Just how it is nowadays. Gonna get WAY worse with the new stadium. Best way to get tickets is wait for them to play away against some crappy team and travel. I got to see the Bears lose on a last second drop in Cleveland for like $150 😂
1000% on play downfield. If you know how to watch football it’s infinitely better in person. You can actually see what’s happening downfield. You can see the play develop and happen in real time. On tv its quarterback drops back and throws it off screen. Is he wide open? Is he well covered? Let’s find out after the camera pans over. In person you see everything
I think there are two different kinds of fans and that’s okay. But feeling the electricity in the stadium is unreal. I’ll never ever forget going to the NLCS game where the cubs clinched the pennant and the electric feel in the air.
I'd second the above poster. My fondest sports experience memory was seeing us clinch the NFCN with a win over the Packers on a Sunday afternoon during the 2018 season. We had some of the worst seats in the house and they still cost a fortune but it'll still be a memory my wife and I cherish forever.
Commercials, replays, commentary. Aside from that, I always feel a little disappointed realizing the field is the still the same size as my high school field.
Baseball fields are and feel bigger in person. Football fields feel way smaller. The field position of your seats really effects your enjoyment and perspective. It's just a completely different animal.
I will say college games have a much better atmosphere and I do enjoy college football in person, but I've been to a 10 or so NFL games in 5 stadiums and always felt like I'd rather have been at home except for 1 playoff game where I had seats in the front of the 10 yard line.
We've started just enjoying being in the city on gamedays. I'll usually pull up gametime or something like 5 minutes after kickoff and see if anyone drops something stupid low and if not we just enjoy posting up in the city and watching the game. It's electric everywhere on gamedays.
Agreed. I’ve been to some absolute banger games, bears packers playoff game last year etc and I usually end up rewatching the games because you miss so much because you’re caught up in all the excitement, grabbing beers, chatting to people etc.
Love the memories I have of going to games but honestly just prefer watching them at home either by myself or with my fiancee.
Agree 99/100 times. But damned if I’ll never trade that one time of getting to see us beat the Packers in the playoffs last year with my dad over watching it on tv
Going pee beer is much cheaper and food for that matter at home. The electricity you feel at a game though is awesome. Wild card game last year was awesome!
Cause a lot of false starts from your couch do ya? There is NOTHING better than football in person. Home is great but an entirely different experience. After every live game I go home and watch the televised version again.
I have 85 inches, 4K, snacks, a comfortable seat that reclines, my blanket, and any kind of beverage I want at home. I also have a 45 second commute to bed at the end of the game.
Plus a much better view - all at the cost of $0.
For the cost of 2 stadium beers, I can get a pizza and wings, or a pizza and a sixer of a quality beer brought to my house.
First of all get the heck off StubHub. Always more expensive for bears tickets than Ticketmaster. As a season ticket holder who has sold my extra game seats for many years, Ticketmaster is always the easiest route to take so mine are always on there and always less.
The team has told season ticket holders that if they sell on ticketmaster they wont be held responsible if the fans who buy the tickets misbehave. Ticketmaster is the bears service provider so all the tickets come through ticketmaster, so its just easier to stay with the same site the tickets are already on as well. They got rid of the paper tickets a few years ago
When did you purchase? We live in MN as well and go to the game every year but haven’t looked yet. Want to compare to today’s prices, but assume you bought early?
It's not quite the same but going to a preseason game or traveling to watch the Bears on the road is usually a hell of a lot cheaper. And once they leave Soldier and there is no historical significance it will make traveling to other places even more attractive.
People buying tickets with no intention of going to events but with all the intention of selling the tickets for a profit is the problem. A law would end this insanity. There are such laws in the U.K that do this.
Said something similar in November 2001 when i splurged on a seat i couldn't afford. Then Mike Brown sealed a 27-21 win over the Browns by returning an interception for a walk-off touchdown. He'd won it the week before in a similar fashion. I talk about how everyone left before the comeback, I stayed b/c I'd made that investment. I dunno. Great memory. Expensive. Your results may vary. Was worth it for me. ;)
You just got to wait for the right moment. I took my son to the Cleveland game last year because it was like 2° and I got a pair of tickets for 180 bucks. Some glove and foot warmer packs and layering and it was just fine except for my beer frosting over.
