re: 2018 Super Bowl...who gets it?

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I also read somewhere that tv ratings can increase in bad weather because people like watching clusterfricks. I wonder if anyone has actually looked at the total number of tourists who traveled to party but not actually go to the game

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I want a clean fair game. Watching the slop around is worthless and nothing more than an excuse and talking point. I want both teams at their best.

I can tell you from experience. There were THOUSANDS of people in new orleans that weren't going and just partying. I can't even begin to estimate.

Here some good stats:

Looking at game day attendance, participation in the NFL Experience theme park at the convention center and crowd sizes at the Super Bowl Boulevard festival in Woldenberg Park, the study estimated attendance in Super Bowl festivities at 133,145, which falls within the 120,000 to 150,000 range organizers projected before Super Bowl week.

The game itself drew a crowd of 72,000, the report said, while 31,217 went to the NFL Experience and 29,928 attended the festival overlooking the Mississippi River.

To gather information on visitors, a team from UNO collected surveys in several central locations for Super Bowl events over five days, from Jan. 30 through Feb. 3.

From a set of 799 of those surveys, the researchers found 74.6 percent of the event-goers were visiting from outside the New Orleans area.

Out of 185 respondents who answered that they lived in or around New Orleans, almost half came from Jefferson Parish to take in Super Bowl events, about 32 percent lived in New Orleans and the rest of the parishes in the metropolitan area sent much smaller numbers.

And honestly it was probably a bit more than that if they were only use those few venues to gauge numbers. I'd put it more to 200k total with 100k just for the party.