Average football fans have little hope of attending the Super Bowl on Sunday in Detroit. The face value of tickets for the cheapest seats at Ford Field is $600, and they're sold out. Thousands of seats are reserved for season-ticket holders from Seattle and Pittsburgh as well as corporate sponsors. Prices for some tickets on the secondary market are approaching $4,600.

But about 450 people have found a way to get around all that, and gain access to the most ballyhooed sporting event of the year. Here's how: They made a donation to a local nonprofit group.

They won't get seats and, in fact, they have to work for the privilege -- hawking programs at the stadium. They also have to promise to show up at 8 a.m. and stay until nearly midnight. But for fans ranging from a real-estate executive to a banker to an assembly-line worker, it's worth it.

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