SB 52 - Thank god its over!

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Happiest Monday ever. As many know Super bowl 52 was hosted in the wintery tundra of downtown Minneapolis this year, a few short blocks from my place of employment. For the last 10 days SB52 has had a plethora of both free and paid events across the city and into some suburbs. Our convention center hosted the SB Experience, a paid family expo of "fun" activities indoor. Our outdoor picturesque Nicollet Mall street downtown hosted SB Live, with outdoor activities and local bands playing in a public safety saturated 6 block stretch of street. Yes, people are insane. An outdoor event in Minnesota February. It was 0 degrees and -19 windchill for the game yesterday. They did have a couple of snowmobile flips and stunts which would have been cool to see. For locals and myself in particular - SB52 has been cool but mainly a headache. You have added traffic, mostly full parking ramps downtown. National guard, FBI, law enforcement from 60 cities across the metro concentrated in the downtown area. For the past 10 days bars have been open until 0400am instead of the usual 0200am. Also has been weird to see and hear so many helicopters and jets above your head all throughout the day. My job had also mandated 12 hour shifts during this period which has been draining. And with only one day off between stretches. Yuck. Its all over!!! Hurray. The game itself i watched in entirety. It was close! How was your SB52 experience?