People different from you: Super Bowl extravagance

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/business/27bug.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

PHOENIX — It may be too late now, but if you moved quickly the other day you could have booked a three-night stay over Super Bowl weekend at the Ramada Limited Airport North in Phoenix for a cool $2,382.78.

You read that right. A Ramada wants $2,382.78 for three nights during the Super Bowl.

The swankier hotels and resorts in the Phoenix area, of course, have been booked for months, or even years, for next Sunday’s game. But the astonishing room rates that even roadside properties are demanding say something about the three-day spectacle the Super Bowl has become. Whatever it is to most of the 70,000 or so fans who will be there, it’s corporate America’s Mardi Gras, no expense spared, to the businesses that cater to them.

Consider the private jets. The Arizona skies will be full of them next weekend, as corporations and well-heeled individuals head to Phoenix with clients or colleagues in tow.

As of Friday, about 400 private jets had already made arrangements to fly in. Private-jet schedulers say that this is the most ever, and that an epic traffic jam could ensue in the skies.

otherwise some of his base might have had to fly commercial.

they show that game for free on TV! And at the game you miss all the commercials which after the first quarter are the only reason to watch (a sad but true statement).

sadly, the all too common, both.

I always get a kick out of checking out these prices:

http://www.stubhub.com/super-bowl-tickets/?ticket_id=115072206



Actually these are lower prices than I saw last year.

People getting WAY TOO MUCH MONEY for playing with their balls to entertain people with way too much money. In the old days, when my working class father could afford to "take me out to the ball game", in a time when peanuts and Cracker Jacks didn't cost a weeks wages, there was something to supporting your team. Unfortunately, the last time that was the case, and the last time I went to a ball game, Jim Davenport and Willie Mays were playing and the 9ers were still playing at Kezar stadium.