Fans sue over seat fiasco

Fans caught up in the Super Bowl seating fiasco have filed a lawsuit against the NFL, Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones after being left with no or unacceptable seats for the big game.

A total of 1,250 temporary seats installed in Jones' $1.2 billion stadium could not be used after there were delays in their installation, and that left the NFL with a massive headache just before the big kick-off.

Of those affected, 850 fans were relocated to other seats, while the remaining 400 had to watch on screens from standing locations around the stadium.

The NFL has now offered two options to the 400 fans without seats of either $2,400 in cash, three times the face value of the tickets, and a ticket to next year's Super Bowl, or an all-expenses paid trip to any future Super Bowl of their choice.

However, that it not being seen as enough of an effort in terms of compensation for fans who missed Green Bay's 31-25 victory over Pittsburgh despite having a ticket in their hands and making their way to North Texas.

Also in the lawsuit, which was filed in Dallas on Tuesday, a Dallas Cowboys fan is complaining that he paid $100,000 for a seat licence and the right to buy a Super Bowl ticket, but ended up in a seat he deemed 'unacceptable'.

Dallas fans who bought the $100,000 licences brought in $100 million in revenue, but some of those fans were placed in temporary seating under overhangs which prevented them from seeing the world's biggest video board installed in the stadium.

One plaintiff in the federal lawsuit, which covers about 1000 people and is seeking $5 million in damages, is Steelers fan Steve Simms, while the other is Dallas fan Mike Dolabi who shelled out $100,000 for the seat licence.

More on the story at Sky Sports Click Here