After a one-year layover the NFL brings the Super Bowl back to an outdoor, open-roof stadium and the league should be thankful as weather conditions are unlikely to effect the championship game’s outcome.
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Secretary Jeh Johnson said he and his team have been “constantly” in contact with security officials in Paris following the November 13 attacks there by gunmen linked to the Islamic State militant group.
“We are always informed by recent events and what we see in the world situation”, he said.
If you’re a Verizon cellular subscriber, it’ll let you watch Super Bowl 50 live as well as more videos and highlights than you can shake a stick at.
Johnson said intelligence has picked up no troubling signals so far.
Last year’s Super Bowl at University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona was no slouch in the Wi-Fi department, as the Arizona Cardinals IT team installed 800 access points in the venue to support fans’ ravenous appetite for wireless data.
Signs of beefed up security are visible throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Suhr said to date few arrests have been made in San Francisco, where a lion’s share of the fans have been partying over the past few days, and most of the law enforcement has been focused on those “having too much fun”.
Though officers are working to combat the purchase and sale of false Super Bowl tickets, Miller noted much of the onus to protect against scams falls on the customers who may be seeking seats to the game on the secondary market.
While an enhanced fan experience is important, even more impressive are the business benefits of the app. VenueNext, the company that produces the NFL’s app, has built a similar app for the 49ers that has been in use for the past season at Levi’s Stadium and it has “helped the stadium both reduce its food and beverage costs and raise its sales revenue”, according to the IB Times article.
Fans are encouraged to take public transportation to the game rather than attempt to courageous the roads expected to be packed with traffic.
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In particular, officials say they are concerned with “lone wolf” attackers who are not directed by terror networks but are inspired by their rhetoric. “That means we need more resources than previous games”.
