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Super Bowl ticket prices are rising faster than a Joe Flacco bomb.
The price for a ticket to the big game has soared a whopping 9,900 percent since the best teams of the American Football League and the National Football League locked horns in the 1967 inaugural championship.
Back then, a premium ticket to watch Bart Starr and the Green Bay Packers pound the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 cost a mere $12 — or $89.49 adjusted for inflation. That’s a far cry from the $1,200 fans will pony up to see the San Francisco 49ers square off against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday in New Orleans.
Premium ticket prices have been growing at an average annual rate of 10.5 percent, or 6.1 percent adjusted for inflation.
They got their biggest bump after the San Francisco 49ers beat the San Diego Chargers in 1995.
The next year, the price jumped to $350 (or $512.16 adjusted for inflation) from $200 ($301.30), with fans shelling out a 75 percent premium to watch the Dallas Cowboys trump the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17.