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Why do Super Bowl tickets cost so much? Inside the world of NFL pricing, luxury packages, and ticket brokers with bags of cash

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On Lo a Super Bowl its tickets as part of packages that can run t 49ers f thousands o January rs.

The NFL started to crack down on these sales as Super Bowl ld on ticket sa more than 100 rokers said they often acquire tickets from people who've received them at face value and elected to sell them for profit.

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