Super Wild Card Weekend’s slate of games has several great storylines to begin the playoffs. However, it’s difficult to argue that Rams QB Matthew Stafford‘s return to Detroit isn’t the best and the get-in prices fully support that.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Lions’ first home playoff game in 30 years is by far the most expensive ticket of the weekend.
Standing room-only tickets are currently set at $394 while physical seats are going for $510. It’s over $250 more expensive than the second-highest ticket price of the weekend, which is a physical seat for the Packers-Cowboys game ($139).
However, everyone seems to be in agreeance as the oddsmakers have given the Rams-Lions game a 51.5 point over/under, which is the highest of all the wild-card games.
Both teams boast one of the top offenses in the league. Los Angeles is averaging the seventh most total yards per game (359.3) while Detroit is averaging the third most (394.8).
Many are viewing the matchup as a revenge game for Stafford. But it’s more of a revenge game for Lions QB Jared Goff.
Goff was the player traded by the Rams so they could acquire Stafford from Detroit. So, it’s Goff who will be the player looking to prove his former team wrong for giving up on him.
“He is coming in with a little chip on his shoulder, you best believe, because he’s looking across and saying, ‘You got rid of me for him and won a Super Bowl, so y’all think I can’t play anymore,'” former WR Keyshawn Johnson said on “Undisputed.” “It’s going to be rocking to a whole other level.”
Whichever way you choose to look at it, both players and their teams are going to bring their A-games on “Sunday Night Football.”