Super Bowl: The crowd by numbers

For the first time, the Super Bowl will be played in the home stadium of one of the contenders. But whose side will the crowd be on? Yes, there will be a live crowd at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium next Sunday, when Tom Brady and the Buccaneers take on the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs (who won’t fly in until Saturday under the pandemic protocols). A limited number of fans will be allowed in — each one issued a mask and hand sanitizer — after a season in which 13 of 32 NFL teams never played a single game before a home crowd. Here’s a closer look at some of the key numbers:

22,000

Seats made available for Super Bowl LV (plus about 2,000 spots in luxury suites)

30%

Of capacity at Raymond James Stadium

7,500

Free tickets will go to frontline health workers, most from the Tampa area and all of them vaccinated for COVID-19

1,000

Approximate number of tickets allotted to the Bucs and Chiefs. Players and coaches can also buy up to four more at up to $3,650 (U.S.) apiece, Yahoo Sports reported.

$8,000

Approximate price of the cheapest ticket online

1,500

Tickets available from online brokers as of mid-week

$51,622

Asking price for one ticket on the Bucs sideline

61,946

Previous low for Super Bowl attendance, for the first one in Los Angeles in 1967

28,187

Average Dallas Cowboys home crowd in the regular season, largest in the NFL

1.2 million

Tickets sold leaguewide in the regular season

17 million

In an average season Star wire services