400 People With Tickets to the Super Bowl Couldn’t Get Seats

Jerry Jones has been hyping 'Cowboys Stadium' as the home of the Super Bowl all season long.  Even while the Cowboys' season was tanking. His specific goal was to break the NFL's single-game attendance record of 103,985. And for that, they get THIS Monday morning headline:  400 fans with Super Bowl tickets lost their seats, because of safety concerns with the temporary seating sections...sections that were still being built at the last minute, hours before the game. Read more on the next page.

The stadium has an official capacity of about 80,000, so the Cowboys added 15,000 temporary seats, and set up plazas where people could watch the game on monitors.

850 people had to be relocated to similar or better seats, but another 400 COULDN'T be relocated:  There were no seats available.

They were eventually placed either in a field-level club behind the Steelers bench, where they watched the game on TV, or in standing-room areas where they could see the game on the field, but not sit.

The NFL is giving all 400 of them a refund that's three times the $600 to $900 face value of their tickets.

But the fact remain...400 people bought flights, hotel rooms, and tickets to a possibly once-in-a-lifetime Super Bowl match-up, hundreds of miles away, and couldn't even get their SEAT at the game.  The seat they paid for.  Nice job Jerry.

And since some or most of them probably paid a LOT more than the face value of the ticket ($3,000 in some cases) then these people lost out BIG time.  The official crowd estimate was 103, 215...so the record wasn't broken anyway.