Super Bowl tickets will start trickling out to the marketplace this week, and sports fans are likely to covet them like insider shares of a hot IPO.
On the eve of the ticket distribution, one New York ticket broker told The Post he is set to open the bidding at a whopping $2,200 for an upper-deck ticket, more than four times the lowest $500 face value.
The upper deck tickets are expected to resell at up to $2,880, meaning the broker could walk away with a 30 percent profit.
More desirable lower bowl tickets will have an opening-bid price of up to $3,000, with a resell price expected to be in the neighborhood of $3,900.
And those prices are before fans even know which teams will play. As the possible Super Bowl opponents list gets winnowed down, the prices could go even higher, the broker said.
Of course, they could also fall if the teams are less popular or far from New York. Roughly 40 percent of tickets get given to the teams that make the Super Bowl.
The tickets are expected to trickle out beginning this week because the NFL will start giving some out in the next few days to players on teams that did not make the playoffs, including 12,000 to the host Giants and Jets.
These will be the among the first actual tickets hitting the market. Brokers are now taking orders and signing contracts to deliver tickets, but generally do not have physical tickets in their hands.
Also affecting ticket prices will be whether corporate sponsors who get tickets for the first outdoor cold-weather Super Bowl elect to keep their tickets or resell, said broker Tom Patania, CEO of Select A Ticket.
Tickets bids are running slightly ahead of the pace set by last year’s game in New Orleans, Patania said.