Aquile, Chiefs lands in New Orleans for the Super Bowl Week

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs landed in New Orleans for the Super Bowl week.

Both groups got here out of their planes within the solar and temperatures within the 60s on Sunday afternoon, every week earlier than their matchup within the Super Bowl Lix on February 9 (18:30 et on Fox).

The gamers and the workers made their approach down the cell stairs from their planes to buses ready for asphalt with out numerous fanfare. Most of the Eagles’ gamers and workers wore black fits with a “Super Bowl Lix” emblem on the chest and made their method to their bus with out numerous fanfare. The coach of the clothes Andy Reid wore a blue gown with a crimson tie.

One of the pilots on the Eagles aircraft hung a inexperienced and white flag from the studying of the window, “Geaux Birds”, a comedy on the pronunciation of French-chosi phrases as many surnames in Louisiana-they find yourself with the letters “Eaux”.

The Super Bowl week arrives a month after a terrorist assault in Bourbon Street within the well-known French neighborhood of the town within the early hours of January 1, throughout which a person led a truck on the sidewalk and pedestrians, killing 14 individuals earlier than that he had killed him in a taking pictures with the police.

Safety was tight on the airport for the arrivals of the Super Bowl. The members of the media had been saved behind the barricades about 50 meters from the place the groups made their approach from their airplanes to buses and there have been no interviews.

The Eagles (17-3) superior to the Super Bowl by beating the commanders of Washington within the match of the NFC championship, 55-23.

The Chiefs (17-2), who’re making an attempt to change into the primary workforce to win three consecutive tremendous bowls, took the AFC crown with a 32-29 victory over Buffalo Bills.

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The arrivals have began every week of actions that led to the primary tremendous Bowl of New Orleans since 2013.

“This is the primary day of the fruits of eight years of planning,” mentioned Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation and the president of the Host Committee of the Super Bowl of New Orleans Jay Cicero, alluding to time for the reason that metropolis gained its provide for the sport of the title of this season.

“It’s a bit surreal that the groups are coming,” he mentioned. “We are excited that that is taking place. It’s time to go on.”

Cicero, who was on the airport for arrivals, noticed {that a} examine by the University of New Orleans concluded that the 2013 Super Bowl led to about 480 million {dollars} within the bills within the metropolitan space.

“It will definitely be increased than that 12 years later,” he mentioned.

Cicero mentioned that over 6,000 media credentials had been issued for the Super Bowl, in comparison with about 5,200 in 2013 and double the quantity issued for the 1997 Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Reporting by the Associated Press.

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