Buy Tickets To Watch the Super Bowl...On TV! (Update)

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As expected, tickets to Jerry Jones' Super Bowl viewing party are selling...and selling well. As of Tuesday, Party Plaza tickets on StubHub were selling for an average of $317 as as much as $791. The market was bearing similar prices over on Craigslist with some tickets going for as much as $625 apiece. Keep in mind that face value for tickets to the actual game begins at $600.

Just sayin'...

(H/T: Darren Rovell)

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We now know how much fans will be gouged charged to watch the Super Bowl on television in front of Jerry Jones' gridiron palace.

According to Fox 4 Houston, for the low, low price of $200, you too can get passes to a special pavilion to watch a televised version of the game that will be going on in a building several hundred yards from you! Keep in mind that this is the same game that others will also be watching on television...for free.

Oh, and there will be live performances by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and some band called Reckless Kelly. The good news for Jones (besides getting people to pony up $200 for something they can generally get for free) is that the NFL has agreed to count these extreme tailgaters as part of the game's official crowd, helping him significantly on his quest to break the Super Bowl attendance record.

While I continue to think about how silly this idea is, I know there will be plenty of people lining up just to say they were there.

(H/T: Larry Brown Sports)

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If nothing else, you've gotta give Jerry Jones and the NFL credit for trying.

SportsDayDFW reported on Thursday that the Cowboys' owner along with the league is trying to figure a way to charge fans to watch the Super Bowl from outside Cowboys Stadium. No word just yet on how much tickets will cost and how they will be made available to fans. Presumably they won't reach the $600-$1200 face value of tickets to the actual game, but with space likely at a premium in a newly-created special viewing plaza, you can guess that they'll still cost a pretty penny.

Although this shouldn't be surprising in a league that charges fans full price to watch meaningless preseason exhibition games in which the stars may not play more than a quarter. Funny how Roger Goodell leaves that part out when he talks about making the game better for the fans.

While most fans will laugh at the idea of paying high ticket prices (plus parking charges, plus whatever the team/league may charge for concessions) just to watch a game on television, anyone who does decide to take the plunge will likely be better off than the poor souls who get stuck in The Worst Seats In Cowboys Stadium...

Good luck with that one! 

A.C. Slater Gets Smashed At An Illinois Bar

Who ever would have thought that the gang from Bayside High could ever cause a ruckus in a bar? Then again, who ever thought the gang from Bayside would ever be prominently featured in a bar? (Ignore that Elizabeth "Jessie Spano" Berkley was legally able to drink by the time the show taped its final episode.)

But such was the case last week in a Chicago-area bar when a (presumably drunk) customer flew into a rage after seeing a picture of curly-headed faux jock A.C. Slater on the wall. The owner of Mullets Sports Bar & Grill had to call police after a patron allegedly removed a framed picture of Slater from the wall above a urinal and destroyed it by throwing it on the floor, later telling the owner "I just don't like Slater."

I have so many questions about this. First...you named your sports bar "Mullets"? Although, if you're going to go that route, you probably should have a picture of A.C. Slater. Second, you framed your picture of A.C. Slater?

Finally, you have to wonder what kind of person would have such a visceral reaction to seeing Slater's smiling face in a bar? My guess is it's a grown-up, down on his luck Zack Morris still stinging from the ass-whooping he took back in high school.

Sorry 'bout your luck, Preppy!

BCS Title Game Offers Up More NCAA Hypocrisy

As Auburn and Oregon prepare to play for a BCS Championship and talk of Cam Newton's suspect recruitment and eligibility crank up as one of the game's subplots, the good people of the NCAA continue to spit in the eyes of every college football player and fan.

Here is it, the BCS edition of the Cam Newton jersey for sale at a souvenir stand in Glendale, Arizona before the game for $125 a pop. 

Somewhere A.J. Green is beating his head against a wall.

(H/T to Clay Travis)

Meet the Heatles

It had been almost two weeks since LeBron James said anything to draw people's ire. So just to show that he was starting the new year off right, he has decided to give the Heat the nickname that people have been searching for since all three stars got together in the offseason.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...The Heatles.

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James says the reason for the name is because of the team's ability to sell out arenas everywhere they go. Funny, I've never heard stories about the Beatles having trouble drawing crowds in Liverpool. This actually isn't the first time LeBron has been compared to the legendary rock quartet. SI's Chris Mannix recalls a similar incident in Cleveland.

But just imagine the hoopla when they start putting Heat games on iTunes!

This is what you get for playing your home games in a bouncy house

If you're a fan of Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force, you are familiar with the genius of Carl Brutananadilewski. If you aren't, then enjoy his breakdown of the Mediocres of the Midway versus the Purple Steeple Teeters...

Merry Christmas from Lamar Odom...

Oh Lamar.

First the reality show appearances, then the E! wedding, now this...

In the annals of Christmas cards, has there ever been one as over the top as this one? It's like the lineup of the CW...complete with old people futilely trying to hold on to their youth and a token black person! I can only imagine what the accompanying holiday letter will be like.

(Thanks to The Basketball Jones)