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Lions tickets are going to be expensive in 2024, but that will provide one on field advantage for the team

Originally posted on A to Z Sports | By Mike Payton | Last updated 5/23/24

The price of being a good team is one that the fans sadly have to pay time and time again. Detroit Lions fans are dealing with that these days have ticket prices have sky rocketed since the team has started to get good and popular.

That's not going to be a benefit for the pocket books of fans, but it does provide one potential on field benefit for the team in terms of a competitive edge. As Pride of Detroit's Morgan Cannon suggests, those prices are likely to keep out of town fans out of Ford Field in 2024.

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2024 road games, per cheapest ticket (based on two, on Ticketmaster, before fees):

Lions $255 (!)
Cowboys $127
Chiefs $126
Giants $66
Saints $49
Falcons $43
Chargers $37
Panthers $29
— Greg Auman (@gregauman) May 22, 2024

Yeah, that's a lot. Couple that with plane tickets, hotel costs and food costs and you have one very expensive trip to Detroit for a game. The kind of prices that make you say "nevermind, we'll just go to Cleveland."

That means fewer out of town fans coming to Detroit and more Lions fans filling up the building and we saw what Lions fans can do in a full building in January against the Rams. They can make it incredibly loud and a hard place to play.

On the Lions fans traveling front, you can see that tickets are a lot cheaper elsewhere. Lions fans traveled really well in 2023 and they'll probably do it again in 2024. The goal should be to make every stadium in the league just an extension of Ford Field.

This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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