Chiefs-Dolphins Wild Card tickets ridiculously cheap in anticipation of frigid conditions

As much as Kansas City fans love their Chiefs, it seems they appreciate keeping their toes and fingers more this week. The U.S. is plunging into a freeze across the midwest and the extreme temperatures expected at Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday night have tickets for the Wild Card round game between the Chiefs and the Dolphins falling to exceptionally low prices.

Tickets for the upper bowl of the stadium are going for under $45 per ticket. It’s a deal Stub Hub qualifies as “Amazing.” Standing room-only tickets for the Dallas Cowboys-Green Bay Packers game at AT&T Stadium (a covered stadium) aren’t even as cheap as the Chiefs-Dolphins tickets. For comparison, tickets for the upper bowl of the Cowboys stadium on Sunday sold for $136 on Friday. Tickets for the Bills-Steelers game are also relatively cheap as they brace for frigid temperatures on game day.

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Other upper bowl ticket prices for this weekend’s wild card matchups are as follows:
Cowboys-Packers: $136
Bills-Steelers: $81
Lions-Rams: $427
Buccaneers-Eagles: $93
Texans-Browns: $124

Not that it makes matters much worse given the already-extreme conditions, the KC-Miami game is set to kickoff at 8 p.m. ET, way after the sun goes down.

This weekend’s Super Wild Card slate for the first time includes an exclusive broadcast on NBC’s streaming platform Peacock. The Chiefs versus Dolphins game won’t be on cable in an effort by NBC to gain more subscribers for Peacock.

Congressman writes to Roger Goodell about Chiefs-Dolphins game on Peacock

Many NFL fans aren’t happy that one of the six Wild Card round games won’t be accessible even though they already pay for NBC via their cable subscription. One such fan is New York democratic Congressman Pat Ryan.

This week, Ryan wrote a letter to NBC and the NFL to convince the two parties to put the game on broadcast television and “end the exclusive and exploitative streaming deals for good.”

“How much more profit do Goodell and NBC need to make at the expense of hard working Americans?” Ryan posted on X with a copy of his letter.

“It’s a disgrace. Fans already face exorbitant prices to watch every game during the regular season; they don’t deserve to be squeezed even further by greedy corporations,” Ryan wrote to the two organizations. “This bait-and-switch is particularly egregious for consumers who already pay for NBC as part of their cable package.”

“Enough is enough,” he continued. “The NFL raked in $12 billion in 2022, while NBCUniversal made nearly $40 billion. It’s time we put power back where it belongs: with the fans.”

Peacock, which currently costs $5.99 for the month or $29.99 for the year with their current 50% off deal, also has exclusive streaming rights for many of NBC’s old hit shows like Modern Family, The Office, Scrubs and Parks and Rec.