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The NFL is cracking down connected the resale of Super Bowl tickets by players, coaches and nine employees.
The league plans to good much than 100 players and astir 2 twelve nine employees who were recovered to beryllium successful usurpation of the NFL's Ticket Resale argumentation successful transportation with Super Bowl 59 tickets, according to an interior memo from the league's main compliance officer, Sabrina Perel, that was viewed by CNBC.
An probe recovered that those players and unit were selling these tickets to resale "bundlers" astatine a profit, according to the memo.
Players volition beryllium fined 1.5-times the look worth of the tickets they sold, and employees volition beryllium fined doubly the look value, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the substance who declined to beryllium named speaking astir nonpublic details.
Non-player personnel found successful usurpation of the argumentation volition besides suffer the quality to acquisition aboriginal NFL tickets, according to the memo.
The league prohibits employees and players from selling NFL crippled tickets acquired from their leader for much than the ticket's look worth oregon much than the worker primitively paid — whichever is less.
The league is besides taking steps to heighten compliance grooming up of Super Bowl 60 and said it volition summation penalties for aboriginal offenses.
"No 1 should nett personally from their NFL affiliation astatine the disbursal of our fans," Perel wrote successful the memo.