Posted on 02/05/2026 2:16:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
The zone will be activated from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday
With tens of thousand of football fans descending on Santa Clara for Super Bowl LX on Sunday, city leaders have set aside two free speech zones near Levi’s Stadium for those who want to exercise their First Amendment rights around the game.
Here’s what you need to know:
Where are the free speech zones?
The zone to the west of Levi’s Stadium will be at the intersection of Great America Parkway and Patrick Henry Drive and the zone to the east will be at Tasman Drive and Lick Mill Boulevard. They will be activated on Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Why did the city create the free speech zones?
A Santa Clara spokesperson said in an email that the Super Bowl “requires extensive security coordination, crowd management and the protection of emergency access routes.”
“Members of the public are entitled to exercise their First Amendment free speech rights in traditional public forums such as sidewalks,” the spokesperson said. “At the same time, the Constitution allows reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on speech to further substantial governmental interests.”
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Well, it took 250 years, but we are now allowed Free Speech ... because the NFL said so.
Idea (pass it on):
Find an evening church service instead of the SB.
“the Constitution allows reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on speech to further substantial governmental interests.”
I’ll need Section and Clause for this?
The government shall NOT make ...
This is BS.
They will still only allow “free speech” as they define it.
Be interesting to see. Will they allow someone to praise Trump? Say something pro-life? Anti-LGBT? Pro-Israel? Anti-China? We know the NBA would never allow anything remotely anti-China?
LOL.
Free speech zones? I don’t think they understand free speech.
is the bad bunny halftime show gonna be a free speech zone?
this will be the very much less than super bowl for a multitude of reasons
Can’t wait to not watch this anti-American nonsense on Sunday...
I hope that somebody has the “goal“ to utter some free speech slogans outside of the “Free speech zone.“ If he or she gets arrested, they have a magnificent lawsuit against this fascist city - and those who formulated this abomination and who enforce it will be personally liable.
gall, not goal.
Once this is over, the next fun disaster to not watch will be
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/soccer/egypt-iran-fifa-world-cup-pride-match-seattle/3994549/
Anyone hear any updates on this?
feed her to the Iranians
They already do. It's called the "football field". The NFL seriously considered fining players for racial, gay and other "hate speech". When they tested it, they found almost all the offenders were black so they dropped the idea.
You'll notice NFL broadcasts have a lot less "live mic" moments than they used to and the "mic'ed up" segments are obviously edited.

The Super Bowl has evolved from a classic gridiron football championship into a Hunger Games style spectacle for celebrities, featuring a halftime show with a political performer wearing a dress, controversial because he is a man.
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