Super Bowl ticket? $700. Hotel? $1,100. Rental car, food, souvenirs? Get out the credit card

So, you were one of the lucky ones. You got chosen to buy a Super Bowl ticket.

Congratulations, that'll be $700 (470).

And that's just the beginning. You might also want to start building up that bank account, maybe put the rest of your 2008 vacation plans on hold. This journey to the center of the American sports universe will take its toll in cold, hard cash (and credit cards, too).

The total cost: $5,033 (3,400). That's more than $1,675 (1,130) for each of the three Super Bowls the Patriots have won so far. Or $280 (188) for every game they've won this season.

About 24,000 of the 73,000 tickets at University of Phoenix Stadium were …