Posted on 02/06/2016 11:50:51 AM PST by nickcarraway
Friday night's program featured a fireworks show and a One Republic concert.
San Francisco police turned away thousands of people from Super Bowl City late Friday when the event reached maximum capacity.
The popular free event along the Embarcadero on Friday night drew a crush of visitors and NFL fans looking to soak up the excitement over Super Bowl weekend. The night was headlined by a fireworks show and a performance from One Republic.
An officer patrolling Super Bowl City estimated at least 15,000 people inside the event late Friday.
Many who planned to attend the event were disappointed when police turned them away.
"I was bummed out," said Norris Rivers, who came from Stockton. "It didn't work out, but we're here having fun." Some people took Friday's early closure in stride.
"For safety reasons you have to limit the number of people," said Sia Langi, a San Francisco resident. "But there is another night tomorrow."
Super Bowl City resumes Saturday and pop star Alicia Keys is scheduled to perform in the evening.
I’m probably in the minority here.
But, I have wondered how the Super Bowl evolved into an event with so much hype and activities unrelated to football.
When you get right down to it, The Super Bowl is simply the NFL championship game. Why is there so much other activity surrounding the game, and excitement about who the halftime performers will be and all that? Why so much hype and anticipation of the one of a kind TV commercials to be shown during the game????
Take a marketing course.
It is where the rich go to rub elbows…or companies rent boxes for there employees
When the NFL realized there was ton of money to be made by marketing to women.
I am sure we’ll soon be hearing about all the human trafficking at the Super Bowl. This is where they make the prostitutes the victims.
They’ll come up with some bizarre number 40,000 girls/women being brought to the town of the Super Bowl. I’ve seen them use numbers before that would require almost every male (regardless of age) that goes to the Super Bowl to have sex with one of them.
I found out later that it was some liberal woman lawyer from the northeast that was behind so much of it. She gets a lot of donations and government money. I guess that’s why she over-hypes the numbers.
I can see where the hoopla would offend some folks. Perhaps a milder word should have been used, but it is somewhat off-putting to some folks.
Let me suggest a different way to look at it.
It’s an all American event. It’s probably the biggest draw and periferal activity in the United States each year. The Rosebowl may compete when you toss in the Rose Parade, so it’s a big event.
It’s a heralding of Americana. It’s an amazing event that tens of thousands attend in person, the game or it’s surrounding activity.
It is watched by millions on the tube. The commercials are fascinating, even though they are just hawking merchandise.
The game is a great one. It’s two pseudo military forces seeking to take land and conquer the enemy. God how it drives the Left bat S crazy. Gotta love that as well.
Celebrate the big event. Sure it’s commercialized. This is a Capitalist free enterprise nation, and we should celebrate that.
Very cool on so many levels.
Civilization on parade...
All the other sports have best-of-seven Championship Series. I mean team sports. So the Super Bowl is the one instance where there’s one game that everyone is watching for a championship. Plus football just has higher ratings than the other sports.
All the other sports have best-of-seven Championship Series. I mean team sports. So the Super Bowl is the one instance where there’s one game that everyone is watching for a championship. Plus football just has higher ratings than the other sports.
Very interesting post.
Those crazy stats were thrown out when the SB was in Indianapolis and I said they make no sense at all.
The media parrots them without even a sanity check.
The game is the steak and everything around it is the sizzle. No one knows if the game will be a good steak till the end. But all the sizzle is pegged to entertain you and sell to you until the very end.
The Super Bowl -- even the game itself -- is aimed at an audience of people that doesn't give a sh!t about football. That's how you end up with U2 (they aren't even American, for heaven's sake) doing a halftime performance, and Lady Gaga singing the national anthem.
“But, I have wondered how the Super Bowl evolved into an event with so much hype and activities unrelated to football.”
Follow the money!
Security must have their hands full. Every bag, backpack, etc. has to be suspected.
Millions and millions of tax dollars are spent on human trafficking. Most of it is just a few folks creating some out of the sky numbers and cashing the checks.
They receive a lot of private donations too.
Not many politicians say they support human trafficking. They have to be against it so the leaders of their organizations get their money.
“It’s an all American event. It’s probably the biggest draw and periferal activity in the United States each year. The Rosebowl may compete when you toss in the Rose Parade, so it’s a big event.”
That’s peanuts. Mardi Gras / Carnival draws millions to the Gulf South.
Google search: “1.2 MILLION people attended Mardi Gras festivities last year—3.5 times the population of New Orleans. The City of New Orleans Spends $3.33 MILLION on Mardi Gras each year. Mar 8, 2011”
And that’s just one city. It doesn’t include the other cities and towns that put on Mardi Gras parades.
I wonder if all this hoopla will go one when Green Bay gets its turn to host?..............
There are something like 20,000 RVs parked in the area around the track at Talladega -- including the track grounds, parking areas, and campgrounds within the surrounding counties -- during the week of their biggest races.
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