How did they get permission for a stadium full of people when other sports are cardboard cutouts?
I was shocked to see how big the crowd was, at first I thought it was a trick, like a giant photo and taped crowd noises, or something.
But looking closer, it’s not. I didn’t watch long enough to see if most have masks, but a lot didn’t, at first glance. They sure weren’t social distancing.
Are there any protocols being observed? And just how big is the crowd, did they say?
A great number of those fans are specially selected health care workers who have been vaccinated. 7500 of them are guests of the NFL, and each of the 32 teams have invited a number of health care workers.
They said that there were only 25,000 people with an additional 35,000 cardboard cutouts. The cardboard cutouts were from fans who paid a hundred bucks and were entered in a contest for a pair of tickets for the game next year.
I’m not a football fan and could not care less about the Super Bowl, but I know this must be a huge deal for those workers who are there, and they deserve their night out for sure!
Yeah, whenever they showed close ups of the stands it looks like many “people” are actually the cut-outs. But from far away I really did think the stadium was full!
While this could potentially go in the Quarantine Zone, I think most people who are informed about the specific protocols for the game will be found in the Game Room. Moved from GQ.
That shocked me when they mentioned it during the game. I simply can’t imagine paying a hundred dollars to have a picture of me placed at a Super Bowl game. Why?
Sure, but a $100 lottery ticket seems expensive when, based on the costs I saw, you’re entering for a chance to win something costing $15,000, and there were at least 35,000 other entrants. They’d have to give out a lot of tickets from the $3.5 million they charged in total for it to make sense to me.
(I’m using the costs and number of people from this thread, plus the cost of Super Bowl tickets being about $7000 per person, as indicated on the first result on Google.)
That was the “Bud Knight,” a character who appeared in the medieval-themed Bud Light ads a year or two ago. They haven’t used the character recently (though he was in the “Bud Light Legends” ad which ran during the game). But, you’re right, his helmet, with the T-shaped eye slit, looks very Mandalorian.
AIUI, transmission of Covid if everyone is wearing masks, in a big outdoors environment, separated by yards, is extremely difficult.
The virus would have to leave someone’s mouth or nose and somehow escape the mask and float over precisely to where someone else is sitting, without getting blown in another direction by wind, AND enter that person’s mask, and get into his nose or mouth, in a sufficient amount to cause infection.
You do realize that most people aren’t looking at this as an actuarial exercise, right? They know they aren’t making a investment, it’s a lark. For sentimental reasons with a sweetener in that maybe it could maybe win them something.
It’s mostly novelty. They get to tell their friends they were “at” the 2020 superbowl, maybe see their cardboard cutout on TV, and it’s a fun little story. And they get to feel like they’e part of some big event. It would be no trouble at all to find 35000 people with $100 they could throw at something like that.
Of course the pre-superbowl festivals looked like this so I’m not sure anything matters anymore. Florida gonna Florida.
Since there are millions of Americans that are vaccinated and countless people who want to go to a superbowl I don’t really see why they couldn’t just put a proof of vaccine (or proof of vaccine 1+ month ago) requirement on the superbowl and have normal attendence, except to set an example.
Well that’s an apt typo!
