What few tickets are available the Broncos are doing what they can to secure them for their own fans. The practice has been used since 2011 home playoff game.
DENVER — New England Patriots fans looking for tickets to the AFC Championship Game in Denver on Sunday will have to scour the secondary market.
According to several accounts on social media, visiting fans attempting to purchase tickets via Ticketmaster were issued the following response:
“Due to limited availability, tickets will be sold only to those with a billing address in the Rocky Mountain region, including Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota and Western Kansas.”
This is not new, as the team and Ticketmaster have regularly put geofencing restrictions on ticket sales for postseason games since the Broncos’ 2011 AFC Wild Card Game. This was the case the previous two times the Broncos hosted the Patriots in the 2013 and 2015 postseason with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. (Geofencing: Tracking a user transaction by their IP address or billing zip code.)
“As we’ve done for previous AFC Championship Games, the extremely limited amount of single-game tickets on sale for Sunday was restricted to the Rocky Mountain Region to prioritize Broncos fans,” said Broncos’ spokesman Patrick Smyth. “With more than 98 percent of Broncos’ season-ticker members opting in for playoff tickets, the remaining inventory—consisting of only a few thousand tickets—was nearly sold out within 24 hours.”
In other words, there’s very few seats available even to those with Rocky Mountain zip codes.
