Bears/Packers is the toughest ticket in Chicago sports history
That's the word from area ticket brokers, in advance of this Sunday's NFC Championship game between the bitter division rivals. From the Chicago Tribune:
Several brokers said tickets for Sunday's NFC championship game at Soldier Field are by far the most in demand in Chicago sports history, creating a frenetic online market as Bears fans try to decide how much it's worth to see the big game live.
On Monday, $134 seats in the upper reaches of Soldier Field were selling for about $500 each, according to brokers and several ticket resale Web sites. Seats in the stadium's lower levels are going for up to $2,000, said Melissa Janes, who works for a Chicago-area ticket broker.
The "most in demand in Chicago sports history." And "by far"? That's a pretty bold claim. It's not like we're talking about a city that's light on sports history.
Rocky Marciano made his first title defense in Chicago against Jersey Joe Walcott. The Bears have made two Super Bowl runs before, in '85 and in '06. The Bulls had a moderately successful run with a gentleman named Michael Jordan. The unrequited love the city has for the Cubs has made for some very hot tickets. The Blackhawks have won four Stanley Cups. The White Sox are recent World Series champs. Chicago has had some tough tickets before.
And this Sunday's game stands out among all those as the hottest ticket in Chicago sports history? That's difficult to wrap my head around. I'm not even sure I believe it. If it's true or even close to true, it speaks to the intensity of this Bears/Packers rivalry.
My brother is a Steelers BERZERKER, and is determined to get tickets to the Super Bowl, hes pretty certain they'll walk all over the jets. Arlington's only a few hours away.
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PITTSBURGH – Next step, the Super Bowl. The NFL's final four has a strong connection to the big game, from the first champion (Packers) to the winner of perhaps the most significant game (Jets). And from possibly the best Super Bowl team (1985 Bears) to the most dominant franchise of the era (Steelers).
Any matchup at Cowboys Stadium next month will feature plenty of history.
So much so that Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy has emphasized wanting to put up a photo of these Packers on the wall next to the other championship teams — including the first two Super Bowl winners (1966 and '67 seasons), and the 1996 squad.
"We've never lost sight of it because it's always right behind me every day when I speak to the team," McCarthy said of his Packers, who face 90-year rival Chicago at Soldier Field on Sunday for the NFC title. "I pointed to that again ... we're halfway there. We talked about 16 quarters as a football team. We've completed eight of them. And we need to capture these four in Chicago, and it puts us closer to getting that picture on the wall.
"It's a goal that's still in front of us and it was a goal when we started and it's still a goal today."
That the Packers (12-6) face the Bears (12-5) for the 182nd timed with a spot in the Super Bowl on the line adds another historic chapter to the longest series in pro football. Should the Bears win, they would earn their third trip to the big game, one fewer than Green Bay, which is 3-1 in Super Bowls. Chicago is 1-1, having lost to the 2006 Colts.
No one is comparing these Bears to the '85 version that shuffled its way through and over nearly everyone, then pummeled the Patriots 46-10 for the crown. That team is considered by many the best of all the 44 Super Bowl winners.
Should Chicago even approach that level Sunday, it probably will be packing for Big D.
"I think everyone in the locker room knows the magnitude of this game, knows what we're going up against," quarterback Jay Cutler said, "but at the same time we're going to enjoy it, we're going to be loose, we're going to play our game. And we can't worry about what is going to happen afterward if we win, we lose, we just have to go out there and play.
"It's a huge game for Chicago and Green Bay. Just the number of times we've played each other, how familiar the two cities and the two teams are with each other, it's almost like a little mini-Super Bowl. But I know Chicago will be really disappointed if we don't win this game."
The Steelers have only a 7-7 record in AFC title games. But they are 6-1 in Super Bowls, one more championship than San Francisco and Dallas own. The Steel Curtain carried them to four NFL crowns in the 1970s, and the 2005 and 2008 Steelers won it all.
It's a formidable resume Pittsburgh (13-4) carries into the conference championship matchup with New York (13-5).
"There's a history here you want to live up to, a high level of success," linebacker James Farrior said.
The highest level, a place the Jets reached only once. Of course, their 1969 victory over the Colts validated the existence of the AFL, made Joe Namath a superstar, and pretty much established the Super Bowl as something, well, super.
New York has been close four times since: its 1982, 1998 and 2009 teams lost in the AFC championship game. Now, another chance.
"It's great. We expected to be here," loquacious, ultraconfident coach Rex Ryan said. "I don't know if we expected to travel the road we did. That was pretty tough, but we're just the men for the job. We have a locker room of mighty men and we knew what the goal was. We never lost sight of the goal. We always focused on the goal, and here it is."
Like the Packers, the Jets are a No. 6 seed. Unlike Green Bay, which is favored in the NFC title game, the Jets are underdogs.
"The great thing is there have been a ton of doubters, which you know going along the way that there are going to be doubters," Ryan said. "I keep going back to that Ray Robinson quote about when everybody else doubts you, you have to believe in yourself. That is what this team has. This is what this team does. We've always believed in ourselves. We've always believed we would get to this point and beyond. We're going to find out Sunday."
