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It's nary concealed that San Francisco has been rife with homelessness and transgression successful caller years, but that was pugnacious to ideate during Super Bowl week, according to Pat McAfee.
Granted, the large crippled was astir an hr southeast successful Santa Clara, but the Super Bowl instrumentality acquisition and media enactment were close successful the metropolis astatine the Moscone Center, and McAfee was impressed with his surroundings.
"I would similar to reiterate the information that San Francisco was bully to america retired there. It's a bully city. We've been walking astir present miles and miles," McAfee said connected his show Monday, adding the metropolis was "good to us."
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McAfee admitted helium heard from the critics astir his alternatively upscale amenities, from five-star hotels to backstage information done "the backstage of a normal center," which could pb to a affirmative cognition automatically.
"I recognize that could beryllium my life, and it sounds beauteous sick, actually. But…we walked that s--t," McAfee said. "We were each implicit that place."
"Granted, it was conscionable our area. I presume determination are s----y areas. I mean, it is simply a city. I deliberation that benignant of happens successful astir cities. But the portion we were astatine was precise nice," helium continued.
McAfee admitted that helium really expected San Francisco to beryllium a "s---hole," arsenic helium had heard it was erstwhile a "dump."
"I was really readying connected starring disconnected the show… 'Can't hold to person to archer the information astir San Francisco if it is not great,'" McAfee added.
49ers stars Christian McCaffrey, Brock Purdy, and Fred Warner praised the city to Fox News Digital during media week.
"It's a historical metropolis with truthful overmuch character. The food, the hills, the homes, the water, the bridge, the full thing. It's conscionable specified a large city, too, and it's truly chill to spot it travel to beingness adjacent much than it already is," McCaffrey said.
"Man, I deliberation San Francisco has truthful overmuch to offer," the backmost Purdy added. "Just, obviously, with the restaurants, the experiences, conscionable however beauteous it is retired present with the Golden Gate Bridge and the ocean. It's a large city, large people. So to person the Super Bowl retired present is truly cool."
Warner revelled successful the information that the metropolis is simply a "melting pot."
Just each the antithetic cultures mixing, each the diverseness and mixing together," Warner said. "You tin get a small spot of everything that you're looking for retired here, and of course, playing successful the top stadium successful the full NFL, Levi's Stadium, you can't bushed it, and truthful I deliberation it's gonna beryllium a large Super Bowl Sunday and a large week arsenic good with each the antithetic activities that they got planned for everybody."
Back successful 2023, Buster Posey, the hometown Giants' president of shot operations and erstwhile catcher, said players and their wives person a antagonistic cognition of San Francisco.
"Something I deliberation is noteworthy, thing that unluckily keeps popping up from players and adjacent the players’ wives is there’s a spot of an uneasiness with the metropolis itself, arsenic acold arsenic the authorities of the city, with crime, with drugs," Posey said to The Athletic successful 2023, adding that it affected their pursuit of Shohei Ohtani.
"Whether that’s each wholly just oregon not, cognition is reality. It’s a frustrating cycle, I think, and not conscionable with baseball. Baseball is secondary to beingness and the important things successful life. But arsenic acold arsenic a free-agent pursuit goes, I person seen that it does impact things."
The estimated colonisation of San Francisco is astir 827,000 people, the 13th-most populous metropolis successful the United States. It's estimated, however, that over 8,000 radical are homeless successful the city.
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