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The sheer volume of injuries that the San Francisco 49ers are dealing with appears to have impacted how many Niners fans will head to SoFi Stadium for Thursday night’s matchup with the Rams.
As the 49ers prepare to take on the Rams without quarterback Brock Purdy and a wave of stars, ticket prices to get into Thursday night’s game in Inglewood have started to fall precipitously. Ticketing website TickPick has a price-tracking element set up on its platform, allowing fans to see how the price for an event has changed over time.
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The minimum ticket price for Thursday’s game on TickPick peaked 10 days ago at $199 and sat at $188 for several consecutive days, up until Monday. After injury reports came out from the 49ers after their Sunday loss to the Jaguars, the price has fallen by 30% in three days, with the minimum ticket now sitting at $130. It’s an even bigger drop for the average ticket price, which now sits at $345 after being as high as $564 nine days ago — a 38% drop.
Typically, 49ers fans have swarmed to SoFi Stadium and turned Rams home games into a sea of red and gold. Earlier this week, ticketing platform Vivid Seats told 49ers reporters that San Francisco fans were estimated to make up 61% of fans in the stands for Thursday’s game. So if there’s a sell-off on secondary ticketing marketplaces happening, it stands to reason a good chunk of that is coming from Niner fans.
That was on Tuesday, one day before the 49ers officially ruled out Purdy as well as wide receivers Ricky Pearsall and Jauan Jennings for the big showdown. (San Francisco was already going to be without receiver Brandon Aiyuk, tight end George Kittle and defensive end Nick Bosa.) Since then, the betting odds have shifted to make the 49ers a significant underdog and, as you would expect when superstars aren’t playing, prices to attend the game have fallen.
No matter how many fans are in the stands from each team — or how much noise those fans may or may not be making — the 49ers will take on the Rams on Thursday night at 5:15 p.m., with the game televised on Amazon Prime Video nationally and on KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Alex Simon is the sports editor for SFGATE. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Alex has been in journalism for years as an editor, reporter and adjunct professor, most recently working at Bay Area News Group. He has degrees from Elon University and Arizona State University. When not at a sporting event, Alex enjoys playing sports and finding a good dive bar, and he loves In-N-Out Burger a bit too much for his own good.
