While 400 fans were denied seats, 850 were relocated to other parts of the Cowboys Stadium due to problems with the temporary seats.
The seats being built for the game were not ready and deemed unsafe. According to officials, the winter storm that hit Dallas delayed work on the temporary seats.
As a consequence, the 400 dejected fans had no option but to watch the game on monitors or standing-room platforms.
Apart from being the “guests of the NFL" at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis next year, the 400 displaced fans have received $2,400, triple the face value of the $800 tickets.
NFL apologizes
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the situation a fiasco on their part. “Any time you put on an event of this magnitude, you have your challenges.”
“We apologize to those fans that were impacted. We are going to work with them and we are going to do better in the future. We will certainly do a thorough review and get to the bottom of why it all occurred, but we take full responsibility for that as putting on this game,” he added.
Compensating for the inconvenience caused, the NFL has promised these fans free tickets for the Super Bowl next year.
Apart from being the “guests of the NFL" at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis next year, the 400 displaced fans have received $2,400, triple the face value of the $800 tickets.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy, stated on his Twitter account, “The 400 fans w/out seats last nite went on field postgame, received free merchandise, food, beverage, $2,400, free SB46 tix.”
Super Bowl fans not convinced
Though the NFL has apologized to the displaced fans and refunded their tickets, many people are still not convinced. In fact, some have even taken to the micro-blogging site, Twitter, to vent their annoyance.
For instance, a Super Bowl fan named JonDelano tweeted, “If you spent $5,000 to fly to Dallas for SuperBowl and tickets voided, three times ticket price does not compensate.”
Likewise another person named 228bound stated, “NFL is terrible for their lack of the preparation to seat the fans who bought tickets but didnt have a seat during the superbowl 2011.”
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The seats being built for the game were not ready and deemed unsafe. According to officials, the winter storm that hit Dallas delayed work on the temporary seats.
As a consequence, the 400 dejected fans had no option but to watch the game on monitors or standing-room platforms.
Apart from being the “guests of the NFL" at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis next year, the 400 displaced fans have received $2,400, triple the face value of the $800 tickets.
NFL apologizes
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the situation a fiasco on their part. “Any time you put on an event of this magnitude, you have your challenges.”
“We apologize to those fans that were impacted. We are going to work with them and we are going to do better in the future. We will certainly do a thorough review and get to the bottom of why it all occurred, but we take full responsibility for that as putting on this game,” he added.
Compensating for the inconvenience caused, the NFL has promised these fans free tickets for the Super Bowl next year.
Apart from being the “guests of the NFL" at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis next year, the 400 displaced fans have received $2,400, triple the face value of the $800 tickets.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy, stated on his Twitter account, “The 400 fans w/out seats last nite went on field postgame, received free merchandise, food, beverage, $2,400, free SB46 tix.”
Super Bowl fans not convinced
Though the NFL has apologized to the displaced fans and refunded their tickets, many people are still not convinced. In fact, some have even taken to the micro-blogging site, Twitter, to vent their annoyance.
For instance, a Super Bowl fan named JonDelano tweeted, “If you spent $5,000 to fly to Dallas for SuperBowl and tickets voided, three times ticket price does not compensate.”
Likewise another person named 228bound stated, “NFL is terrible for their lack of the preparation to seat the fans who bought tickets but didnt have a seat during the superbowl 2011.”
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Prince Kumar
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