Buy or sell? That’s the question my brother and sister-in-law faced.
John and Brenda have been loyal Seahawk season ticket holders for 23 years. Sunday’s Super Bowl game in Santa Clara, California was the fourth in franchise history. But until this year, going to this annual, mega-sporting event was never an option. Until this year.
After the Seahawks defeated the LA Rams in the NFC Championship game, John and Brenda learned they had won for the first time a “lottery” for season-ticket holders. That meant they could purchase Super Bowl tickets at reasonable, season-ticket prices. “Reasonable,” in this case, was $1,000 per ticket. That’s a bargain compared to what the general public paid, where the cheapest ticket was $6,000.
John told me the other day they probably could have sold their tickets for $7,000 apiece. But what price do you place on making a memory? John and Brenda decided to make it a road trip. They drove, spending time in Oregon and northern California on the way to Santa Clara and back.
“It was the experience of a lifetime,” he told me as they passed Centralia on their way home, five days after the game.
Sure, there were blips along the way. John said he only packed a light coat for the game. While the temperature hovered around 70 degrees at the start of the game, he discovered it gets cold in the Bay Area in February at night. It took them more than two hours after the game to get from the stadium to their hotel, only three miles away. And that hotel cost $500 per night.
Expensive? Yes. The memories? Priceless.
John and Brenda picked a good one. The Seahawks destroyed the New England Patriots, 29-13, for their second Super Bowl title.
“A night we’ll never forget,” John said after the game.
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