NEW YORK, March 10 (UPI) -- The National Football League is investigating the apparently widespread practice among players and coaches of scalping tickets for big bucks.
NFL officials met this week with Minnesota coach Mike Tice who admitted scalping Super Bowl tickets in his six years as a Vikings assistant coach, but denied doing so after he became head coach in 2002, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
Tice also acknowledged that he gave the green light to members of his coaching staff to sell their Super Bowl tickets to a California ticket agency, ESPN.com said.
"The assistant coaches all do it, but this is the first time I've ever heard about a head coach," one player said.
The most lucrative scalping concerns Super Bowl tickets. Players' collective bargaining agreement gives them the right to purchase two Super Bowl tickets, but players, coaches and team officials have to sign a document when buying the tickets that they won't resell them for a profit.
