They all stayed home and watched on tv:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2016/02/08/tv-ratings-sunday-feb-7-2016-super-bowl-50/
I think it was the Mayor of Glendale, Arizona last year that complained about the impact to the community that the Super Bowl has which he based on the previous Super Bowl that had been played there sever years prior. I think most wrote it off as trying to get more money from the NFL to cover the impacts.
"Businesses is a little bit down because of all the road closures," she said. "We aren't seeing our usual Sunday crowd."
If that's true, its exactly what happened in Philadelphia when the Pope came last Fall. The city completely overreacted with shutting down roads and restricting traffic so no one came into town and it was a complete disaster for the businesses who expected to have a sales bonanza. Cities go so overboard with "terrorism control" anymore that they turn their streets into a police state whenever a big event happens, and a lot of people simply avoid it than go through the hassle.
rabid fans only mean problems, not profit.
My home town of Ft. Worth experienced the same thing when the first NASCAR race was held.
the die-hard NASCAR fan is something to behold and then banish to Antartica. IMO.
But I have a major problem with a “sport” that evolved from criminal behavior.
But the city will be by to collect their special assessment next week.
Nga Huynh
Whoa! How do you pronounce that name? Inga Hine?
San Francisco (50 miles away from the Super Bowl) shoved all its homeless bums out of the way and sponsored a big ‘street party’ to attract most of the Super Bowl business away from San Jose/Santa Clara. Initially, local people thought this was crazy and couldn’t work (as well as being terribly audacious). But, it worked spectacularly.
People attended the game in SillyCon Valley and then raced an hour up to SF to spend any money they had left over from the exorbitant ballpark prices. Now, SF’s thousands of homeless people (which SF’s hard-left politicos maintain and breed as its sort their counter-cultural pet zoo)...are able to return to their usual begging haunts. SNAFU
It may be that football fans aren’t the type to hang out in cafes sponsoring poetry slams and vegan food only
One of the only Sundays our restaurant closes is for Super Bowl.
Many other restaurants have learned to do the same.
People stay home, get trashed and eat junk food
Or tacos
Lots of empty seats at the game too
I suspect others feel the same way.
I don’t like Levis Stadium (I watched it being built - I’m from Palo Alto and San Jose). To me it’s stupid and reflection of the under-performing, vision-lacking ownership of the SF Forty-Niners. The traffic nightmares this stadium causes were well know ahead of time that they would be a problem. There isn’t much business around there because it is in the middle of an industrial park. Not to mention they’ve taken the Niners out of SF. Stupid.
In SF you have a parking lot across McCovey Cove from maybe the finest baseball park with the best views of any ball park in baseball. They coulda & shoulda built that Niner’s stadium RIGHT THERE. What a cool stadium that would be. That whole area of the City which has gone from ramshackle to high-end rent district, would escalate in value even more. Ingress and egress is a piece of cake with highways, trains, light rails, ferry boats, and foot traffic all relatively terminating in that area.
I’m still holding out that someone with half a brain takes over the Niners and get them back into the City where they belong, right there at McCovey Cove and stone’s throw away from what is called the Tiffany jewel of baseball parks, AT&T Park. May it happen soon.
Levi Stadium can be donated to the Museum of Dumb.
The Sunday Farmer’s Market in Palo Alto didn’t suffer. It was mobbed and all the good pulled pork sandwiches were gone by 11:30. The line was 25 long for the Roto Rolli rotisserie chicken.
Probably good for the AirBNB founders
Profits are still legal in San Francisco?
The SuperBowl Half-time show was a tribute to Black Power, however, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers, who succeeded about as well as the Carolina Panthers. Beyonce’s fake cartridge belt may have contained a few actual cartridges, minus their primers. The large X that the 50 black women in paramilitary uniforms and black berets formed, of course, honored Malcolm X, the racist white-hater. Was the conventional US media silent on this? Then go read the British press!