As Super Bowl 50 approaches, tourists overtake San Francisco

San Francisco is a city that is known for many things, from the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, to Cable Cars and Chinatown. Our take: it’s a kind of goofy fun in the sense, as a local, you know how the area around and near Justin Herman Plaza usually looks, and it’s a bit awe-inspiring to see how it’s been transformed with broadcast booths, stages, portable buildings, bars, and eateries. Visitors take photographs in front of a Super Bowl sign at Levi’s Stadium Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, in Santa Clara, Calif. Super Bowl 50, between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos, will be played at Levi’s Stadium…

As families and sports fans enjoy live entertainment, games and photo ops, police are roaming Super Bowl City and the surrounding area, some are in full tactical gear.

“We plan for everything we can think of and hope none of it happens”, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said.

“We’re still trying to entertain the fan during some of these commercial breaks”, said Jazz Singh, a product manager in charge of the NFL’s mobile properties.

“We are coordinating, we have been for the past few months regarding what responsibilities need to be obtained to make this event and throughout the city safe”, said SFPD Lieutenant Sergio Chin.

Along with extra manpower, there are also bomb-sniffing dogs and metal detectors parked along entrances to the public events throughout the city.

It’s all to make sure fans like Adonis Bell and Johnny Foster stay safe.

The Super Bowl is considered the second-highest threat environment under U.S. federal guidelines, a notch below what is called a National Security Special Event, which includes summits of world leaders and presidential inaugurations.