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	Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, is the site of Super Bowl on Feb. 5.

Super Bowl XLVI lands in Indianapolis

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January 25, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS — Tickets may be tough to come by for the National Football League’s Super Bowl XLVI, but there are ways to get involved with the event.

The New England Patriots and New York Giants play Feb. 5 at 63,000-seat Lucas Oil Stadium, which is being expanded to 68,000-plus for the NFL championship, according to an NFL spokesman. Tickets that are available are reportedly currently running from $2,000 to $15,000 apiece at ticket distributors.

But from Friday through Super Bowl Sunday, there are myriad group-friendly activities to enjoy things without being at the signature game itself. The Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee and  Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association are working hard to ensure that, too.

For instance, Super Bowl Village will transform the heart of downtown Indianapolis into a 10-day, three-block football festival along Georgia Street. The entry fee: free.

The village includes free concerts on the Pepsi Stage, Tailgate Town, Kinect NFL Play 60 Fan Dome, The Huddle at Circle Centre (an indoor warming hut), zipline rides, ice sculptures, street performers and entertainers, lights and pyrotechnics shows and appearances by the Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders. Also, an ESPN broadcast studio on site will be airing more than 110 hours of programming from Jan. 30 up to the Super Bowl.

	Photo: Indianapolis CVA
	Downtown Indianapolis is the hub for activities leading up to the Super Bowl, which is Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium.

In addition, The NFL Experience presented by GMC runs Friday through Feb. 4, an interactive pro football theme park with games, displays, entertainment, kids’ football clinics, free autograph sessions and a memorabilia show at the Indiana Convention Center.  Admission is $25 for adults, $20 for children 12 years old and younger and free for children younger than 2 years old. Group packages are available for groups with 25 or more people.

In central Indiana, 17 communities — including Indianapolis’ Broad Ripple, Fountain Square, Indiana Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue (Mass Ave), Keystone Crossing and Lafayette Square (International Marketplace) locales — have been named Super Celebration Sites.

For instance, a temporary ice rink is being installed in northwest suburban Zionsville for its part.

Other participating Super Celebration Sites communities — some up to an hour away — include Anderson, Bloomington, Carmel, Columbus, Fishers, Greenfield, Greenwood-Franklin, Lafayette-West Lafayette, Muncie, Noblesville, Plainfield, Richmond and Shelbyville.

Besides, there are plenty of things beyond the Super Bowl activities that Indianapolis already offers. That includes Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its Hall of Fame Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Zoo, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, NCAA Hall of Champions and vibrant nightlife downtown and in neighborhoods across the city of 877,000 — in a metro area of about 1.7 million. 

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