Vikings spend nearly $2 million on tickets at Detroit’s Ford Field for Week 18 clash vs. Lions

Week 18’s Sunday night matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions could very well be the best in NFL regular season history, featuring two teams with 14–2 records — the most combined wins in a non-playoff game.

With a No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs and a first-round bye at stake, the Vikings are spending considerable resources to make sure they have strong fan representation at Detroit’s Ford Field. To be exact, the team has spent nearly $2 million.

Leading up to Sunday’s game, the Vikings purchased approximately 1,900 tickets at the Lions’ home stadium on the secondary market at around $1,000 per ticket, according to Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. The team then offered its season ticket holders an opportunity via email to buy the seats at a much lower price — some of them for as low as $200 per ticket.

Minnesota Vikings season ticket holders were offered an opportunity to buy tickets at Detroit’s Ford Field for the Week 18 matchup with the Detroit Lions. The seats were purchased on the secondary market. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

The Lions noticed the activity and discovered the email from the Vikings offering their season ticket base “the opportunity to purchase lower-level seats for Sunday night’s game. Mostly located behind the visiting team’s bench area at Ford Field, the tickets were offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Additionally, Minnesota stated that the tickets were “intended to be used by Vikings fans and not positioned for resale.”

However, ticket buyers being ticket buyers, the idea of fair play wasn’t followed by all purchasers, as Breer detailed.

“One ticketholder sold their seat on the secondary market for $724. The buyer then turned around and sold the ticket to Advantage Tickets, a company the Vikings worked with, for $1,200,” he wrote. “The Vikings then sold the ticket to a season ticket holder for $300. The season ticket holder, in turn, sold it on the secondary market for $690. That buyer was,…

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Publish date : 2025-01-04 23:46:00

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