MIAMI — Welcome to Super Bowl week! Last Sunday the Chiefs and 49ers punched their tickets to Miami, and both teams arrived on Sunday to a city very much still in the calm-before-the-storm phase.
Miami International Airport is decked out with some of the requisite Super Bowl trimmings. Patrick Mahomes and Jimmy Garoppolo posters adorn pillars at baggage claim. Staff members holding cardboard cutouts of football helmets encouraged incoming travelers arriving to share photos using the official hashtag, reminding us that this is not just a football game but a #socialexperience. The Super Bowl logo and NFL 100 insignia with a teal and palm tree motif is omnipresent, featured at the airport and on lamp posts along busy streets throughout Miami Beach.