SUPER BOWL XLV SUPER Price Gouging

SUPER BOWL XLV SUPER Price Gouging!


One of America's favorite past-times is to watch the coveted NFL play out the season ending Super Bowl. And one lucky city around the nation gets to hold the event. In this case, North Texas city of Arlington has that honor this year. This is also a popular venue to release outrageous commercials and vendors pays in the millions for mere seconds of air play. 

As we North Texans get ready to host America's largest party, we have been instructed by TV commercials from Troy Aikman to show our guests our Texan hospitality. We the people are sure inclined to do so; however, some hotels are showing the rest of the nation that everything is bigger in Texas, especially hotel rates!

A small indication to this hotel rate hike, here is one example, the Days Inn in Arlington near Cowboys Stadium is charging $361 to $405 a night. $699 for a room at a Super 8 Motel on Super Bowl Sunday.

Also, let us not forget our beloved host, Jerry himself, charging over $200 to watch the Super Bowl in the parking lot on a big screen television. Also, Jerry has the NFL convinced to count those as tickets to achieve the record of most attendance of a Super Bowl. 

So if you were to fly in for one night, pay $405 for the night and $200 for the parking lot room (not inside the stadium), you have spent $605 without the consideration of drinks or food or even transportation to and from the event. If you decide on a rental there will be a parking charge as well.
Parking can run you from $49.50 to $577.50, depending on how close they are to the stadium. Some parking lots are offering a flat rate plus a free shuttle to and from the game.

The gouging does not stop there, oh no sir, I have heard reports of price gouging on paraphernalia and other items that our Packer and Steeler fans would purchase for a mere 1000% price increase.
Slap a picture of the Stadium with Roman Numerals of XLV and slap a Packers or Steelers logo and you got some money!


Not only will the fans be paying for this so will the locals. The roads that have not been completed as of yet will be overly congested. I suggest not traveling the roads that weekend.
The traffic around the stadium is already a nightmare, adding a few hundred thousand more, just peachy. I guess if you are a taxi cab driver you will be doing well that day.

I have an idea, why not give me 50 bucks, a 6-pack of cold ones, and some chips. You can crash on my couch and watch the game in HD. No parking charges or any other hidden charges.

My two cents: Be weary of the parking situation, hotel situation, and any transportation charges that do not seem fair. Let us try to be fair to our visitors.