{"id":180327,"date":"2026-02-16T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180327\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:21:08","slug":"san-jose-draws-large-number-of-fans-during-super-bowl-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180327\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose draws large number of fans during Super Bowl week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">While nearly all the official NFL events around Super Bowl LX were in S.F., fans still \u201cshowed up in droves for events\u201d organized by the San Jose Sports Authority, Visit San Jose and the city of San Jose, according to Pizarro &amp; Stringer of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. There were \u201cabout 459,000 unique visitors\u201d to downtown San Jose from Jan. 31 through Feb. 8. The biggest day was Feb. 7, when \u201cabout 153,000 people descended on downtown for the Dom Dolla block party and San Pedro Super Fest event.\u201d The city\u2019s first use of an entertainment zone downtown \u201cbrought just under 48,000 visitors to San Pedro Square.\u201d Videos from the weekend showed people \u201cpacked in so tightly at times that it was difficult for some to move along narrow San Pedro Street.\u201d However, the week was \u201cnot without its challenges,\u201d as there were \u201cseven shootings downtown during a 24-hour period from early Sunday morning through Monday morning, resulting in two fatalities.\u201d San Jose Sports Authority Exec Dir John Pock said that they are \u201cready for NCAA tournament games in March,\u201d the next event in the San Jose lineup for 2026 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/14\/south-bay-officials-take-a-post-super-bowl-victory-lap-look-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/14\/south-bay-officials-take-a-post-super-bowl-victory-lap-look-ahead\/\">San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 2\/14<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While nearly all the official NFL events around Super Bowl LX were in S.F., fans still \u201cshowed up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[11789,752,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-180327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-fan-experience","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}