Fans in the audience are taking a selfie just before the 55th Super Bowl match of the US Professional Football (NFL) championship match held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on the 7th (local time). Cardboard spectators fill the seats next to them. Tampa=EPA Yonhap News
A sports event that Americans enthusiastic about,’Super Bowl’, a championship match for the Pro Football (NFL), ended with the victory of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the 7th (local time). It is becoming a hot topic on (SNS).
This is because more than half of the spectators in the match that surprised viewers amid concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) were’cardboard fans’. In September of last year, the NFL, which played a game that filled one-fifth of the spectator seats with the animated’South Park’ character made of cardboard, this time filled 30,000 seats, which is about half the capacity of the stadium.
The audience is filled with cardboard fans during the 55th Super Bowl match of the US Pro Football Champions Decision held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on the 7th. Tampa = AP Yonhap News
On this day, the US internet media BuzzFeed said, “30,000’cardboard fans’ including singers Billy Eilish, Drake, and Eminem filled the Super Bowl audience.” It was held in this gathering.” The previous Super Bowl minimum spectator record was 61,946 in 1967.
According to BuzzFeed, the Raymond James Stadium, where the match was held on the day, has a maximum audience capacity of 65,000. However, the NFL has limited the number of spectators to 22,000. Of these, the paid audience was 14,500, and the remaining 7,500 seats were filled by Corona 19 treatment medical staff invited by the NFL for free.
The NFL prepared cardboard fans with photos of themselves or loved ones sent by fans with $100. Some of the proceeds obtained in this way are donated to Feeding Tempa Bay, a non-profit organization.
The audience is filled with cardboard fans during the 55th Super Bowl match of the US Pro Football Champions Decision held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on the 7th. Tampa=UPI Yonhap News
This is not the first time the NFL has shown a cardboard crowd. The NFL filled part of the audience with’South Park’ character cardboard at a match between the Denver Bronx and Tampa Bay Buccaneers held at Denver’s Empower Field in September last year.
The NFL emptied half of the audience by introducing cardboard fans in this Super Bowl game, but some viewers still felt anxious. BuzzFeed said, “People were stressed by the appearance of the full stadium on the screen,” and “I was frustrated by the gathering of thousands of people even during the Corona 19 pandemic, where families could not meet, let alone normal social activities for almost a year.” And pinched.
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