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If you want to see Vikings' first official game at new stadium, pay up

Frank Schwab
NFL writer

The first regular-season game at the Minnesota Vikings’ new U.S. Bank Stadium is a tough ticket.

The Vikings opened their impressive new stadium last week, but that was just a preseason game. The first official game? That’s an event. The Green Bay Packers are coming to town on Sept. 18. It’s “Sunday Night Football” on NBC. There have been many incredible sporting events in Minnesota history, but this is somewhere on that list of big games.

“You can’t buy a ticket to the Green Bay game to save your soul,” Sue Arcand of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, which owns and operates the stadium, told the USA Today Network in Wisconsin.

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That’s a little bit of an overstatement. You can spend about $250 to get in, and you can keep your soul. But that doesn’t mean it’s cheap.

According to Stub Hub on Wednesday, Vikings-Packers tickets were mostly between $250-300 to sit in the upper corner of the upper deck. That will work if your goal is to get in the door. If you want to have seats where you can tell the difference between Aaron Rodgers and Shaun Hill, it gets pretty hefty.

The cheapest tickets in the lower bowl, from goal line to goal line, were about $650 each. Between the 20s, you’re not doing better than $750 each and if you want to get really crazy there are midfield seats available at more than $2,000 each.

Heck, for that you can buy a pretty nice television for you living room and watch it on the couch. And you can watch the rest of the Vikings season on that TV too.

But this game is a big deal, after so many years in the decrepit Metrodome and a couple seasons borrowing the University of Minnesota’s stadium. Home game No. 2 will be cheaper though.

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Frank Schwab is the editor of Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at shutdown.corner@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!