Super Bowl LX Live Updates: Fans arrive as festivities swing into gear
Welcome to Super Bowl Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, which is hosting the NFL’s title game for the first time since 2016. Our reporters and photographers are positioned throughout the stadium and surrounding areas, tracking developments as they happen — including security posture, crowd movement, transportation and any protest activity — along with the moments on the field that shape the game.
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12:02 p.m., downtown San Jose
Valley Transportation Authority light rail trains headed to Levi’s Stadium from downtown San Jose are already packed, despite running three-car trains every 10 to 20 minutes. Fans of both teams appeared to be showing out in force, though Seattle Seahawks fans appeared to be slightly outnumbering New England Patriots supporters at the Bonaventura station in North San Jose.
11:59 a.m.: Outside Levi’s Stadium
Andrew Wergeland-Rammage, 35, traveled all the way from Seattle to watch the Seahawks play. Decked out in Seahawks gear, he even painted his foot-long beard half green and half blue in honor of his team. Even his drink was green.
“I’m feeling, fantastic, amazing, phenomenal,” he said. “I did my beard blue and green. … I do it every Seahawks game.”
11:45 a.m.: Outside Levi’s Stadium
Tal Winder, a 41-year-old resident of Lathrop but who lived in the Bay Area for 28 years and has been a Patriots fan for 30, is decked out in Patriots gear: a suit jacket with the Patriots logo repeating, a hat and face paint.
“I’m from the Bay Area, so having your team in your backyard, this is something I had to go. I bought my ticket a couple of days ago. So I feel amazing,” he said. “I’m feeling excited, feeling like we’re gonna come out and win, obviously.”
11:06 a.m.: Outside Levi’s Stadium
Gates to the stadium open, allowing in a flood of fans for the nation’s largest sporting event of the year. Just minutes earlier at a nearby pregame party, attractions include food, drinks and a bevy of merchandise stands. The attractions include a Captain Morgan stand styled like a boat, along with a botanical garden featuring women dressed in bedazzled floral dresses, along with a San Francisco cable car. Rival DJ booths repping the Seahawks and the Patriots are trying to drown each other out.
9:23 a.m.: West entrance, Levi’s Stadium
Fans decked out in Patriots and Seahawks gear began to mingle near the entrances to the Super Bowl LX, while a heavy security presence could be seen across the area, including local police officers and FBI agents.
A network of hundreds of law enforcement officers and security personnel – most visible, others harder to spot – are expected to fan out across the 1.85-million-square-foot venue and its surroundings Sunday to watch for potential threats. They’ll be supported by an untold number of surveillance cameras, drones and real-time technological hubs aimed at keeping attendees safe.
Ahead of the game, those preparations even included a low-flying Leonardo AW-139 helicopter equipped with radiation sensors.