How do you tell if a Super Bowl ticket is real or not?

Answer 1

There are always people selling fake Super Bowl tickets. I have been to three Super Bowls and am familiar with some, but not all of the security elementsa the NFL uses when printing the the tickets. Some, but not all, of the tickets have the following security features:

• High Quality Card Stock - Super Bowl Tickets are "beefy". If the stock its printed on feels lightweight, its probably not real.
• Hologram - movement of the ticket causes the image to shift between two images, most usually the Lombardi trophy and the Super Bowl Logo
• Thermographic Ink - Certain portions of the Ink on the ticket will disappear when body heat is applied.
• Glow in the Dark Ink - Certain portions of the ticket will glow in the absence of light
• The ticket should have a Bar Code on the TOP and BOTTOM of the ticket

Other things to check for:

• The Price - Super Bowl tickets are expensive. I believe this year ticket prices are between $800 and $1,000 per seat. If you are buying a ticket for $100 its probably fake
• Check seat locations - make sure the section is actually in the stadium.
• Check seat numbers - make sure that all the seat numbers are not all the same - that's a dead give away that a ticket is fake.
• Check for correct spelling on the ticket - the teams, the venue, the city, etc