NFL Fines 100+ Players, Team Staff for Reselling Super Bowl LIX Tickets Above Face Value

The National Football League confirmed Friday that more than 100 players and approximately two dozen team employees are facing fines for reselling Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, violating league policy.

Chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that players involved will be fined one-and-a-half times the face value of each ticket they sold. Team employees caught in the violation will face fines double the ticket’s face value.

The disciplinary action comes after an investigation uncovered “widespread violations” involving players and staff members who sold their Super Bowl tickets to a small group of “bundlers,” who then resold the tickets at inflated prices.

In a memo to team executives, presidents, and lawyers, NFL chief compliance officer Sabria Perel wrote, “Upon completion of the investigation, non-player personnel determined to have participated in the scheme in violation of the Policy will be assessed substantial financial penalties and will lose the privilege to purchase NFL tickets. Those that worked to ‘bundle’ the tickets, or otherwise had a greater role, will face increased penalties.”

According to the league’s collective bargaining agreement, players and team employees are prohibited from selling tickets above face value. Players are allowed to purchase two Super Bowl tickets at face value each year, but the league stresses that those tickets must not be resold for profit.

The infractions stem from Super Bowl LIX, where the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in New Orleans. The next Super Bowl is scheduled for February 8 in Santa Clara, California.

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