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Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill deserves a lot of credit for opening the stadium and practice facilities for the Rams, who were displaced by the wildfires. But his benevolence does not act as a license to sprinkle in another “B” word.
Bidwill spoke with NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport about the decision to hand the building over to the Vikings and Rams for Monday night’s finale of the no-longer-Super Wild Card round. Summarizing the conversation during an appearance on NFL Network’s GameDay Morning, Rapoport said Bidwill called the demand for tickets “like Taylor Swift.”
Mind. It’s not.
We found seats on StubHub for as little as $110. And on SeatGeek, the official legal partner for scalping from the cardinals, two tickets cost $176 each.
During Taylor Swift’s recently concluded “Eras” tour, one person earned $20,000 by reselling four tickets for the show.
In an article accompanying Rapoport’s on-air report, it is clear that Bidwill was referring not to price but to speed of sales.
“It was pretty clear early in the first 12 minutes,” Bidwill said. “It was like a sell-out Taylor Swift-type concert pace that, it was really fast.”
Of course, that’s how it works. Resellers usually have algorithms that swallow all the tickets and then make them available to consumers who can’t kick out the bots.
And Bidwill has reason to hype the event. He would like them to crack the resale market, since he (and the rest of the league) is in bed with the legal scalpers as well as the legal bookies.
Bidwill also gave step-right up! a little extra effort claiming that this usually doesn’t happen for games on a neutral site. But it happens every year, multiple times, for games played in Europe.
So yes, the game is sold out. But, no, it’s not that hard to get tickets if you want to go, because there are still a lot of good places. And the Cardinals would rather you buy yours from SeatGeek.
