got in on LOTS of cool stuff (Like Kanye West/Nickelback/Goo Goo Dolls at the State Theater - for FREE, Kid Rock, and a KILLER gameday brunch just outside Super Bowl Headquarters, with Channel 7 and ESPN broadcasting at Robert Porcher's "Free Press Restaurant of the Year" called "Seldom Blues" (read the recent expose on this - it will make you go WOW just reading about it). It's the ultimate tailgate I've had this covered like a blanket for two months.

So is the whole city of Pittsburgh planning on coming to Detroit?

Oh, and I forgot to mention the Motown Winter Blast - the epicenter of the Super Bowl week celebration in Detroit. Pay particular attention to the "Sprint Stage" lineup - Smash Mouth, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Clint Black, and Kem (plus others) are all performing - free of charge. Plus three other stages of music, plus food, beer, winter activities - but the bottom line, it will be a RAGE - especially if the weather stays in this moderate pattern the midwest has seen lately.

http://www.motownwinterblast.com/index.html

Sadly that stadium is going to be 98% Steeler fans  and 2% hawk fans.

m00n wrote:

Sadly that stadium is going to be 98% Steeler fans  and 2% hawk fans.

Yep. And it's a dome!

Chris Berman should call it "The Big Mustard Bottle"

It pisses me off.  The superbowl is supposed to be played in a team neutral place. There should be a backup location if you ask me. Rather than playing in Detroit, they should be playing somewhere like Dallas.


This is just about as bad as having the superbowl in San Francisco and Oakland Raiders playing in it. 

m00n wrote:

It pisses me off.  The superbowl is supposed to be played in a team neutral place. There should be a backup location if you ask me. Rather than playing in Detroit, they should be playing somewhere like Dallas. This is just about as bad as having the superbowl in San Francisco and Oakland Raiders playing in it.

Man.....  The game hasn't even started and people are already crying....

Wish I had an oppurtunity to even go see an NFL game, the best shot is the once in awhile buses that go from Toronto to Buffalo for a Bills game.

m00n wrote:

It pisses me off.  The superbowl is supposed to be played in a team neutral place. There should be a backup location if you ask me. Rather than playing in Detroit, they should be playing somewhere like Dallas. This is just about as bad as having the superbowl in San Francisco and Oakland Raiders playing in it.

Waiiiiit a minute.........

Pittsburgh AND Seattle got 17.5% of the ticket allotment for this game (and BOTH teams distributed 75% of that allotment to season ticket holders). The other 30 teams got slightly over 1% - leaving the remaining 35% to league corporate sponsors (and of course, the 500 pairs that go to random fan drawing winners). So it began as an even distribution of tickets.

The rest is up to "the secondary market". The uneven distribution of fans at the game is a result of what happens in that secondary market - ebay, broker exchanges, and other secondary sales - IOW, people who have tix through normal channels selling to someone else.

Basically, the skewing of the crowd is mostly because they "buy their way in". Fans who didn't get them buy them from those who do not want to use the tickets. If the Seattle fans want to see this game, they can see this game - if they want to. We ARE outside the 7 day advance booking window - airfares aren't that high (although the tickets are). And with all of that Microsoft/big corporate cash, they can afford it.

When Pittsburgh played at Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, the place was two-thirds Steeler fans. It was closer for Dallas (yes, Dallas, supposedly America's Team) than it was for those from Pittsburgh, but that was NO excuse for Steeler fans - they came anyway - with or without tickets.

This year, there is a distinct drop in corporate sponsor bookings, both in terms of length of stay, and the number going. I guess the lack of golf courses and sunny piers has them staying home. To Steeler fan, that's good news - more room for him - there seems to be no shortage of Steeler fan buyers. Those unused tickets will end up on ebay or for sale through a broker's office. Who is going to buy those - Steeler fan, or Seahawk fan? Whoever wants to pay more, or do more to make sure they are in the building, is who will get them.

So when Ford Field is two thirds full of Steeler fans, remember: those fans got there because they WANTED to be there. It would not have mattered if this game were played in Alaska - they would still be there, and in the majority. The Super Bowl IS neutral in terms of ticket distribution to start out - what happens afterward is "survival of the fittest" - or richest/most connected - as well as "who wants it more".

Uh huh.....


What m00n heard.

blah blah blah blah blah.


you can cook, slice and dice the numbers anyway you like it. The fact is, due to local, it makes it much more affordable for people in the area. Sure, there  will be some hawk fans, but not nearly as many.

They should have it in the New Orleans Superdome every year...

not like the Saints will ever make it to the superbowl....plus it is a fun town to party in...

and the Dome is within stumbling distance to everything..... french quarter is about 10 blocks ....give or take....

Convention center where they normally have the SuperBowl exhibition crap..is about the same 10 block or so...but in different direction....hehehe

Plus...ya can see real destruction... mother nature style...hehehe

I pick the SeaHawks...cause they are NFC team..and we have to roots for our conferences....

"They should have it in the New Orleans Superdome every year..."


AGREED.

New Orleans was, without a doubt, THE BEST Super Bowl site. The 30,000 hotel rooms within 6 blocks of the CBD make it ideal - stadium, Bourbon Street, and rooms all within walking distance. You can take your quart sized beer between either of them I am most pleased with the NFL and owner's decision to keep the Saints in New Orleans, too - and I cannot wait to see the Super Bowl in NOLA again. I'll go down there for that - whether or not I have tickets. NOLA might make a good football trip, too - go to NOLA to see the Saints - and make sure the tix get sold and the team can stay there.

Don't sweat it, m00n - if the Seahawks are good enough, they'll win in any case. Super Bowl XXXVII (in San Diego) was effectively a Raider home game - didn't help them any! Neither did it help the Los Angeles Rams at Super Bowl XIII, played in the Rose Bowl, when the tinseltown contingent made up 3/4 of that stadium. I think the fact that Seattle is an underdog, when they are the 1 seed playing a 6 seed from the opposing conference, is sufficient locker room material to keep the focus where it should be.

"They should have it in the New Orleans Superdome every year..."


Then m00n would complain that his Seahawks would be playing Miami in that SuperBowl and that they would have home field advantage.


"The fact is, due to local, it makes it much more affordable for people in the area. "


Bottom line is that tickets can be had for the right price.  Pittsburgh fans are loyal to their Steelers.  So loyal, that there is a 20 year waiting list for season tickets.  Pittsburgh fans will remortgage their homes for season tickets, and to pay the $2200 price per ticket to see their Steelers in the Super Bowl is a no-brainer.  To some, yes, it is a bit excessive, but to real die hard fans it is well worth it.  It is not because people in Pittsburgh have more money or they save money on the cost of a flight, it is because of their strong devotion to the Steelers. 

Last time I checked Seattle was a larger metropolitian city, that has much bigger business, and generated more revenue than Pittsburgh will ever see.  You mean to tell me that people in Seattle don't have the money to go, yet people in a blue-colar town of Pittsbugh do?  What the Seattle fan base should do, is quit spending all their money drinking Starbucks coffee and put that money towards Super Bowl coffee.

Keep in mind how much that home field advantage helped the Steelers.  How easily people forget that they beat the number 1, 2, and 3 teams in the AFC all on the road, all of which were higher favorites to win the Super Bowl over Seahawks.  Who did Seattle beat, 1st round bye, and then the number 6 seed and number 5 seed.