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Another hassle that could have easily been avoided is a lawsuit filed against MetLife Stadium’s operators by Taylor Turf, the company that installed the field’s playing surface last summer. The artificial grass was put in in only 11 days, a process that normally takes twice as long, according to Taylor Turf’s owner and the company is still owed $292,000 for the rush job. While that gets worked out, the NFL has it’s own legal problem – a New Jersey lawyer has sued the NFL, alleging that only 1 percent of 77,500 Super Bowl tickets are sold to the public at face value, which is in violation of state laws that say five percent of tickets for any event be sold at face value.Fans Will Be Monitored by Police at All Times
The execs who run the league aren’t worried about the weather small-fry lawsuits, of course. They’re much more worried about a terrorist attack. As a result, the already extremely security-conscious NYC metropolitan area has gotten even more paranoid than usual, installing 200 additional temporary security cameras around Times Square. Fans roaming the streets of Manhattan, miles away from where the game is to be held, will constantly be under surveillance – according to the Associated Press, “Hazmat and bomb squads will be on standby. Others officers will patrol with bomb-sniffing dogs. Still more will watch from rooftops and from police helicopters.”
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The payoff for all these headaches and all these security measures is the $500 or $600 million that New York and New Jersey will get in extra consuming spending from all those tourists who come to town. Ha! That was a little bit of Super Bowl economics humour – though the NFL likes to throw big numbers like that around, experts who have studied the impact of the Super Bowl on local businesses say that the event actually brings in, at best, only about $50 or $60 million in increased economic activity. Visitors coming to town for the football spend more at NFL-sponsored shops and events rather than local establishments, so the money doesn’t get funnelled into the area’s economy. What's worse, the shitstorm of activity might dissuade those who would normally visit New York – Broadway producers have complained to Variety that the Super Bowl Boulevard street fair in Midtown Manhattan will cause visitors to avoid the theaters in the area and hurt box office revenues.

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Those New York City parties are where you find people who are actually going to profit off the game. The beneficiaries of the presence of boozed-up out-of-towners with too much money in their pockets are, for the most part, providers of sleazy luxury. Though there are some reasonably priced local Super Bowl parties, there’s also decadent, decline-of-Rome style bashes – like the one sponsored by Shape and Men’s Fitness, which will be emceed by Jeffrey Ross, feature Mary J. Blige, and cost $1,500 to get into and the supermodel-studded Leather & Laces party, tickets for which will set you back at least $950. Those who wish to flaunt their wealth in even more disgustingly extravagant ways can always avail themselves of the Chatwal Hotel’s “World’s Most Expensive Tailgate,” where guests can drink 64-year-old Scotch and watch the game on a television that is – seriously – coated in gold and diamonds while presumably trading anecdotes about Swiss bank accounts and how to wash the blood of Third World orphans off of ostrich-leather seats in one’s private plane.
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The more down-to-earth Super Bowl tourists will, of course, be going to strip clubs, which have been preparing for a deluge of visitors – one fine establishment has just invested in the world’s tallest stripper pole. TMZ was all over this beat, of course:“We spoke to several Big Apple strip joints… and they all said the same thing – you can't have enough women in the clubs that weekend, 'cause with all the ballers coming to town, it's going to be INSANE. In fact, a rep for Scores – Howard Stern's favourite joint – tells us they're not just bringing in talent from across the country… they're flying in a bunch of chicks from Russia who've BEGGED for the chance to shake their asses for the richest pervs in America.”Hell yeah bro, hot Russian strippers! The downside to watching the chicks who’ve been flown in to shake their asses is being aware that with the Super Bowl comes a wave of human trafficking. A recent Washington Post article said that officials are “warning the public to watch for people who are forced into labour and individual pimps exerting control over young women and men who are oftentimes underage,” and quoted a anti-trafficking advocate named Danielle Douglas as saying that some tourists “are coming to the Super Bowl not even to watch football – they are coming to the Super Bowl to have sex with women and/or men or children.”The upside of all of this is that if you aren’t one of those awful sex slave–buying pieces of human filth, and if you have managed to buy a ticket to the game at a semi-reasonable price, and if you aren’t involved with a local government agency or business that is annoyed by the NFL’s Super Bowl policies and if the game isn’t postponed due to a sudden snowstorm, you’ll have a terrific football game to look forward to. Hopefully, not too many of the players end up with long-term brain damage.@HCheadle
