Glendale (United States), 11 Feb. Less than 48 hours before the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs game for the NFL title, Phoenix (Arizona, USA) is accelerating preparations for a Super Bowl that has already taken the city from top to bottom.
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, which is one of the cities that make up the Phoenix metro area (nearly 5 million people in total), will host Super Bowl LVII on Sunday to a sold-out crowd and with Rihanna as the star of the show. .rest.
But football fever is already being felt in every corner of Phoenix this weekend.
Downtown Phoenix, despite being nearly 30 miles from State Farm Stadium, is a place of pilgrimage for fans these days ahead of the Super Bowl Experience, which takes over the city’s Convention Center.
Conceived as a kind of amusement and amusement park for NFL fans, the Super Bowl Experience allows visitors, for example, to practice training exercises as if they were NFL professionals, to practice hard tackles, throw passes as if they were a “quarterback” chosen for glory or attempt a kick to score a ‘field goal’.
This big NFL event, specially designed for families and children, also includes a recreation of a league locker room with the clothes, boots and personal items of stars such as Patrick Mahomes, the “quarterback”. of the Kansas City Chiefs and one of the main names for Sunday’s game.
Besides the Super Bowl experience, the NFL Finals is also being felt on the streets of Phoenix with many red Chiefs jerseys and green Eagles jerseys thousands of fans already counting down the hours until Sunday’s game .
Phoenix thus takes over from Los Angeles, which hosted the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium last year, and will pass the baton to Las Vegas, which in 2024 will host the most anticipated game of the year in the United States at the Allegiant Stadium.
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