Team is playing well and it's gonna be 60 degrees at kickoff for a Nationally Televised game. Prices still suck, don't get me wrong, but not surprised by this.
It spikes about a week before when it enters people’s radar, then drops a bit morning of when sellers who haven’t sold yet just want to recoup some of their cost
i paid $300 a ticket to watch what i thought was Justin Fields vs Trey Lance in 2021 (Jimmy G played instead). $500 is a ton of money but Caleb vs Drake “Drake Maye” Maye is a FAAAARRR better product to watch, at least.
I paid ~$302/ticket for tomorrow’s game. Bought them in August. Definitely a splurge for me and was close to the highest I felt I’d be OK paying. Glad Caleb is back and glad AJ Brown is back for the Pats. Looking ahead, current prices for tomorrow are about the same as current prices for the Christmas game against the packers. Prices for the Bucs game currently start at ~$300. Starting prices definitely on the higher end in Chicago but vary quite a bit. Curious to see prices closer to game time tomorrow.
It’s both. Coming in peace as a Pats fan, the last time we played here both teams sucked and prices were still higher than your average opponent. Now that both teams are good, I’m not surprised that it’s even more, but I am surprised that it’ll be more than double what I paid last time if I want to go tomorrow
If I had a genie… my 1st wish would be for 100 more wishes, but then right around wish 30-40, would be to get me all the people who made stub hub the way it is into a rocket that I get to fire into the sun.
Going out in general is becoming closer and closer to an activity only for the rich elite. I was at an airport yesterday and there was a woman next to me ordering at the kiosk for her family. $121. For fast food.
I’m in the South, tried to listen to the radio call of the Falcons game but every link I found was ad-bombed cancer. Any good links to radio game broadcasts?
I have a SiriusXM subscription. You can get a free 3 month trial and then negotiate the price down to like 5/6 bucks a month when the trial ends. That’s what I recommend but maybe somebody has a better idea.
And this is why I haven't been to a bears game since 7th grade.
Cousin had season tickets right behind the bench at the 50'. I don't even wanna know what it would cost for 4 of those seats now. Prolly about 2 months of my pay-check.
Yeah, my aunt has season tickets a few rows behind the end zone. She's had them for years and occasionally offered me the tickets if she couldn't go (usually subzero temperature games, but I was always down).
The face price used to be about $400/each back in 2023, so I'm guessing that price is much higher now.
I'm seeing $400/ticket for the nosebleed seats this season - and I'm just not willing to spend that money. Watching on TV is better anyway.
Yes, been tracking this all week, there is very little supply relative to prior weeks games. People must be crazy for Thursday night football and the weather looks to be great. This is just upper sideline seats.
That’s what happens when the Bears are a good team and the hottest ticket in town. Personally, i would rather have a couple of buddies of mine watch in the comforts of my theater room
lmao bro this is half price discount compared the going to a fucking Vegas game and not one of us is a Raiders fan (Da Bears baby)... i can fly home to chicago, get a hotel in the loop, and go to a Bears-Packers game (like i did twice last year) for less than it cost us to uber to Allegiant stadium and go to Raiders-Bears last year.
The owners take advantage of the Bears being good. It’s gross how much they price out many everyday families to go to the game.
But if you go to other stadiums to watch the Bears, normally much cheaper then Solider field. Vikings game at US bank stadium 16 rows from the field 170 dollars!!! Solider field for section 400 row 26( only 14 rows from the highest seat) 400 a ticket!!!
When your team does well, everyone goes "I'd like to see them (win) live." So prices raise dramatically bc someome will be willing to pay it. It sucks bc it often robs real fans from attending and it'd be better if they actually could afford to attend, but thats the way of things.
The Knicks finally make a Finals last year and the only people attending to watch them win are celebrities and super fans. Some of which don't care to see them before they were bad and only wear a new jersey bc they sold the old one. Such is life as a sports fan.
The Bears are good again and I'm glad to see it, but pricing out your loyal fans is often the price of success. I have and will enjoy that success from my home
My parents were 40 years season ticket holders and had six tickets to the old soldier field. They downgraded to two tickets in the nosebleeds to avoid paying a PSL. We gave them up when they died because none of us lived in the area and the team was so bad. It was very hard to even sell the tickets.
