Super Bowl XLIII is a professional football championship game conducted by the National Football League. Participants include the champions of the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League. The winning team wins the Vince Lombardi Trophy.Super Bowl XLIII will be the fourth time Tampa Bay has hosted a Super Bowl. Tampa Bay previously hosted Super Bowl XVIII in 1984, Super Bowl XXV in 1991, and Super Bowl XXXV in 2001.Super Bowl XLIII will be held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.SuperBowl 2009 Date & Start Time: Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 6 p.m.
One week out and the Super Bowl is sold-out.Of course, folks can still get tickets online and, as it turns out, even hotel rooms While the big hotels, like Marriotts and Hyatts, are booked, it is the smaller, more independent hotels having a hard time booking up.
On South Dale Mabry Highway, the Tahitian Inn still has almost a dozen rooms available and the same goes for the Westshore Hotel on Westshore Boulevard. Both are only minutes from Raymond James Stadium."It's still really a moving target from the hotel side, they are waiting on those people who haven't decided if they're going to come here yet, " said Steve Hayes of Tampa Bay and Company.
Hayes says area hotels saw a spike in sales the day after the teams were decided, then sales slowed a smidge for a couple of reasons. "One, being the teams involved, and two being the economy."
Even the beautiful Belleview Biltmore is not booked up yet. Although, the club just started selling Super Bowl packages on Thursday. "I've only released them this morning and I've already sold forty and I only have to sell two-hundred-twenty-six," said hotel director Martin Smith.
The Biltmore expects to be booked solid by the weekend.
Despite a slight dip in Super Bowl sales, Hayes says the big game will still be super for our economy.
"Could it have been better? Yes, but given today and where we're at, we're so grateful we've got this event coming to our community."
Superbowl 2009 Tickets:
The demand for tickets to Super Bowl XLIII greatly exceeds the NFL's ability to accommodate the majority of fans interested in attending the game. The vast majority of Super Bowl tickets approximately 75% are distributed to the 32 NFL teams. The participating teams each receive 17.5% of the tickets, the non-participating teams receive 1.2% and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as the host team, will receive 5%. The remaining 25.2% are controlled by the NFL and are distributed primarily to NFL affiliated companies, the broadcast network, corporate sponsors, media, VIP's charities, fans and the Host Committee.The NFL distributes approximately 1% of the tickets to fans through an annual Super Bowl random drawing. The drawing is not considered a lottery. This is the NFL's only method of distributing tickets to the general public. The NFL does not sell tickets to travel or ticket agents.
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Why does the NFL give 75% of the tickets to the 32NFL teams went there are so many fans that are willing to pay $2000 for just one ticket.I think that the NFL should only give tickets to the team that made it to the playoffs and to sell the rest.
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