Former NFL Wide Receiver Donté Stallworth tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that the reselling of Super Bowl tickets by players and employees has long been an “open secret.” Stallworth believes that imposing fines and threatening player suspensions will significantly curb the practice of selling tickets for profit.
Breakdown
- NFL fines about 100 players and employees for reselling Super Bowl tickets above face value. 4s
- Resale of tickets above face value has been a longstanding but unofficial practice in the league. 22s
- Those penalized will be fined 1.5 times the face value and face a two-year ticket ban unless playing in the Super Bowl. 1m 51s
- The NFL's crackdown follows policy changes first implemented in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement. 2m 31s
- Names of the players and employees involved have not been disclosed. 2m 46s