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- Super Bowl tickets have gone up in price almost every year over the last several decades.
- A look at investing in Bitcoin instead of Super Bowl tickets over the last 13 seasons.
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The Kansas City Chiefs have won the last two Super Bowls and are attempting to be the first NFL team to win three in a row in Super Bowl LIX.
While fans of the team will shell out thousands of dollars to attend the game in New Orleans, millions will watch the game from the comfort of their home or a Super Bowl viewing party. Here's a look at what would have happened if a person invested the amount they would have spent on Super Bowl tickets for the last 14 seasons on Bitcoin BTC/USD instead.
What Happened: Bitcoin was launched in January 2009 with the first 50 BTC mined. The launch of the cryptocurrency, which today is the largest by market capitalization, followed a whitepaper that was released in October 2008.
It took several years for Bitcoin transactions to reach mainstream and it to become easier for users to buy and sell the cryptocurrency on major exchanges.
One of the first-ever recognized Bitcoin transactions happened in October 2009 when a Finnish computer student sold 5,050 Bitcoin for $5.02. Less than a year later, in May 2010, one of the most famous Bitcoin transactions of all-time took place when programmer Laszlo Hanyecz sought out a person to buy him pizza in exchange for Bitcoin.
A person in England spent around $41 to buy pizza from Papa John’s for Hayecz in what is widely believed to be the first retail transaction using Bitcoin.
Today, investors can buy and sell Bitcoin across many cryptocurrency platforms and stock brokerages. Bitcoin is also an acceptable payment form several places.
Mark Yusko, who is the founder of Morgan Creek Capital and Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital, shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, that investing in Bitcoin over Super Bowl tickets is his advice.
“Every year, I advise people to take the money they would have spent on Super Bowl tickets and buy Bitcoin instead,” Yusko said.
Investing in Bitcoin Over Super Bowl Tickets: The price of Super Bowl tickets has risen almost every year and continues to be one of the most expensive sporting events annually.
Sometimes fans shell out thousands to go and support their team and other times fans of the National Football League go to celebrate the potential once in a lifetime opportunity or because the Super Bowl is in a city near where they live.
Here’s a look at how much a ticket to the Super Bowl cost each year since 2012 using data from various sources, including GoBanking and how much Bitcoin a person could buy with the ticket money instead. The value of Bitcoin today is based on a price of $95,922.53 at the time of writing.
| Year | Super Bowl Ticket Price | Bitcoin Price | #BTC Could Buy | Value Today |
| 2012 | $1,200 | $5.18 | 231.6602 | $22,221,432.48 |
| 2013 | $1,250 | $20.65 | 60.532.7 | $5,806,449.73 |
| 2014 | $1,500 | $699.57 | 2.1442 | $205,677.09 |
| 2015 | $2,000 | $231.57 | 8.6367 | $828,454.11 |
| 2016 | $2,500 | $380.87 | 6.5639 | $629,625.89 |
| 2017 | $2,500 | $1,043.63 | 2.3955 | $229,782.42 |
| 2018 | $2,500 | $9,334.87 | 0.2678 | $25,688.05 |
| 2019 | $2,900 | $3,521.39 | 0.8235 | $78,992.20 |
| 2020 | $4,300 | $9,468.80 | 0.4541 | $43,558.42 |
| 2021 | $8,609 | $39,621.84 | 0.2173 | $20,843.97 |
| 2022 | $8,869 | $42,693.05 | 0.2077 | $19,923.11 |
| 2023 | $6,800 | $22,060.99 | 0.3082 | $29,563.32 |
| 2024 | $8,600 | $48,535.94 | 0.1772 | $16,997.47 |
| 2025 | $4,232 | $96,922.53 | 0.0441 | $4,232.00 |
In total, buying Super Bowl tickets the last 14 seasons would have a cost of $57,760 per person. This amount invested each year in Bitcoin instead could have generated a sizable return.
In total, the person would have over 314 Bitcoin and have turned their investment of $57,760 into $30,161,220.26.
For comparison, investing the amount of the Super Bowl ticket in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which tracks the S&P 500, would have generated much smaller returns.
A trip to a Super Bowl can be a once in a lifetime experience, but for many the cost of tickets, airfare and travel outweighs the experience. Fans of teams in the big game or the NFL in general can watch the game free at home, with the game airing on Fox this year.
Last year’s Super Bowl set a record for viewership with 123.4 million viewers on average with 202.4 million people watching at least a portion of the game.
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This article was previously published by Benzinga and has been updated.
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