NFL Offers Third Option to Fans Booted From Seats at Super Bowl

The NFL has reached out yet again to the 400 or so fans displaced at the Super Bowl because a section of temporary seats at Cowboys Stadium was not completed.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell emailed those fans Tuesday with a third option, offering them $5,000 per ticket or the total of their verified expenses from Super Bowl XLV, whichever is greater.

Previously, Goodell and the league had presented the fans -- who were not allowed into their seats at Cowboys Stadium, but rather herded into a club section below field level to watch the game on television screen -- with a pair of options: the first offered $2,400 per ticket (three times face value) plus a ticket to next year's Super Bowl; the second included one ticket to any future Super Bowl, including round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations.

"We are ultimately responsible for the fan experience and we want it to be the best it can possibly be," Goodell said in a statement released by the league last week.

The NFL has continued to attempt to appease the disgruntled fans, some of whom were visibly upset in the hours prior to Super Bowl XLV, as league staff shuffled them to their in-game seating area. The league's efforts, though, have not stopped several members of the group from pushing ahead with a potential lawsuit against the NFL -- details can be found on sbsuit.com, which was created while the approximately 400 fans waited in a holding room before ultimately being denied access to their seats on Super Bowl Sunday.