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Broncos punter paid $1,800 for newborn's Super Bowl ticket
- Updated: February 3, 2016
Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesBritton Colquitt and his wife, Nikki, have three young kids.
The NFL is robbing the cradle.
Every person entering Levi’s Stadium for Sunday’s Super Bowl must have a ticket, even newborns.
Broncos punter Britton Colquitt forked over $ 1,800 for a ticket for his two-week-old daughter, buying a seat for someone who can’t even sit up yet.
“There’s no age limit to tickets. It’s $ 1,800 for our week-old daughter we just had. It’s kind of crazy,” Colquitt told the Denver Post. “(She) won’t remember, but I’m paying for it.”
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Players can get up to 15 tickets to the game, but only two of them are free. Colquitt told CBS Sports that he’s getting the maximum number of tickets allowed, meaning he shelled out $ 23,400 for friends and family — his dad and uncle both punted in the NFL and his brother is the Chiefs’ punter — to see the game. Colquitt, playing in his second Super Bowl, noted that buying tickets eats up a chunk of his upcoming Super Bowl bonus; players on the losing team get $ 49,000 while the winners can take home up to $ 97,000.
So, Denver’s punter is willing to pay the Mile High ticket price — he might not be happy about it, but he’ll pay it — in order to have his family in attendance. Colquitt and his wife have three kids, all under the age of four. His wife is nursing their newborn daughter, so it’s preferable that mother and daughter stay together.
Maybe he’ll take a page out of Drew Brees’ playbook and puts some big headphones over those tiny ears.
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Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today SportsBritton Colquitt is heading to his second Super Bowl with the Broncos.
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“If we win and my wife and two kids are there, but she’s not, how do I explain that to her?” Colquitt told CBSSports.com. “In the pictures, if we win, I’d like her to be in it.”
All NBA and MLB teams have ticket policies that allow young kids into the arena/ballpark for free, whether it’s based on age or height, according to Ticket City.
The NFL is far less lenient. Of the 32 teams, seven require tickets for fans of all ages — the Colts, Steelers, Packers, Patriots, Eagles and Washington — and two teams, the Panthers and Cowboys, only allow freebies for kids who are one-and-under. The remaining teams either have a 2-and-under or height rule — anywhere from 32 to 36 inches, which generally describes a 3-year-old. The Saints are the most generous, according to Ticket City, allowing kids 6-and-under into the Superdome for free.
Leave it to the NFL to find a way to make Hollywood and airline companies look generous — even those notoriously greedy industries don’t charge for kids 2-and-under.
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