NFL Fines Over 100 Players and Staff for Unauthorized Super Bowl Ticket Sales

The league notified more than 100 players and about two dozen employees on July 25 that they breached NFL policy by selling Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value. Players must pay 1.5 times the face value of each ticket and employees owe double, and both groups are barred from acquiring tickets to the next two Super Bowls unless they participate on the field. Investigators uncovered a network of packagers and secondary-market resellers who inflated premium seat prices up to $40,000. NFL officials say the probe is nearing completion as they prepare to roll out mandatory compliance training and stricter ticket distribution rules ahead of Super Bowl LX. The sanctions enforce a clause in the 2020 collective-bargaining agreement that prohibits league personnel from reselling Super Bowl tickets above face value.

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