Want to go to the NFC Championship game? Here’s how much tickets will cost you

Want to go to Sunday’s NFC Championship in person to watch the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams?

It’s going to cost you.

As of 10 a.m. Monday morning, the get-in ticket price was over $500, with some tickets being sold on Ticketmaster for hundreds more. The good news for fans was there were plenty of tickets available in almost every section in the stadium.

The jump in prices is a hefty increase from the Rams’ first home playoff game, which they hosted on wild card weekend. Some tickets in the lower bowl were going for about $200 for the tilt with the Arizona Cardinals.

With many original tickets still for sale, the secondary market has lagged, with StubHub showing tickets available for about the same price as Ticketmaster.

If you have a taste for the good life at the 50-yard line, it costs about $4,500 per ticket to sit in the VIP sections down low. That price could drop if there are no takers and you’re shopping for a relative bargain.

A Ticketmaster price study two years ago found the 49ers had the highest average playoff ticket price in the league for the divisional round at $506 a ticket. That was about double the Kansas City Chiefs’ average of $252 a ticket.

For the NFC title game with the Green Bay Packers in 2020, the get-in price was $380 initially and dropped throughout the week.

When the 49ers played the Rams in the regular-season finale Jan. 9, the stadium was packed with a sea of red 49ers jerseys. Because of a huge 49ers fanbase in Los Angeles, the Rams, who sell tickets through Ticketmaster, initially limited the sale of tickets to only Los Angeles residents. The restriction upset would-be ticket-buyers so much that the restriction was dropped Monday morning.

This story was originally published January 25, 2022 at 5:00 AM with the headline "Want to go to the NFC Championship game? Here’s how much tickets will cost you."