Season Ticket Holders Brace for Super Bowl Lottery Letter

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CHARLOTTE, NC — Panthers season ticket holders have been waiting by their mailboxes all week to find out if they are one of the lucky ones eligible to buy Super Bowl tickets at a lower price.

Ticket office workers say they sent letters to PSL owners last weekend. Starting Thursday, they will have to go to the ticket office at Bank of America Stadium to claim their tickets in person.

Tim Mayes has been a PSL owner since the Panthers were founded in 1995. His son, Luke, and brother-in-law Jeff Harris have been there with him.

“This just doesn’t happen, and it will never happen quite this way again!” said Mayes.

They’re three of approximately 62,000 season ticket holders.

The Panthers only have 10,000 tickets to give out.

The longer you’ve been a PSL owner, the better chance you have of winning the lottery.

“Hopefully, we go back to five, ten Super Bowls, but you never know,” said Luke Mayes. “It’s a once in a lifetime.”

Lottery winners can buy tickets starting at $850 dollars. That’s compared to those now sold for upwards of $4,000 apiece.

“It’s sitting in pins and needles waiting to get that letter,” said Jeff Harris.

The Panthers ticket office says if you don’t get a letter by Thursday, you’re out of luck.

A risk Luke and Harris aren’t going to take.

“We gotta go either way,” said Harris.

They already bought their tickets.

While Mayes says he’s not sweating the lottery, he can’t deny he’s checking his mailbox like 62,000 others to see where he’ll watch his team.

“It’ll either be in the stadium in Santa Clara, or probably the comforts of my own home,” laughed Mayes.