
Kids Day at Super Bowl Experience
Clip: Season 6 Episode 31 | 6m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Maria Silva meets the kids who are the first to play at Super Bowl Experience.
Maria Silva meets the kids who are the first to play at Super Bowl Experience and shows the fun is there for people of all ages.
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Kids Day at Super Bowl Experience
Clip: Season 6 Episode 31 | 6m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Maria Silva meets the kids who are the first to play at Super Bowl Experience and shows the fun is there for people of all ages.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAs for Las Vegas, about 330,000 people are expected to come here for the big game.
And when they are here, they'll get to take part in the NFL experience described as an NFL playground.
♪Our Maria Silva gives us a tour.
All right, guys, tell me, what school are you from?
Beatty Elementary school.
All right, Jacoby, go along.
Ready?
Go up.
God.
I didn't know I could throw.
And that was an intro.
All right, so you've had the chance at.
Nice job to do the obstacle course.
Give me your name.
And what did you think of the obstacle course?
I'm Emma And I like the obstacle course.
My name is Arona.
And about it.
It was so awesome.
I like this place and it's very cool.
My name is Elise and we did a lot of fun stuff like catching the football and going through obstacles.
It's really fun.
My name is Carly and We were pretty much like running in and catching the football.
Everybody, let's do NFL play 60 kids day.
Okay?
Three, two, one NFL DAY!
Yay!
So proud of you guys.
What do you want to say?
This place is awesome.
You should come here.
If your son goes or daughter goes to a school, you should definitely offer them to go here.
This is awesome.
And what's your name?
Angel.
All right, Angel.
All right, guys, Everybody go long.
Somebody catch 1500 kids from different schools from all Southern Nevada are here taking part in this.
And I'm bringing in my friend Megan Mendoza with at the NFL.
Let's talk about what's going on.
This is so cool.
Opening it up before it opens up to the public.
1500 kids.
Yes.
So we had NFL play 60 Kids Day.
And it's an experience, almost like a field trip.
And it has to do with our Play 60 initiative to get kids active for 60 minutes a day, teach them about healthy nutrition.
But as you can see behind me, they're doing football skills and drills.
They're working with NFL players, doing the skills and drills, and they're just having a really good time.
I'm hearing that there might also be a play 60 super kid around here.
Okay, so his name is Brandon.
He's our NFL play 60 Super kid from Special Olympics and he's going to be delivering the game ball at the top of the third quarter to start Super Bowl, the game and the second half.
And I'm also hearing that there might be another special surprise happening today.
Yes.
So in a few moments, there's going to be a surprise Super Bowl ticket giveaway with the Special Olympics coach and Brandon our play 60 super kids going to be helping deliver those tickets to the Special Olympics.
Coach, let's talk a little bit about this whole area.
I mean, there's so much to see and so much to do and for adults and kids.
And like I said, the kids big kids at heart.
Yeah.
So this is a Super Bowl experience who are hosting it.
It's at Mandalay Bay South Convention Center.
Come down here till Saturday, I believe, and enjoy a bunch of NFL themed See the Vince Lombardi trophy.
You can actually do the skills and drills here and come.
It's like an NFL field trip over here.
I'm also saying there's some bling around here, rings and even SpongeBob.
Yeah, we've got a Nickelodeon activation space here.
The Super Bowl rings are here.
You can see all of them up to Super Bowl 57.
And then obviously, we'll find out who supported eight.
Is it really is all about the fan experience.
We were at opening night where we're being told that more than 23,000 fans were out there.
And I got to hang out with some very loyal fans.
I'm Susan Wall.
And I'm from Orange County and I'm rooting for San Francisco 40 niners and.
They shout out.
To Brad Purdy who is Mr. relevant his very relevant fans.
And my favorite team is Travis Kelce.
Patrick Mahomes.
All right.
Have you always been a football fan or judging from this lovely outfit, I have a feeling you're also a. Taylor Swift fan.
And I'm also a football fan.
I was a tomboy from day one.
I'm bringing you in because I think you're a Taylor Swift fan.
Well, I'm so excited for the city of Las Vegas hosting the first ever Super Bowl.
I'm excited for the Chiefs and the 49 ERs, but I'm so excited because Taylor Swift will be here Sunday at the Super Bowl.
yeah.
Her album drops in April, April 19th.
True fans there.
All right, give me your name.
Ron.
Why are you a KC fan?
Because Patrick Mahomes is the best.
All right.
49 years.
Fans here too.
We can get along.
We can be in the same room.
Give me your.
Name, where you're from and why you love the 40 niners.
My name is Andrew and I'm from Las Vegas.
And the reason why I love the 49 ers is like that.
I was actually like, kind of bored with it with I was born up of a nine year fan.
So it's it's been in my blood.
All right, guys, Who's winning the Super Bowl 40 niners!
40 niners!
Taylor Swift has, you know, it's something.
Interactive and fun.
I need to get in there and have some fun.
I'm all sitting up representing our Las Vegas Raiders, Jimmy G in the House.
All right, So if I'm doing this, I need to get a little competition going, right?
So I have Tanner and Blake.
You guys all right?
They're helping us out, all right?
Having a blast, sending it back to you in the studio.
Let's have some fun.
All right?
I know what that event is.
One of more than 30 community events that the Super Bowl hosted for Super Bowl week in Las Vegas.
I hope you enjoy your Super Bowl Sunday for Nevada Week.
I'm Amber Renee Dixon, and I'll see you next week on Nevada Week.
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