The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Week 8 Sunday Night Football clash against the Green Bay Packers is one of the NFL’s most expensive tickets. Not only is that expected to be Aaron Rodgers’ revenge game against his longtime team, but it is also expected to be the Steelers against the Packers anyway.
The average ticket price to attend that game is well north of $400, coming in at $454, the fifth-most in the NFL this season.
Steelers games, whether at home or on the road, are generally always jacked up just because of their brand, and this is no exception. The Steelers’ game against the Los Angeles Chargers just missed this list, popping in at 12th overall. Rodgers’ decision is also driving up the price of the tickets for the Green Bay game specifically. A biographer, Ian O’Connor, who has chronicled Rodgers’ life at length, says that he believes Rodgers’ personal issue will not prevent him from playing football, and he anticipates it being taken care of by the end of May. “Talking to a couple of people close to Aaron, I have a sense of what it might be,” O’Connor said on 93.7 the Fan. “I’m not comfortable reporting it right now, but I don’t think it would prevent him from playing football with the Steelers… I just think verbally, behind the scenes, not that he guaranteed it, but he’s told (the Steelers), ‘Listen I’m gonna play for you. I just don’t want to go there and then miss part of mandatory minicamp because of my personal issues. I’m pretty sure they’re gonna be solved by the end of May, at least in my satisfaction where I can give you my all.’ I think that’s where he is.”
O’Connor notes that Rodgers was irked he took heat last year for missing mandatory minicamp with the New York Jets for a pre-planned trip to Egypt. He might not want to ink his deal until after the spring calendar if he has something similar this year.
Either way, he is convinced Rodgers will eventually sign with the Steelers, as most people are at this point in the process. The Steelers’ moves have shown confidence in landing Rodgers, too, and so that seems to be the likely endpoint, which will jack up ticket prices.
