The price of home field advantage at Arrowhead ahead of playoff game

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Chiefs playoff game against the Texans will take place this Saturday at 3:30 p.m., and while tickets won’t be as affordable as last year’s home playoff game, they won’t break the bank either.

On Monday, Tickets for Less (TFL) cheapest option was around $160, about 30 rows up on the third level of Arrowhead.

“Right now you’re gonna have a better selection of what kind of upper level or lower level or club level seats that you want, and inventory will definitely just kind of dwindle as we get closer,” TFL Senior VP of Ticket Operations Jason Durbin said. “If you’re really wanting to get out there, it’s better just to grab them, and be safe, and get it out of the way.”

Tickets for the Chiefs’ lone playoff game was against the Miami Dolphins. Tickets for that game ended up going for less than $30, but it was also minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (with a wind chill of minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit).

“It was the extremely cold game,” Durbin said.

More than a dozen fans had frostbite from the game, but the game still sold out.

This year KCTV5′s forecast has the temperature at kickoff against the Texans at 26 degrees.

“So far cry from last year’s Miami game, and that has a considerable impact for people’s attendance,” Steve Williams, head captain for Chiefs Red Coaters, said.

Williams and the other 90 season ticket holders he represents are one of the charitable arms of the Chiefs, and they draw their lineage back to the first season ticket holders with the organization.

He was at the last game when the Chiefs hosted the Texans at Arrowhead in the playoffs in 2020. The Chiefs found themselves at a 24-point deficit early on.

“I was frustrated. I got up and just started to walk around the stadium to try to air my grievances out… and we started our comeback, so I returned to my seat and my section told me to get out of there – I’m bad luck,” Williams said with a smile. “I didn’t necessarily take them up on their recommendations and we won that game – 51-31, a major comeback.”

The highest-priced tickets at TFL were suite-level tickets that offer a similar view to what Taylor Swift typically watches the game at, and they go for around $1,540.