New Patriots Scratch Ticket Offers Game Trips to Miami, Autographed Footballs

By Robert Gates

There’s a new $5 New England Patriots scratch ticket available just as the Pats are about to open the 2014-15 season.

The new ticket goes on sale for the first time on Tuesday at the Massachusetts Lottery’s 7,400 licensed retailers across the state. It is the newest of four Patriots scratch ticket that the state Lottery and the New England Patriots have released since 2009.

Massachusetts was the first state in the country to use a NFL logo on a lottery ticket, according to the Massachusetts Lottery.

The tickets offer instant cash prizes and second chance prizes totaling over $46.2 million, including seven top prizes of $250,000 and 2,812,068 prizes ranging from $5 to $4,000.

Non-winning tickets are eligible for “exclusive experiential prizes” as part of the five different second-chance drawings, including away game trips for two to Miami for 10 years, home game ticket packages, player autographed footballs and “Chalk Talk” experiences with a member of the Patriots’ coaching staff.

A total of 12.1 million of the new Patriots tickets will be printed and sales from the new $5 ticket are expected to reach $60.5 million.

Lottery profits are the largest source of unrestricted local aid for the 351 cities and towns across the Commonwealth and the newest game is expected to make another $9.5 million available to return to municipalities.