Super Bowl 50 Comes to Town

Last weekend we enjoyed the opening of Super Bowl City in San Francisco.  Santa Clara is hosting Super Bowl 50 this year, but the pre-game fun is in SF.  We planned to give the free Super Bowl City a shot first and if that didn't excite us we were going to head to Moscone - home of the NFL Experience ($$$$).

Well 10 minutes inside SB City, we fell in love.  We spent the better part of the day cruising the fun and booths.  Like the Bud Light Booth...

Football and hand is made out of cans

Another from the Bud Light booth

Since we were in the beer booth, of course Dave and I had to start the "pregame fun" with a beer.  Mind you, it was maybe 11am at this point. 

So we continued our walk around and spotted a line - the first of many.  And we decided to get a fun picture of Drew as a Denver Bronco.

Bronco/Raider Rivalry lives on

While in line to take a picture as a Bronco (yes they had a Carolina Panther there also) Drew spotted a zip-line activity.  We told him we'd check it out and that could be the one event he did while we were there - expecting it to be an overpriced attraction.  SURPRISE!! IT'S FREE!!! 

We simply needed to head to a different tent to sign up for a time slot and sign the waivers.  On the way over I snapped a pretty shot of the Ferry Building all decorated.  The skies were so clear and blue on this day which was a treat after a bunch of rain earlier in the week.

Ferry Building

Another shot looking to our left of the CBS Sports area that we would hit up next.

Once we got our time slot (3pm - about 3 hours to kill) we headed over to see what the CBS Sports field was all about.  Who knew there were more activities!?  We were really in awe about all the fun that was to be had.

Drew/McFadden on the 50 Yard Line

The big activity - yes another line - was to run down Lombard Street (San Francisco's famous crooked street) and try and catch a football at the end.  We'll go with the fact that Drew caught the ball... since this photo - yes we got a free souvenir of the "catch" - looks like he might have actually caught it.

Drew's first catch attempt

Dave tried his Lombard Run... and he was showing off for the camera, and jumped out of frame.

Dave's Lombard Catch

After hanging out in CBS Sports area, we decided to walk and see what else there was to find...

More Beer :)

By this point Drew was starving so we decided to pick up up a pizza at Boudin - a ridiculous wait for just a small pizza.  but then we snapped a few more photos after the child was fed.

The boys staring at the large painted building

While I was in line for Drew's lunch, the boys stood in line to get the family shot in front of the big 5-0.  I got a text while waiting for the pizza that I needed to get out there quick for our photo.  It worked out - we got the big picture.

After eating, it was time for Drew to report to the Zip Line!  It was supposed to be a Father/Son event however Dave weighed in 5 lbs too heavy and had to stay back.  So Drew braved it alone.  No Fear!

Ready for the Zip Line

And he's off!!!

Here is the GoPro Video that we got as a souvenir - again FREE!

I have to say Super Bowl City more than blew me away.  There was still so much more to do but we didn't take part in due to the lines.  Drew had enough by that point and so we let him burn off some additional steam at the playground before we decided to call it quits for the night.  The crowds were getting heavier and it was getting colder.  While we missed the Chris Issak concert and the fireworks/bridge lighting, we had an absolute blast!  And it was entirely free!  (Not the beer or Drew's pizza however).