{"id":220413,"date":"2016-02-09T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220413"},"modified":"2016-02-09T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:00:16","slug":"saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan football fans tune in to Super Bowl 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-220413 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl1\/'>superbowl1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220418'>\n\t\t\t\tSpectators at Tribes Bar celebrate after the Carolina Panthers scored a touchdown against the Denver Broncos in yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl 50.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl2\/'>superbowl2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220419'>\n\t\t\t\tBroncos fans pose for a photo at Naked Fish during the halftime show.\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl3\/'>superbowl3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220420'>\n\t\t\t\tDJ Dice, left, and MARPAC\/Budweiser\u2019s Ray Alvarez lead the awarding of raffle prizes to spectators at Best Sunshine Live.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl4\/'>superbowl4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220421'>\n\t\t\t\tSpectators at Best Sunshine Live watch the halftime show.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl5\/'>superbowl5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220422'>\n\t\t\t\tFiesta Resort &amp; Spa employees pose with one of the winners of their raffle prizes.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl6\/'>superbowl6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220423'>\n\t\t\t\tJuan Blanco participates in the football throw at Pacific Islands Club\u2019s Charley\u2019s Cabaret.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/saipan-football-fans-tune-in-to-super-bowl-50\/superbowl7\/'>superbowl7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-220424'>\n\t\t\t\tSpectators at Chambre Bar of Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan celebrate after the Broncos scored.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Count Saipan football fans to the estimated 189 million people who watched yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl 50 as they trooped the various bars and restaurants on island to root for eventual champions Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. <\/p>\n<p>Some took a leave from work just to see how the Broncos\u2019 defense crushed the Panthers en route to a 24-10 win, others sneaked in for a quarter or two, and one brought his entire family for good food and happy crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my first time to watch in five years and I made sure I will be able to go out with my friends and enjoy the game by filing a leave of absence from work as early as November last year,\u201d said Juan Camacho, who cheered for the Panthers and came with a friend that just took a few hours from work to catch the action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Cam Newton\u2026he beat by favorite college team (Oregon State),\u201d added Camacho, who watched the match at Tribes Bar.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the Charley\u2019s Cabaret of Pacific Islands Club, Rex Palacios was also with some friends and preferred seeing Super Bowl away from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re here with your friends, you can cheer as loud as you want. There\u2019s no wife to tell you to calm down and keep quiet,\u201d a smiling Palacios said.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 packed the Charley\u2019s Cabaret and they included schoolmates Abbas Shakir and Juan Blanco, who are both supporters of the Broncos. They\u2019ve been watching Super Bowl for the past several years with Juan taking a cue from his dad John, a Commonwealth Football League official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching football, especially the Super Bowl, gives me more idea how to play the game and become a better player. I also get to spend time with friends,\u201d Juan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more interesting and exciting to watch Super Bowl outside our home because it feels like we\u2019re actually in the field, witnessing every plays,\u201d Shakir said.<\/p>\n<p>Len Sablan, an MMA practitioner, was also among the spectators at  PIC, and said football is harder than his sport as he saw how the Broncos defense ganged up on Newton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are coming everywhere and you don\u2019t know who is going to hit you, unlike in MMA, you have only one opponent,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rico Morales, watching Super Bowl means introducing the sport he likes to his daughter Stephanie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted to come with me and see how the game is played. She is curious on why a lot of people are interested in watching Super Bowl. If we will watch it at home, it may bore her, so I decided it\u2019s better to bring her here,\u201d said Morales, who was at Naked Fish.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Guerrero was also at Naked Fish, tagging along with him his wife and kid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got nothing more interesting to do at home, so it\u2019s better to spend it here, enjoy the game, and meet old friends,\u201d Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan\u2019s Chambre Bar, World Resort\u2019s Red Box, and Best Sunshine Live also hosted Super Bowl 50 and drew sizeable crowd, which they treated not only to good food, but also with some raffle prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Lizama was among the lucky winners at Best Sunshine Live, bringing home a cooler from MARPAC\/Budweiser. Fiesta gave away brunch and dinner certificates and products from its sponsor Pacific Trading, Co.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came here to see the facility for the first time and watch Super Bowl. I enjoyed the food and the crowd and it\u2019s just a bonus to win in the raffle draw, plus Manning\u2019s team won. I wanted to see the guy (Manning), a future Hall of Famer, win the Super Bowl in what could be his swan song,\u201d  Lizama said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count Saipan football fans to the estimated 189 million people who watched yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":220418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6320,42,1612,1613],"class_list":["post-220413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-best-sunshine-live","tag-food","tag-naked-fish","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}