You are not going to the Super Bowl. You are not a corporate
sponsor or a Bruno Mars roadie or the guy who polishes the
Snoopy sculpture outside of MetLife Stadium, so you can absorb
this news as an abstraction: the NFL is majorly jacking up the
prices of the best seats for its first cold-weather Super Bowl,
and making it harder for the people with "cheap" tickets to re-
sell them.  The Wall Street Journal reports that the prices for
the most expensive tickets for Super Bowl XLVIII—the club seats,
of which the stadium has more than 9,000—will more be than
double last year's best seats, $2,600 up from $1,250. The lower
bowl seats will rise to $1,500. It's a big jump from the usual
steady upward trend, and it's not just because everything in New
York is more expensive. It's all because of scalping.   What
he's saying, once you translate it from Newspeak, is that a tiny
proportion of face-value tickets even go to fans in the first
place. Most go to disinterested corporate partners, and many of
those are sold for