"CBS Saturday Morning" travels with Arizona Cardinals season-ticket holders who were offered the opportunity to take the team plane to a game.

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The Arizona Cardinals introduced a new fan experience, allowing 288 fans and former players to travel on the team's Boeing 777 to Dallas for a Monday Night Football game. The package, available to season ticket holders for $2,500 to $6,000 per person, included luxury in-flight amenities, team buses, hotel stays, and premium game seats, mirroring the travel experience of NFL players.

This initiative, created by owner Michael Bidwell, quickly sold out and was praised by participants and former players alike. The program is seen as a potential model for other teams, aiming to provide fans with unique, curated experiences and deepen engagement with the franchise.

Arizona Cardinals fans get opportunity to travel on team plane

The NFL regular season is down to two weeks and many teams playoff dreams are on the line. The Pittsburgh Steelers can clinch the AFC North with a win over the Cleveland Browns and the upstart Carolina Panthers face the NFC's top team, that is of course the Seattle Seahawks. You can catch those games tomorrow right here on CBS. For the Arizona Cardinals though, it's been kind of a rocky season. But despite their record, the team is testing out a new in-air experience where fans can travel like pros if they've got the cash. Chris Van Cleve reports from the Cardinals team plane. Jennifer McNamara, her brother Doug and daughter Molly are about to take off on a one-of-a-kind football adventure, traveling like their favorite team. They are among 288 Arizona Cardinal fans and former players flying on one of the team's planes, a decked-out Boeing 777, heading for a rivalry weekend and the Monday night football game in Dallas. My dad has had Cardinals tickets since 88. So we've been season tickets, our family, for all of these years. So when they, there was no chance. I mean, I had the Cardinals plane, come on! It's so cool! The plane was crazy and then they just kept bringing us stuff. They brought us hot towels and mimosas and food and I was like, whoa, we're fancy here. Fancy, indeed. The trip was offered to season ticket holders who paid between $2,500 and $6,000 a person to ride on the team plane. Has it been kind of like a flying tailgate? Oh yeah, everyone's stoked. Be met on the tarmac by team buses, spend two nights in team hotels, have a Sunday fun day in Dallas, then enjoy great seats at the game against the Cowboys before being taken straight back to the airport for the flight home. This is what life is like if you play in the NFL, luxury seating, your own 777 waiting for you after the game. This is an opportunity of a lifetime. Former Cardinals great Patrick Peterson was on the flight. I think it's very, very important for the fans to have an insight and have an opportunity to see how we travel and so what a great opportunity for the fans, not only to have this trip, but to have an opportunity to share stories, memories with some of the Cardinals greats. This first in the NFL experience was the brainchild of Cardinals team owner Michael Bidwell. It is bringing a little bit of a home field advantage. Bidwell happens to own four 777s that fly charters, two exclusively for the Cardinals during the season, allowing for this unique travel like the team experience that quickly sold out. And we thought this could be really cool to be able to create a new business line that is really focused on the fans and their ability to access games on the road and travel like the pros do travel in style and have just this really unique curated experience. I would think that very soon other teams are going to copy what the Cardinals have done. Bidwell may be onto something says Ken Belson, who wrote the book every day is Sunday about the business history of the NFL. Fans are looking for experiences, particularly younger fans. They want it to be extra special. And this is a differentiator to be able to fly on a team plane for the McNamara's. It was quite the experience. How do you rate the trip? 11 out of 10. It was unmatched. It was amazing.

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