Evidence comes from this Brookline supermarket, where Nomi Burstein shows us the paucity of salsa around 3:40 p.m. (also from the parking lot of the Roche Bros. in West Roxbury, which was even more crowded than usual around the same time, no, really, it was so crowded at least one local editor and his wife just gave up and drove to the Dedham Stop & Shop).
As has become usual in the City of Champions, Boston Police will once again set up cordons around the two sports-focused areas to prevent any massive knuckleheadedness, this time at the end of the third quarter of the Super Bowl. Read more.
Super Liquors is, of course, conveniently located on Truman Parkway in Hyde Park.
A student at UMass Amherst is making a federal case out of the way the school promptly expelled him as part of a new crackdown on rioting after sporting events.
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in US District Court in Boston, Cullen Roe charges the expulsion violates his 14th Amendment right to due process because officials ordered him out without even the disciplinary hearing he says is required by the school conduct code.
Jay Fitzgerald contemplates the controversy surrounding Steve DeOssie and his pre-Super Bowl denunciation of the Pats:
The most annoying thing, besides his bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you behavior: The thick New York accent he employed.
Massachusetts health officials notified about measles carrier at Super Bowl festivities.
Workers at the Panera on High Street downtown are all wearing Giants Super Bowl shirts today to settle a bet their manager made with his counterpart at a Panera in New York.
"That's got to suck," I told the guy who took my order. "Yeah, I'm a loyal Patriots fan," he allowed.
BPD command post tonight. Photo by BPD.
At 7:14, Max Voelker tweeted:
BPD Motorcycle Police as well as NUPD patrolling campus already.
At 7:50 p.m., Brian D'Amico tweeted:
7 K9s outside my building, numerous SWAT teams, another spec ops cycle unit down the road. And that's just around campus.
S. Ryder shows all the police forces represented at Northeastern:
Boston Police say anybody not ensconced in a bar in those areas by the time Madonna starts to sing on Sunday will be turned away from the area. And people who are in a bar who leave after she starts belting it out will be escorted out of the area.
UPDATE: Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says memo is misleading; people can't be arrested just for being outside; a Northeastern official agrees. More in the comments.
Residents of at least a couple of Northeastern dorms got a warning tonight from college Residential Life: Don't even think about going outside during or after the Super Bowl:
100 plus mug toting "green" football fans will gather at the Milky Way Lounge and Lanes in Jamaica Plain (403 Centre Street) Super Bowl Sunday at 6:00 PM to watch the Super Bowl on the Milky Ways'big screen. They will enjoy frosty beverages in their favorite mugs, great food, and have their "Mug Shots" taken. RSVP appreciated at http://going.com/mugsuperbowl
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