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http://www.independent.ie/sport/lef...super-bowl-and-sit-in-50k-seats-30957675.htmlTwo Irish fans of American Football showed what an ounce of pluck can achieve when they snuck into the Super Bowl and sat in seats worth $25,000 each.
Paul McEvoy, from Cahir in Tipperary, and Richard Whelan, from Dublin, couldn't afford tickets from touts around the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona so simply walked straight through the front door.
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gcomeau
(5,764 posts)...I'd think they were jackasses for sneaking into any event without paying.
But frankly, with the obscenely gouging prices they charge for tickets to that thing, I consider it justified. So good for them.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Several years ago I turned down the opportunity for a New Orleans Super Bowl trip. I been there before for Sugar Bowl games, but I didn't want to pay $300.00 for the extra ticket they had. A few beers at the Super Bowl in today's world probably cost more than that.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Probably not worth that kinda cash, though.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)That was actually a few years before I started sneaking in, but my dad took me to games then.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)all the time while I was growing up. It was consider a rite of passage among most young people and so easy because the never locked the back doors.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Good for them.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)hunter
(38,322 posts)... with nuclear bombs surgically implanted in their guts.
That said, I've found myself inside highly restricted venues, sometimes by accident when I was simply looking for a toilet.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)I guess I'll have to buy you a porta-potty!
former9thward
(32,064 posts)Where were they? The game was a sellout.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)herding cats
(19,566 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I sneak into my buddies club about once a month in the summer and have lunch and beers on his tab. To be fair he does the same to me. But the joke is on him, they have better beer.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Good show. So much for security theater.
Baitball Blogger
(46,754 posts)Just kidding. I think.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)brooklynite
(94,686 posts)I worked on last year's Super Bowl. It is treated like a security event equivalent to a Party convention. There is massive security and frequent ticket checks (at last year's event, you couldn't get into the parking lot without proof of tickets and a pre-paid parking pass). Either there was a massive security breach, or the story's not be told as it happened.