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“You make the sacrifice to buy season tickets (with) extra shifts, extra hours at work…(But) with Super Bowl tickets, you’re talking about five, six, seven times season ticket prices. Ramses is discouraged, he explained, that loyal, middle-income fans like him can’t afford to go to the Super Bowl. He said he could barely afford his single $1,200 season ticket, let alone a Super Bowl ticket on the open market, inflated over face value. In real life, the man behind the mask is a health care worker and father of twins. When he lifted his head, he had tears in his eyes. Ramses read the email out loud from his smart phone: “Dear Ramses…we regret to inform you that you were not randomly selected for the opportunity to purchase Super Bowl tickets at face value.” He found out his fate in an email sent to him from the Rams’ front office. Like all season ticket holders, he was included in a lottery for the chance to buy tickets for the big game at face value. “If I can somehow find a way to help out from home, why not? I’ll always make the effort.”īut this may be the way Ramses will have to watch the Super Bowl. “I do this for every home game,” he said. Behind him is a large, scenic backdrop painted with a large stadium. He still dresses in his costume but sits in a large recliner in front of a flat-screen TV. Roughly 5% are sold directly to the public at face valueĭuring the regular season, when the Rams are playing at SoFi Stadium, he cheers for the home team and pumps up the crowd from his seat in the stands.īut when the Rams are on the road, Ramses pulls for his favorite team from a makeshift stadium in his Whittier home.Approximately 25% are reserved for NFL sponsors.Of all tickets, 35% are allocated to all NFL teams and their players and coaches.The NFL has almost doubled face-value ticket prices from two years ago.