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Super Bowl planners have said that “more than a million visitors” will be in Minneapolis for the big game in less than two weeks. But most of them aren’t who you think.
The actual horde expected to descend on the Twin Cities from outside the state is closer to 125,000, according to estimates from Pennsylvania-based Rockport Analytics, which is working with the Super Bowl Host Committee.