A Super Bowl berth isn't just a dream for players, it's a dream for the players' friends, family, mail carriers, grocery baggers, dry cleaning attendants, and other assorted hangers-on. Everybody wants a taste of that sweet, sweet Super Bowl ticket action, and that can turn players into ticket brokers at a time when they need to be focusing on the most important game of their lives.
The Patriots are old hands at this postseason business, and that allows them to keep the grasping opportunists at bay. Julian Edelman, for instance, knows that the best way to keep people from asking for you for tickets every time is to repel them the first time.
"I'm a pretty big a-hole to all my friends and family," Edelman said. "They know that. When it's football time it's football time."
Last year, players got two complimentary tickets to the Super Bowl and had the option of buying up to 13 more tickets at face value, which at 2014 prices totaled anywhere from about $10,000 to $20,000.
The key for players, Edelman noted, is to stay in the groove. "I think you want to make the process as familiar as possible to what you're used to by going out and preparing like you try to do everyday," he said. "Going in the hot tub, the cold tub, getting your treatment every day. It's gonna be a little differnt. Usually the team that can handle that stuff the best is usually the team that comes out with a win."
And therein lies the rub. This game pits two teams very well familiar with "handling the stuff" of Super Bowl week. So if you're pulling for one team, you'd be well advised to start badgering the other one for tickets.
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