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The Super Bowl is always the hottest ticket around, but things got a little warmer today when a fire broke out at an NFL Experience tent.
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From video game contests to player autographs to a 56-year-old man in a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders costume, the NFLX After Dark celebration offered fans a wild, and wet, experience Thursday night.
The NFL Experience, the interactive exhibit that lets football fans play like the pros, was supposed to be a bonding opportunity for me and my 13-year-old son, Brian. There we were, lined up Saturday morning across from each other at the Training Camp exhibit in a three-point stance, ready to race. We had to push a sled, run through two orange pylons, tip-toe across a rope ladder, duck under a cross-bar, scale a hurdle and then blast through two heavy bags to make a tackle in the padded end zone. All while being timed.
Tribune reporter Jeff Houck and his son are among the first to experience the NFL Experience at Raymond James Stadium.
The National Football League bills the NFL Experience as pro football's interactive theme park. Right now, the only interactive part of the attraction is for the workers putting it together.Noah Gold, an NFL Experience spokesman, said today he is confident the work will be finished before the gates open Saturday morning.
Map includes guide to exhibits, schedules and more.
Tampa police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives brought their bomb-detecting dogs to the NFL Experience this morning to demonstrate how the dogs will check for explosives over the next week.
From the NFL Experience to the Madden Bowl, there's plenty of Super Bowl activities for the locals.
Linda and Bob Phillips are no strangers to volunteer work. They volunteered to help out the last time the Super Bowl visited Tampa, in 2001, and were in line Thursday morning to pick up their uniforms for this year's event.
A small city of galvanized steel and canvas is springing up around Raymond James Stadium. Come the day of the Big Game on Feb. 1, these huge tents will provide shelter for food and drink, fun and games and shade for the tailgating masses attending Super Bowl XLIII.
Tickets for the NFL Experience, an interactive fan festival the week leading up to the Super Bowl, go on sale Wednesday. The NFL Experience opens Jan. 24. Events will be in the south parking lot of Raymond James Stadium, site of Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1. It will be closed Jan. 26-27, then will reopen until game day. Also, NFLX After Dark opens the festival for adults only from 9 p.m. to midnight Jan. 29.
Out-of-state football fans will get help leaving next year's Super Bowl in the form of lighted street signs.
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