Christian McCaffrey’s fiancee Olivia Culpo has surprised his mom by buying them a luxury suite at next week’s Super Bowl for her birthday.
McCaffrey is the star running back of the San Francisco 49ers, who will take on Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs in Las Vegas next Sunday.
Lisa McCaffrey had earlier claimed on her podcast that even her NFL star son and Culpo couldn’t afford a suite at this year’s Super Bowl because of the astronomical prices.
Players are believed to be given two free tickets to the Super Bowl and then 13 more are made available for purchase at face value.
As of Friday morning, there were only a handful of suites available for purchase at the game.
The cheapest is $300,000 and only includes four tickets while there is also still one available at $420,000 with eight tickets. But for the suite with 20 tickets, you will have to cough up a staggering $2.5million.
It remains to be seen how much Culpo splashed out but she replied to a post on Instagram that included quotes from Lisa.
In reply, the former Miss Universe wrote: ‘fake news! Happy Birthday Lisa. I bought you a suite’.
McCaffrey is set to earn $11.8million in 2024 and $12m in 2025 as part of the contract he signed with the 49ers when he joined them from the Carolina Panthers in 2022.
Despite that, on her ‘Your Mom’ podcast Lisa McCaffrey claimed the couple had been priced out of a suite.
She said: ‘We looked into a suite and none of us can afford it. Not even Christian, money bags over there — nor money bags Olivia.
‘So, we’re not in a suite, I’ll tell you that right now.’
McCaffrey’s mom is married to former 49ers wide receiver Ed McCaffrey, who won the Super Bowl three times.
If Christian can win it with the 49ers, they will be just the second father and son in NFL history to win a Super Bowl with the same franchise.
McCaffrey and his family would still have had to splash out a fair amount even on regular tickets for the game.
Tickets on at least one secondary-market site were the most expensive in Super Bowl history on Monday.
The average purchase price on TickPick was $9,815 on Monday morning.
That’s nearly double the final average price of $5,795 for last year’s game between the Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles in Glendale, Arizona, although current prices could decline.
It’s also more than the previous high of $7,046 for the 2021 game in Tampa, Florida, between the Buccaneers and the Chiefs. The stadium was at 33 per cent capacity because of Covid-19 restrictions, increasing the demand for each ticket.
TickPick’s highest non-Covid Super Bowl was in 2020 at Miami Gardens, Florida, when the Chiefs and Niners met for the first time in the championship game. That average price was $6,370.
The cheapest ticket on TickPick for this year’s game was $8,188 on Monday, more than the $5,997 low price at this point last year.
StubHub was experiencing similar demand with an average price of tickets sold at $9,300 on Monday, though that trails the Super Bowl two years ago.
The average at the same time was $9,797 for the game in Inglewood, California, when the hometown Los Angeles Rams were preparing to play the Cincinnati Bengals.
The lowest-priced ticket on StubHub for this year’s game was $6,500.
