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Congrats, Your City Gets to Host the Super Bowl. The Party’s 40 Miles Away.

The game is in San Jose’s backyard but locals say San Francisco is having all the fun; ‘another Charlie Brown–with-the-football moment.’

Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara has the game but most of the sanctioned events leading up to it are in San Francisco. Kirby Lee/Imagn Images/Reuters

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Do you know the way to San Jose? Some here think the NFL doesn’t.

The city’s more glamorous cousin, San Francisco, ended up with the lion’s share of official Super Bowl week activities. This despite San Francisco being 40 miles north of Levi’s Stadium, where the game will be played, while San Jose is next door.

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