NFL Draft 2015: How to get tickets

Looking for tickets for this weekend’s NFL Draft in Chicago? We have the 4-1-1 on how to get them.

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It might be a little late if you’re living in Hawaii, or Florida or even the New England area to make the decision to just up and go to this year’s NFL Draft event in Chicago–the first time the league’s annual selection meeting has not been held in Manhattan, New York since 1967.

But if you happen to be in or near Chicago–let’s say within a five- or six-hour drive–then this information could be vitally useful to you.

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Or if you feel like taking the unwise counsel provided by every hopeless romantic in every romantic comedy in at least the past 20 years, and want to fire off to your local airport, and book a last minute airfare to Chicago just to be with the one you are so madly in love with…the NFL Draft, and/or your favorite NFL team, well then this could also be helpful (though you probably need help in other ways).

Whatever your deal is, the draft is upon us, beginning Thursday night in Chicago. It will be housed inside Auditorium Theatre on the Roosevelt University campus. That is almost literally across the street from Lake Michigan and Grant Park, and mere blocks from Chicago’s hallowed Soldier Field.

Thursday’s first-round begins at 7 PM CT (8 PM ET), and as always can be seen either on ESPN or NFL Network. Friday night’s second and third round starts an hour earlier (6 PM local time), while Saturday’s all-day affair starts at 11 AM local time.

Grant Park will hold an open free festival in concert (no pun intended) with the draft down the street. Known as “Draft Town”, fans can enjoy food, music, games, you know all the same things any other festival offers.

While technically no tickets for the event are available directly from the NFL–as they were all given away in a lottery-system weeks ago–it is still wise to check out the NFL Draft Town page to see all information about the draft weekend events.

If tickets are still your aim, you may be in luck. Though no tickets remain through Stubhub or TicketCity, the two main ticket resale websites (it appears the sites never made them available), there will surely be scalpers–though no one here at FanSided is suggesting that option.

On second thought. it may be best to either stay home to watch the draft on television, try to get tickets to your local team’s draft party or simply follow our draft coverage here at FanSided on Thursday evening.

And stay away from that airport all you hopeless romantics!

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