Speculators who sold seats to the game anywhere

 Speculators who sold seats to the game anywhere

 from $2,500 to $4,000 in advance were suddenly scrambling to fill orders that were spiraling to between $8,000 to $9,000 per ticket. The “melt up” resulted in some speculators booking losses in the

 hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Some declined to fill orders and instead went out of business, losing everything in arguably the biggest Black Swan event in ticket selling history.

While that’s unlikely to happen again in Super Bowl history, it doesn’t mean tickets can’t still see sizable price increases over the course of the week. How this one goes remains to be seen, but brokers will be watching very closely over the next 48 hours to see whether the trend falls off or pushes for record territory.