Fans are clamoring for a chance to witness the Detroit Lions, who have been anFans are clamoring for a chance to witness the Detroit Lions, who have been an NFL laughingstock for decades, as they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the NFC Divisional Round playoff game on Sunday.
Passes to the game at Detroit’s Ford Field are being listed on websites that sell used tickets for as much as $17,000 each.
Stubhub indicates that tickets for the Detroit Lions vs. Bucs game are going for $494 to $17,078 apiece.
Additionally, some nosebleed tickets stick and offered by TicketMaster for about $500.
The average price of a ticket for the game is $1,097, according to the internet marketplace TickPick, making it the most expensive Divisional Round playoff game ever.
After the Lions’ thrilling 24-23 victory over the Los Angeles Rams at home on Sunday, the team’s first postseason triumph in thirty-two years, drove Motor City into a frenzy.
The team reached the NFC Championship Game in 2022 with the great Barry Sanders at running back but has mostly languished toward the bottom of the pack over the decades.
The Lions’ last run of success the was in the pre-Super Bowl era, when it won three league titles between 1952 and 1957.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, singer Bob Seger, actor Jeff Daniels, and actor, writer, and producer Keegan-Michael Key—all from Michigan—are anticipated to attend, in addition to Eminem, one of the team’s biggest supporters.
The rapper recently revealed his admiration for his fans on Instagram, stating that he made the Lions winning the Super Bowl his New Year’s resolve.
The playoff run of the Lions has brought attention to their hometown, which is welcoming the rebirth of its professional football team as a symbol of the city’s economic recovery.
In the 1950s, Detroit was a thriving metropolis due to the economic might of the once-dominant American automobile industry.
But foreign competition as well as the shipping of manufacturing jobs overseas plunged the Motor City into decades of financial ruin — culminating in 2013, when it declared bankruptcy.
Since that period, Detroit has been undergoing a renaissance of sorts spurred on by companies relocating to its refurbished downtown area.
