Super Bowl Sunday
My Super Bowl Sunday began at 7:30am, with a walk from the house to Westgate and the stadium to pick up the car we had left over night before it was towed. Media, parking attendants and others were already buzzing and there was a quiet excitement in the air.
Westgate
I went home, got ready to head back over to Westgate and spend my day at the Yard House, getting there by 10:30am to get us a good table to watch the game at. By 10:30, people were arriving, parking, walking around, bands playing, lines forming at the different bars and restaurants.
I hung out on the Yard House patio with several different fans, including a family of Giants fans who were awesome! (I hope you boys enjoyed the game!) Basically from 11-3, I was people watching- and I wish I would have taken more pictures!
Football fans are wild- you see all shapes and sizes, crazy hats, unique jersey’s and of course, personal pets! (Saw a parrot, and a lizard of some sort walking around with their owners!)
I met up with Super Bowl Mike and his boys there, including Super Bowl Monkey- who took pictures with people, and looking for tickets, and drinking (bad monkey). We got a great table in the middle of the restaurant, where we were surrounded by no fewer than six big screen tvs, and several hundred people!
The Game
By the time the pre-show started, the football natives were restless! As the game started, there were constant chants of (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap) “Let’s go Patriots!” and “Let’s go Giants!”! Nobody really got out of hand, but the energy really started to build after half time. (My friend Kid Stallyn was in the Tom Petty half time show with Erin and some others who met through this site! But I didn’t see them on tv.)
It might have been the longest last 2 and half minutes of a game ever- but it was certainly longest last 30 seconds. A Cardinals fan, I had adopted to the Giants after their first amazing game with the Patriots. Still, I thought, like most everyone else, that in those remaining seconds, Tom Brady would come through with a win like he had so many times before.
When it was clear (with 2 seconds left) that the Giants had won- the place cleared out- not sure where the Patriots fans went- but they were soon no where to be seen. Apparently there were a couple of fans fighting on the opposite side of the Yard House from us, because a whole army of police, all different kinds, came streaming in through the back door and right on either side of our table. (There were sooooo many police, swat, security, mounty, etc. around- NO ONE was going to get out of hand lol).
Anti-climatic
After my friends and I left the Yard House, we walked out to the Westgate celebration. We watched for a bit, and then decided to walk home. As we did, we saw the newspapers naming the Giants as winners, Super Bowl gear and hats, and lots of people heading out as well. As we crossed the street and walked back- my friend said- “How weird is it that we are walking home from the Super Bowl?”
There may be a few more updates from various people here, and then stick a fork in us, because we are pretty much done here on this site! I hope I helped many of you, I enjoyed meeting a lot of great people through the site, and I got to experience some really cool things and learned a lot along the way!
-AZSuperbowlBlogger
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After researching other Super Bowl sites, I realized there was not a whole lot of really useful information for football fans, locals, or those who may be traveling here to Arizona for NFL games, the BCS Fiesta Bowl and/or Super Bowl XLII.
I decided to create a site that I would want to check out, full of information from locals about the area and what is going on here, for NFL games or Super Bowl XLII, so AZ Super Bowl Blog was born.
http://azsuperbowlblog.com/
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