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fukk y00z, i don't want the steelers to win, i'm just speakin the troof. if i could pick a team out of the 4 i wanted to win, it'd be the bears cuz they underdogs...
jets have a good chance tomorrow....i think everyone being on the packers dick is going to help the bears and the way they play...i can't see either team scoring more then 13ish points in that game....if the steelers win i hope its the pack...as i hate the steelers and i am more confident in betting on green bay against them....i don't really care who wins but i have to say im pulling for green bay cause of charles woodson
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That's the word from area ticket brokers, in advance of this Sunday's NFC Championship game between the bitter division rivals. From the Chicago Tribune:
Several brokers said tickets for Sunday's NFC championship game at Soldier Field are by far the most in demand in Chicago sports history, creating a frenetic online market as Bears fans try to decide how much it's worth to see the big game live.
On Monday, $134 seats in the upper reaches of Soldier Field were selling for about $500 each, according to brokers and several ticket resale Web sites. Seats in the stadium's lower levels are going for up to $2,000, said Melissa Janes, who works for a Chicago-area ticket broker.
The "most in demand in Chicago sports history." And "by far"? That's a pretty bold claim. It's not like we're talking about a city that's light on sports history.
Rocky Marciano made his first title defense in Chicago against Jersey Joe Walcott. The Bears have made two Super Bowl runs before, in '85 and in '06. The Bulls had a moderately successful run with a gentleman named Michael Jordan. The unrequited love the city has for the Cubs has made for some very hot tickets. The Blackhawks have won four Stanley Cups. The White Sox are recent World Series champs. Chicago has had some tough tickets before.
And this Sunday's game stands out among all those as the hottest ticket in Chicago sports history? That's difficult to wrap my head around. I'm not even sure I believe it. If it's true or even close to true, it speaks to the intensity of this Bears/Packers rivalry.
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PITTSBURGH – Next step, the Super Bowl. The NFL's final four has a strong connection to the big game, from the first champion (Packers) to the winner of perhaps the most significant game (Jets). And from possibly the best Super Bowl team (1985 Bears) to the most dominant franchise of the era (Steelers).
Any matchup at Cowboys Stadium next month will feature plenty of history.
So much so that Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy has emphasized wanting to put up a photo of these Packers on the wall next to the other championship teams — including the first two Super Bowl winners (1966 and '67 seasons), and the 1996 squad.
"We've never lost sight of it because it's always right behind me every day when I speak to the team," McCarthy said of his Packers, who face 90-year rival Chicago at Soldier Field on Sunday for the NFC title. "I pointed to that again ... we're halfway there. We talked about 16 quarters as a football team. We've completed eight of them. And we need to capture these four in Chicago, and it puts us closer to getting that picture on the wall.
"It's a goal that's still in front of us and it was a goal when we started and it's still a goal today."
That the Packers (12-6) face the Bears (12-5) for the 182nd timed with a spot in the Super Bowl on the line adds another historic chapter to the longest series in pro football. Should the Bears win, they would earn their third trip to the big game, one fewer than Green Bay, which is 3-1 in Super Bowls. Chicago is 1-1, having lost to the 2006 Colts.
No one is comparing these Bears to the '85 version that shuffled its way through and over nearly everyone, then pummeled the Patriots 46-10 for the crown. That team is considered by many the best of all the 44 Super Bowl winners.
Should Chicago even approach that level Sunday, it probably will be packing for Big D.
"I think everyone in the locker room knows the magnitude of this game, knows what we're going up against," quarterback Jay Cutler said, "but at the same time we're going to enjoy it, we're going to be loose, we're going to play our game. And we can't worry about what is going to happen afterward if we win, we lose, we just have to go out there and play.
"It's a huge game for Chicago and Green Bay. Just the number of times we've played each other, how familiar the two cities and the two teams are with each other, it's almost like a little mini-Super Bowl. But I know Chicago will be really disappointed if we don't win this game."
The Steelers have only a 7-7 record in AFC title games. But they are 6-1 in Super Bowls, one more championship than San Francisco and Dallas own. The Steel Curtain carried them to four NFL crowns in the 1970s, and the 2005 and 2008 Steelers won it all.
It's a formidable resume Pittsburgh (13-4) carries into the conference championship matchup with New York (13-5).
"There's a history here you want to live up to, a high level of success," linebacker James Farrior said.
The highest level, a place the Jets reached only once. Of course, their 1969 victory over the Colts validated the existence of the AFL, made Joe Namath a superstar, and pretty much established the Super Bowl as something, well, super.
New York has been close four times since: its 1982, 1998 and 2009 teams lost in the AFC championship game. Now, another chance.
"It's great. We expected to be here," loquacious, ultraconfident coach Rex Ryan said. "I don't know if we expected to travel the road we did. That was pretty tough, but we're just the men for the job. We have a locker room of mighty men and we knew what the goal was. We never lost sight of the goal. We always focused on the goal, and here it is."
Like the Packers, the Jets are a No. 6 seed. Unlike Green Bay, which is favored in the NFC title game, the Jets are underdogs.
"The great thing is there have been a ton of doubters, which you know going along the way that there are going to be doubters," Ryan said. "I keep going back to that Ray Robinson quote about when everybody else doubts you, you have to believe in yourself. That is what this team has. This is what this team does. We've always believed in ourselves. We've always believed we would get to this point and beyond. We're going to find out Sunday."
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Rodgers is going to light it up today and the Jets are going to steal another one in Pittsburgh.
In the words of Bart Scott............CAN'T WAIT >: O
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