SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Sitting atop a Peninsula, San Francisco tends to get most of the credit for hosting Sunday’s Super Bowl LX between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.
The Cool Gray City of Love, as local author Gary Kamiya called San Francisco, steals most of the Super Bowl thunder with posh parties, celebrity sightings and a massive fan experience in its sprawling Moscone Convention Center close by downtown.

The game, however, is played about 50 miles south of San Francisco in the Silicon Valley hub of Santa Clara, California. And the city next door, San Jose, is hosting a week’s worth of events that included the Super Bowl’s opening night on Monday.
Those are two cities which often take a back seat to San Francisco in the public eye, but maybe not this year.
“We play a major role, and much more significant than we did a decade ago,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in an interview with Reuters, referring to the last time Levi’s Stadium hosted the NFL championship game.