Big Games Means Big Bucks 💸
Remember, the couch is still free to watch the game from Saturday night…
The NFL playoff picture has never quite looked like this before in the NFC. The Detroit Lions are 15-2 and the No. 1 seed for the first time in history, and the Washington Commanders have had their best season since 1991 thanks to rookie sensation Jayden Daniels.
You might expect that to lead to a hot ticket for Saturday night’s divisional-round playoff game in Detroit, but it’s actually the priciest of all NFL games in history when you exclude the Super Bowl.
According to the latest NFL news about ticket prices from TickPick, the average ticket price is $991. The cheapest you can get for an actual seat is $597.
🚨BREAKING: The #Lions – #Commanders is the MOST EXPENSIVE #NFL GAME IN HISTORY, excluding the Super Bowl, the average get in price is $991 on @TICKPICK.
🤯🤯🤯
The cheapest get-in price $597 for an actual seat.
DETROIT WILL ELECTRIC FOR THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN. pic.twitter.com/ut1TNFhsIw
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) January 14, 2025
So, if you wanted to see these franchises on the verge of glory, you’re going to have to cough up some big money to see it live.
Commanders vs Lions ticket prices 😬 pic.twitter.com/AY1DyVozrs
— brandon (@JayDanielsMVP) January 13, 2025
Will the Game Match the Hype?
The NFL Divisional Playoff betting odds see the Lions as a 9.5-point home favorite, but that won’t stop fans from both teams being extra excited about this matchup. It has a chance to live up to the hype when you consider how good the Commanders have been on fourth down this season, and how they could lean on that aggression to go toe to toe with Dan Campbell’s team at their own game.
In fact, the 2024 Lions and Commanders are the only two teams in NFL history to have three games in a season where they never punted or turned the ball over on a fumble or interception.
The Commanders just did this last week in Tampa Bay, only the third time it’s been done in a postseason game.
Jayden Daniels’ stats in his playoff debut were incredible as he became the first rookie quarterback since Sammy Baugh in 1937 to throw for over 200 yards and multiple touchdown passes in a road playoff win. Daniels also tied the NFL record with his fifth fourth-quarter comeback win as a rookie, joining Ben Roethlisberger (2004 Steelers) and Dak Prescott (2016 Cowboys).
Jayden Daniels on 10+ yard throws in the Wild Card:
🎯 9/10
🎯 159 yards
🎯 2 TDs
🎯 158.3 perfect passer rating pic.twitter.com/d8FAplHwaf— PFF (@PFF) January 15, 2025
The Commanders have scored at least 18 points in all 18 games this season, making them just the 12th team to do that. They can become the third team ever to do it in 19 straight games in a single season.
They’ll have to most likely, because the Lions have averaged a league-high 33.2 points per game, and their plus-222 scoring differential is the 11th-best in the NFL since 1970.
But that doesn’t mean the Lions are always blowing teams out, and the Commanders aren’t the Titans or Jaguars. Washington hasn’t lost a game by more than one possession since Week 1 in Tampa (37-20), and we saw them fix that in last week’s rematch.
This is your reminder to not take this current Detroit Lions team for granted 🥹#OnePride pic.twitter.com/17hpoBjI60
— 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔦𝔱 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 📰 (@the_det_times) January 13, 2025
In fact, Washington was the only road winner in the Wild Card round, the only team to win their rematch, and the only road team to score more than 14 points as the home teams dominated.
This is the biggest game between these franchises since the 1991 NFC Championship Game, which Washington won 41-10 on its way to winning the Super Bowl. Let’s hope for something more exciting than that, and it should be when you get Daniels trying to match scores with Jared Goff.
Remember, the couch is still free to watch the game from Saturday night.
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