We did the math. You take the trip.
Every one of the 42 Nashville Predators road games still to play, priced from Omaha: the flight or the drive, plus the hotel. Same team, same season, and the cheapest weekend costs a fraction of the most expensive one. We priced every game on the NFL and the NHL from where you live, and the NBA from Columbus and Omaha so far, so you can see which weekends are worth it before you book anything.
One line per game, cheapest on the left, most expensive on the right. Bright green marks the 295 Greenlights still to play — games where the trip costs at least 15% less than a trip to that city usually does.
Every road game is priced both ways: the cheapest real airfare, and the drive at pump prices. The cheaper of the two is what we rank the game on. We only suggest driving when it is under six hours each way, because past that it stops being a weekend.
Booking sites will never tell you this. They sell flights and hotel rooms, so just drive is not an answer they are built to give.
Who this is for
Most sports-travel advice assumes you live down the road from the stadium and the only question is whether to renew your seats. That isn't you. You're in Omaha and your team is in Chicago. Or you left Winnipeg and the Jets stayed.
You already do this math. A ticket, then a flight, then two nights in a hotel, then whether driving would be smarter — game by game, in your head or in a spreadsheet nobody else will ever see. It is tedious enough that most people get halfway, decide it's a lot, and watch from the couch.
That's the whole reason this exists: the math is worth doing, and doing it by hand is why people stop. When someone does finish it, the answer is often a surprise — a road game in a cheap city costs less than seeing the same team at home.
Here's that, priced from Omaha, for someone who follows the Jets.
How it works
Omaha, Columbus, Kansas City or Nashville, for now. Every flight is priced from your own airport, not a national average, because that is what decides whether a trip is worth it.
Any of the 94 teams across the NFL, the NHL and the NBA, and how many people are coming. Two to a hotel room, five to a car, one seat each, so the cost grows the way a real trip does.
Real airfares, real published hotel rates, and the drive compared against the flight whenever it is under six hours each way. Every game on the schedule, cheapest trip first.
The one thing we can't see: ticket prices. They aren't published anywhere we can read, so you set that number yourself. It is added to every game, and it sets the starting point — but travel is what separates a cheap weekend from an expensive one.
The trick most fans never get to: two games, one trip. If you're already flying somewhere and paying for a hotel, a second game in the same city costs you a ticket and maybe one more night. The flight is already paid for. We found 3,414 pairs of games close enough together to see both, across the NFL, the NHL and the NBA. They're on your board under Two games, one trip.
Not in Omaha, Columbus, Kansas City or Nashville?
Four cities so far, Omaha, Columbus, Kansas City and Nashville — try the board, it's real. Adding a city means buying live airfares for every game from there, so we do it one city at a time, in the order fans ask. Yours could be next.
We'll only mail you when your city is priced.