The lead-up to Las Vegas' first ever Super Bowl... That's this week on Nevada Week.

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-Welcome to Nevada Week.

I'm Amber Renee Dixon joining you from Allegiant Stadium, site of Super Bowl LVIII between the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.

This is also the site of Super Bowl's opening night.

There are 6,000-plus members of the media accredited to cover the big game.

Many of them are here.

And this is the only public appearance that players are making ahead of the Super Bowl.

There is only one player from Nevada playing in the big game, and that is the man behind me, Wide Receiver Brandon Aiyuk of the 49ers.

We spoke with him about growing up in Reno, about the importance of wearing a Cameroonian flag on the back of his helmet as he is of Cameroonian descent, and about the growth of professional sports in Nevada.

(Brandon Aiyuk) It's the place where I grew up.

It's a place where I fell on my face and place where I got up.

It's a place where I met lifetime friends.

It's a place where I fell in love with playing football.

It's a place where I have a bunch of family now still today.

So I'm excited that they're getting the love that they deserve here in these past couple of weeks.

-Just being a kid getting in trouble, you know, little stuff.

Shout-out to the NFL and to our equipment for allowing us to do that, because I felt like that was a super cool part of the league that we got to add this season.

It's been fun to wear it throughout the season and to get to wear it one more time on the biggest days.

It's exciting.

It's fun.

Is it-- are the A's coming?

-Supposedly.

-Supposedly.

That'd be cool too.

That would be cool too.

I think it was exciting.

I was in Reno when I think Vegas, when the hockey team, the Knights, right, when they won.

So that was exciting.

And I don't know, hopefully people get started looking at Nevada as a professional hub for athletes and more stuff like big events like the Super Bowl.

[cheers and applause] -On the Chiefs' side of the ball, we got to talk with Kansas City Tight End Travis Kelce, better known to some as Taylor Swift's boyfriend.

She is coming off making some history.

Now she has won four Grammys for Album of the Year.

Travis and the Chiefs are attempting to make history of their own, trying to become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls since the Patriots did it back in 2004.

We asked him about that as well as about a Vegas wedding.

(Travis Kelce) I've been on a mission ever since I won my first Super Bowl.

We made it back to the Super Bowl the year after 2019, obviously lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

That's motivated me to get back to this point right here.

You'll hear me say this a lot, but I want this one more than I've ever wanted a Super Bowl in my life.

It's because the type of team we have, the people we have, but also because that tier of teams that have done it twice have gone down in history as some of the greats.

She's unbelievable.

She's rewriting the history books herself.

I told her I'll have to hold up my end of the bargain and come home with some hardware too.

-It's similar to playing in front of my family.

It's, you know, they're the reason why I do play.

They're the reason why I go out there and play with such excitement.

My family has given me the tools and the love for sports in this game.

To be able to go out there and represent them and give them something to cheer for, it's the best feeling.

-I've been to a Vegas wedding.

Vegas weddings are out of control.

Absolutely insane.

I don't know if I'll ever have a Vegas wedding.

-Now, athletes weren't the only celebrities at Super Bowl Opening Night.

We also ran into longtime Las Vegas Prop Comic Carrot Top.

Carrot Top, what brings you to Super Bowl Opening Night?

(Carrot Top) I don't know what's happening.

Is there a game in town?

No, it's exciting.

Being in Vegas and living here and having the Super Bowl come here for the first time, I've never done something like this, and I've never been this close to-- I've always seen on TV where they've interview on media day.

So we're sitting literally right there.

It's very exciting.

It's cool.

I don't know how I got invited.

Thank you whoever invited me.

-Do you plan on asking any questions?

-I have a question for all-- well, I have a different question for each person.

I was gonna ask Coach Reid when the Raiders had a play in their, in their game called "Carrot Top," an actual play, it was-- you could actually hear the quarterback like, "Carrot Top, Carrot Top!"

I would ask him if maybe he would consider maybe having a Carrot Top play for the Chiefs.

Maybe that might be the play that takes him and wins the Super Bowl.

-What did that make you feel like, learning the Raiders had a play called Carrot Top?

-Unbelievable.

I hoped it worked.

I said, I hope the play did good.

And they said, no, it worked like four out of five times.

So better than any dentist, right?

Four out of five times.

So yeah, it worked good.

It was great, though.

Who would think you'd ever hear "Carrot Top, Carrot Top"?

-Hey, speaking of Coach Reid, he has red hair, you have red hair.

He has blamed when he gets angry in the past on his red hair.

Do you understand that?

I do.

They always say readheaded people have hot tempers.

And he's a coach for God's sake.

So he, he does pretty good.

He could hide under the mustache, right?

He could like, a mustache, you can't even see him.

He's a good coach.

He's a nice guy, seems like a nice guy, the kind of guy you want to have a beer with.

-Last thing: Congratulations on extending your residency to 2030 in Las Vegas.

What has this city meant to your career?

-Everything in the world.

I've been very lucky to have even one year in this town.

We did the first year, then three years, and then end up looking back and now we're gonna be here 20-- almost, yeah, something like 30 years in Vegas.

And at the Luxor alone, 18 of them.

So it's been amazing.

And they just signed another 5 years, so we're excited.

-Good for you.

Carrot Top, thank you.

-Yes, thanks PBS.

Thank you guys.