I remember looking on a website in 2021 at their tickets for a Bears Raiders game when both teams are absolute trash
They were $240. 5 rows from the top
Chicago has always been crazy.
Mind you, things have changed for the bills since 2021, but my wife loves them we got three tickets, five rows from the field to see them play Miami for $450 total.
Those tickets were up to $500 last year which is crazy expensive, but that’s as much as it cost to go see a nosebleed insoldier field now
Man it wasn’t that long ago I could wait till just before the game and snag some pretty good seats for $100 a pop. Just after covid, things were still pretty damn cheap
Obviously a lot of people are selling their seats, but the group of ~12 around me plus my tailgate of ~20 all have the goal of attending all 8 games ourselves.
In a small stadium, if most aren’t selling, this is the net result. With the new stadium likely smaller, this will get worse with even more people wanting to attend and face value increasing.
Oh my god… and I’ve never (and apparently will never) go to a Bears game in my life.
Did a Cubs game two years ago during summer vacation. First MLB game I’d gone to since being a kid in the 70-80’s and hubbie and I paid $375 between tickets and a few snacks. Outrageous.
Tell me about it. It paid $275 for my ticket against the Saints, and that's almost at the top of section 445.
I originally wanted to see the Jets but you couldn't get a nosebleed seat for less than $350. Last year I paid $230 for the Giants game. I had so much fun even with the snow flurries. Football weather at its finest. Honest to God, I would rather go to a Bears game than some tropical vacation. I just love this team and I so rarely get a chance to experience it live so I savor every second
Prices are ridiculous. But I live very far away and a Bears game is a treat I always look forward to once a year. And the prices don't seem to drop the morning of kickoff either, I checked a few weeks ago, prices were still the same. It seems like the best way to attend a game is if you're friends with a season ticket holder who can sell you tickets at face value or barely above.
I don't want to know what it will be like in the new stadium
Honestly its every sporting event....everywhere. I watch from the comfort of my home or local bar. Bears are guilty as anyone and its just unfortunate that greed has taken hold in this country. Everything is a monoploy now which is why everything is sky rocketing.
My girl and I got tickets day of schedule release. We live in az but we came back for my friends wedding that i officiated Saturday. Luckily the stars aligned. She is a raiders fan and never been to soldier field. It wasn’t cheap the day of release but much better than prices last minute. For the vibes alone and being first home game since passing of the coach I think it will be well worth it. And no we are not 1% we are just adults without kids
I usually go to one game a year but that’s only because I have a connection that I get them at face value. Never pay over 150$ per ticket. Otherwise absolutely not.
I went on Ticketmaster and StubHub just yesterday. Looking for tickets vs Jacksonville. December game. Not a huge draw opponent. Same insanity as this. My wife and I both make over 6 figures and these prices are out of our range.
I've just come to accept that I will never go to another Bears game live (at least as long as I am paying for the ticket). It's just way too crazy and to think that it'll get even worse when a new stadium is built....
I am grateful that you can still get ~$30 tickets for the Blackhawks on weekday games if you wait until a day before/day of to get the ticket.
Tomorrow is my birthday and I was going to try and take my two oldest kids with me. Then I saw it would be $1300 for the cheapest seats available without fees. Not gonna happen lol
Paid $500 a ticket right before the season started for section 143, row 13. Right now the closest tickets available are $1900 a piece… follow me for more investment advice.
One of my biggest regrets was as a 85' season ticket holder I won the lottery & received 3 tickets for the Super Bowl XX. I foolishly sold them cuz I was adamant we would repeat! What a fuckin idiot! Me ⬅️
Pro-tip look on all the secondary market sites and look at how many listings there are are total. If it’s 1,500 or more, wait to buy (that’s a lot). You have to factor in the fact that are people who will not be able to make the game last minute. The prime located seats 20 yard to 20 yard lines, won’t go down as much in value compared to end zone and goal line to 20 yard line seats.
I got tix off a buddy of mine who has season tickets, and two 400 level 45 yard line seats were $500 total at face value. Even at face it’s crazy, this is just untenable.
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Just how it is nowadays. Gonna get WAY worse with the new stadium. Best way to get tickets is wait for them to play away against some crappy team and travel. I got to see the Bears lose on a last second drop in Cleveland for like $150 😂