FOOTBALL PRICE INDEX

One seat at the Cotton Bowl Classic on New Year’s Day:

$25 (all seats)



Airfare to Super Bowl WIT in San Diego on January 31:

$252 per person based on current excursion fare rates on Braniff Airlines



Single-ticket price for a Cowboys game:

$23 plus tax (all seats)



TCU Horned Frogs pennant (sorry, no funny hats):

$4.95



Standard percentage owed to bookie on a losing bet:

10 percent



Tailgate picnic party supplies:

Twenty-piece, all-white chicken basket: $25 (includes ten rolls); one quart cole slaw: $3.69; one quart cherry or peach cobbler: $5.99. allat Bubba’s; Kool Tunes ice chest, holds eighteen 12-ounce cans and is equipped with two water-resistant speakers for your portable stereo unit: $59.95 at Kool Tunes



Flask:

Hollow plastic flask in the shape of binoculars: $9.99 at Spencer Gifts

Lookalike Coca-Cola (actually they read Caco-Calo) adhesive labels to wrap around beer cans:

99 cents each at Texas Liquors



Stadium Blanket:

$50 for plaid, wool-blend at Hunter Bradlee



Crown Suites:

$30.000 to $125,000 to lease; $300,000 to $1.5 million to purchase at Texas Stadium