Sources: Around 100 NFLers face SB-tix penalty

At slightest 100 players from astir fractional the NFL's 32 teams look fines and imaginable suspension for allegedly selling their allotted tickets to this year's Super Bowl LIX supra look worth successful usurpation of league policies, aggregate sources told ESPN.

Under an statement betwixt the league and the NFL Players Association, players who violated the regularisation volition beryllium fined 1½ times the look summons worth and suffer their allotted tickets to the adjacent 2 Super Bowls. If they are playing successful the game, the players volition person the accidental to acquisition seats.

Those who diminution the punishment could beryllium suspended by commissioner Roger Goodell, league and national sources with nonstop cognition of the concern said.

The sources said the fig of players progressive was "in excess of 100," immoderate of whom person already accepted the fines to debar missing games. A league root declined to place the players and employees who had sold their Super Bowl tickets oregon their clubs.

According to an NFL memo sent to each 32 teams and obtained by ESPN, an probe revealed that squad employees and players sold tickets to a "small fig of 'bundlers' who were moving with a summons reseller."

According to media reports earlier the February crippled successful New Orleans betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, summons prices connected secondary sites ranged from $2,588 to astir $3,500 for the cheapest seats, with immoderate tickets fetching implicit $10,000.

Players and employees who worked straight with the bundlers oregon "otherwise had a greater relation ... volition look accrued penalties," the memo said.

"Our archetypal probe has determined that a fig of NFL players and coaches, employed by respective NFL Clubs, sold Super Bowl tickets for much than the ticket's look worth successful usurpation of the policy," work the memo from NFL main compliance serviceman Sabrina Perel to the teams.

"This long-standing League Policy, which is specifically incorporated into the Collective Bargaining Agreement, prohibits League oregon Club employees, including players, from selling NFL crippled tickets acquired from their leader for much than the ticket's look worth oregon for an magnitude greater than the worker primitively paid for the ticket, whichever is less."

Perel added that the league volition heighten mandatory grooming earlier Super Bowl LX for each league unit to stress the rules and "the broader rule that nary 1 should nett personally from their NFL affiliation astatine the disbursal of our fans."