[Quesadilla Joe]

Broncos games a hot ticket in the secondary market

If you don’t already have your tickets to see Peyton Manning and the Broncos in person, be ready to open up your wallet in order to get inside the stadium.

Tickets to Broncos games, both here in Denver and on the road — being sold on the secondary market are currently the third-most expensive in the NFL, according to TiqIQ, an aggregator of online ticket sites. Tickets average $322.52, and are more expensive than all but tickets to Patriots and Bears games.

That average price is a 50 percent increase from the end of last year, when tickets averaged $214.64, said Chris Matcovich, TiqIQ’s senior director of data and communications.

Matcovich said the Broncos’ games against Pittsburgh ($560.06) and at New England ($474.61) are the two priciest tickets on the market right now.

I just did a quick check on StubHub.com and the cheapest ticket available for the season opener against the Steelers is $225.00 for a seat in section 539.