The 400 Super Bowl ticket holders who lost their seats at Cowboys Stadium because a temporary seating structure wasn’t approved by a fire marshal will be guests at next year’s Super Bowl, the NFL announced on Monday. Displaced fans will also receive $2,400, triple the face value of the $800 tickets that went to waste.
The move was the league’s initial attempt at damage control from the embarrassing incident, which they admitted to knowing about early last week. It’s a fine effort but makes the mistake of presuming that more tickets and money can replace the experience of watching your favorite team in the Super Bowl.
“It’s not the money. It’s the whole issue. We came here for the memories and it’s not happening,” said Wayne Rusch, a Green Bay Packers fan told CNN on Sunday.
