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Super Bowl ticketholders turned away

Four hundred Super Bowl ticketholders have been turned away before this morning's NFL showpiece after some seats at Cowboys Stadium were deemed to be unsafe.

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About 1,250 fans in total were displaced ahead of the game, with 850 given alternative seats.

The NFL says safety was the reason and promised a review.

Those turned away will be given a refund of triple the face value.

However, even $2,700 for $900 tickets may not be enough for those who paid much more to scalpers, not to mention travel and hotel costs.

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Meanwhile an Aussie who once quit his job and sold his home to follow a gridiron team around America for a year has returned to the US to watch his Green Bay Packers play in the Super Bowl.

Wayne Scullino quit his job as a sales executive in 2007 and sold his home in Sydney to pay for a year of following the Packers.

He has a ticket to today's big game thanks to a fellow Packers fan and says if his team wins he'll fly back to Green Bay in Wisconsin for the victory parade before flying home.


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