You bleed green.

The Eagles are your team.

You have a pair of season tickets and now you want to watch them play in person at the Super Bowl.

Can you just get up and go? The answer is no.

To fly to Arizona where the game will be played this Sunday, you have to be lucky and win a random lottery for the right to purchase tickets to the biggest football game of the year. The NFL distributes 35% of available Super Bowl tickets to the Eagles and to their opponent, the Kansas City Chiefs, with each getting 17.5%. Many of those available tickets will go to players’ and coaching staffs’ families.

So let’s say season ticket holders, Tony Radocha, head baseball coach at Marian and his sister, Stephanie Boby, who grew up in Coaldale win the lottery and they have to decide if they’re going to the game.

What’s it going to cost them? Lottery tickets to the game cost about $1,000 each to sit in the nosebleed section of State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

“We didn’t win the lottery,” said Tony. “That might be a good thing because it will save me a lot of money.”

“I’d go,” said Stephanie, who admits she has bled green ever since the season tickets were bought by their mother, a Philadelphia cheerleader back in the 1970s. “We’d have to come up with the money from somewhere.”

And that would be a boatload of cash. The price for round trip airline tickets from Philadelphia to Arizona average $566 a seat. Hotel accommodations near the stadium cost five times higher than a normal February rate. To stay at a Motel 6, Tony and his sister would have to pay $850 a night. Double that for separate rooms. A three-night stay at the Holiday Inn Express would set them back more than $5,600 and that’s to share a room.

To buy food and drink at the game isn’t going to be all that cheap either. They could get a hot dog and a small bag of chips for 10 bucks.

Want a burger? Fork over 16 bucks each.

A 24-oz. can of Bud Light will run them $17.50 apiece.

How about a commemorative T-shirt? They go for $35-$40 each.

Philly fanatics

Tony and Stephanie have been going to Eagles’ games since the team played at Veterans Stadium. The price for season tickets to attend all home games runs from eight to 10 grand a year after licensing fees. Tony, who went to Lincoln Field to watch the Eagles two playoff victories, is a New England Patriots’ fan. Stephanie, who became a Philly fan when she waitressed at the Viennese Villa in Coaldale, lights up her green for about five home games a year.

“I went to their championship game against the 49ers,” she said. “The atmosphere was electric. Nobody sat down for the whole game.”

She remembers taking Brayden, her 11-year-old son, to Lincoln Field this year to see the Eagles beat the Steelers. “We got there late and when we walked in, AJ Brown of the Eagles was catching a touchdown pass. I was thrilled, but not my son. He’s a Steelers’ fan and of course, the Eagles won the game.”

Another person of the Green Fan Team is John “Pilsey” Petrilyak, assistant baseball coach for Marian, who lives in Treskow. He has had season tickets for 30 years. He and his wife Regina have gone to two Eagles’ Super Bowls including their win in 2018.

Petrilyal also lost out on the lottery this year, but if he had won, he would have figured out how to pay to see the game in Arizona.

“We went out there this year to see them play the Cardinals,” he said, “Our Super Bowl trip in 2018 cost us about $10,000. You can find some deals, but you really have to work at it.”

That same season, they went to Minnesota to see the Eagles beat the Vikings in the NFC Championship Game.

“When I didn’t win the lottery, I was at first disappointed,” he said, but then I thought of how much money I would save.”

And he would have saved a bundle along with Tony and Stephanie. If the stream of Green runs through their veins and pushes them far enough, they would buy secondary market tickets which are selling on average for $7,320 per ticket.

Sticker shock

The estimated cost of two tickets, airfare, hotel for one room and three nights, game food and souvenirs, including a rental car at $ 700 a week tops out at $19,177 to watch the game in person.

“I’m fine with watching the game from a couch with my friends,” said Tony Radocha. “It will spare me some of the verbal jousting I do with my family, especially my sister.”

And his sister, Stephanie Boby will watch the game from Chickie and Pete’s sports bar in Drexel Hill. “If we win, I’ll take Braydon and my other son, Ashton to the victory parade. If we lose, it will hurt all the way until next year.”

Pilsey Petrilyak, who normally arrives seven hours early to set up his tailgating at Lincoln Field, will watch the game with a group of people at his friend’s house. “I’ll be rooting for the Eagles to win, not only for me, but for my father who passed away 10 years ago.”

Whatever the outcome of this Super Bowl will be, one thing will be remembered for quite some time and that is the money saved by not going to the game. The ticket lottery would have been great if they would have won, but it’s also wonderful since they have lost.