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Related: About this forumBroncos punter forced to buy $1,800 Super Bowl ticket for his 1-week-old daughter
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http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/2/3/10904816/britton-colquitt-super-bowl-broncos-ticket-1-year-old-1800-dollars
Britton Colquitt got a rude surprise leading up to the Super Bowl: He'll have to buy a ticket for his 1-week-old daughter. The Broncos punter found out this week that he was going to have to spend $1,800 to buy a seat for his baby -- a baby that will never use a seat. He explained the situation to the Denver Post.
"There's no age limit to tickets. It's $1800 for our week-old daughter we just had. It's kind of crazy,"
Not having an age bracket for Super Bowl seats is an idea so stupid only the NFL could think it up. Airplanes worked this out a long time ago: If a baby can sit in a parent's lap, then they don't pay. This is just common sense. Again, this is the NFL -- where common sense flies out the window.
Colquitt is paying the money.
"You won't remember, but I'm paying for it. It's not about the money because with the tickets you end up kind of forfeiting your Super Bowl check. It's about the medal I guess and the memories and putting your name in history forever."
Super Bowl seats are at a premium. It's understandable that they need to be sold, but a 1-week-old baby is so far beyond the pale it's ridiculous. Consider this item 1,635,214 in "Be better, NFL."
"There's no age limit to tickets. It's $1800 for our week-old daughter we just had. It's kind of crazy,"
Not having an age bracket for Super Bowl seats is an idea so stupid only the NFL could think it up. Airplanes worked this out a long time ago: If a baby can sit in a parent's lap, then they don't pay. This is just common sense. Again, this is the NFL -- where common sense flies out the window.
Colquitt is paying the money.
"You won't remember, but I'm paying for it. It's not about the money because with the tickets you end up kind of forfeiting your Super Bowl check. It's about the medal I guess and the memories and putting your name in history forever."
Super Bowl seats are at a premium. It's understandable that they need to be sold, but a 1-week-old baby is so far beyond the pale it's ridiculous. Consider this item 1,635,214 in "Be better, NFL."
And the baby won't even remember having seen her daddy punt ten or twelve times.
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Broncos punter forced to buy $1,800 Super Bowl ticket for his 1-week-old daughter (Original Post)
KamaAina
Feb 2016
OP
According to Elway Supremo, the punter will not be doing any punting, so there will not
madinmaryland
Feb 2016
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madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)1. According to Elway Supremo, the punter will not be doing any punting, so there will not
even be any pictures.
Auggie
(31,184 posts)2. I believe a babysitter is cheaper
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)3. No kidding.
Why would you want to bring a 1-week-old baby to the Super Bowl?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)4. Seems irresponsible to subject those week-old eardrums to the noise levels.
I know it'll be cool and all to tell her that she was there but c'mon.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)5. If the mother or someone takes the baby for only a minute or so so they
can say she was there, fine. Otherwise, this is irresponsible.