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Getting Into Game 1 Costs More Than Getting Into The Super Bowl

The cheapest resale seat for Friday’s World Series opener in Milwaukee ran about $2,700 — more than the get-in price for Super Bowl LX. In 1982, the last time the Brewers played in a Series, a lower-level ticket had a face value of $18. Some Brewers fans are flying to Florida instead.

By Davies Daily Staff Reports · Friday, October 23, 2026

Fans line up outside the Brewers’ ballpark in Milwaukee, in an earlier season when it was called Miller Park. Photo: Jeramey Jannene, CC BY 2.0 — via Wikimedia Commons.

The cheapest way into American Family Field on Friday night costs more than the cheapest way into the Super Bowl. Resale prices for Game 1 of the World Series put the get-in at about $2,700 for standing room, per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week, and about $2,809 in Front Office Sports’ check — above the $2,600 entry price for Super Bowl LX. Milwaukee has waited 44 years for this game; the market is pricing the wait.

The comparison the Journal Sentinel dug up: in 1982, the last time the Brewers reached the World Series, a lower-level ticket carried a face value of $18, and bleacher seats were $8.

USA Today’s fan reporting found the workaround Milwaukee fans have settled on: skip the home games and fly to St. Petersburg for Games 3, 4 and 5 at Tropicana Field, where the total trip — flights included — runs at roughly half the cost of getting into one game at home. One fan USA Today profiled paid $2,500 for Game 1; in 1982 he had been sent to bed during Game 7, at age 9, with Milwaukee leading.

The prices, in brief

  • Game 1 get-in: about $2,700 (standing room, Journal Sentinel) to $2,809 (Front Office Sports)
  • Super Bowl LX get-in: $2,600
  • 1982 World Series face values in Milwaukee: $18 lower level, $8 bleachers
  • The workaround (USA Today): fly to St. Petersburg for Games 3–5 at about half the cost, flights included
  • Timeless Ticket holders: some angry at upper-level seats offered (SI)

Not everyone holding a golden ticket is happy. Sports Illustrated reports that some holders of the Brewers’ “Timeless Tickets” — tickets bought years ago, redeemable for a future World Series — are angry at the upper-level seats they were offered when the future finally arrived.

Sources: USA Today; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Sports Illustrated; Front Office Sports.

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