Super Bowl 2024: Taylor Swift wraps up her own preparations before the big game, as the Chiefs and 49ers complete their final practice sessions before the NFL’s biggest stars get ready to take center stage in Las Vegas. The fire alarms came first, then the practice fields. The San Francisco 49ers, who had to win 20 games to go to the Super Bowl, could be up against their most cunning opponent yet when they get ready to play the Kansas City Chiefs — some early-morning shenanigans in Las Vegas. The fire alarms came first, then the practice fields. The San Francisco 49ers, who had to win 20 games to go to the Super Bowl, could be up against their most cunning opponent yet when they get ready to play the Kansas City Chiefs — some early-morning shenanigans in Las Vegas.
A fire alarm at the team hotel on Thursday morning startled the 49ers players out of their sleep and dampened a couple of their spirits. The two All-Pro teammates who seemed the most irritated by the interruption, according to George Kittle, were Christian McCaffrey and Nick Bosa. Kittle claimed he was awakened seven minutes before his alarm was supposed to go off.
Later in the day, when questioned about it, Kittle responded, “It had to be them.” “You wish not to awaken theMcCaffrey quickly clarified that the fire alarm wasn’t a typo.
“I don’t think it’s random,” he stated. That’s a component of it. Simply said, additional wood is being added to the fire.
Bosa reiterated his assertion, stating, “I’m sure somebody did it.” The defensive end continued by bringing up a comparable experience he had in Philadelphia, where a late-night construction project near the team’s hotel had disturbed his sleep.
“A six o’clock in the morning fire alarm? For what purpose? Deebo Samuel, a talented wide receiver, remarked, “I didn’t understand that.” That infuriated me a little bit. I tell the truth.Security Tashaun Gipson went so far as to remark that the disturbance made practice later that day a little more challenging. He claimed he had never seen so many drowsy faces in the morning as he did on Thursday.
Following the fire alarm on Thursday, Gipson remarked, “Practice seemed a little harder.” “Our bodies felt a little worn out, but I believe we’ll make up for lost sleep today. Shout out to whoever did that. Well done. Whoever pulled that prank is very clever.Not only is a lack of sleep having an adverse effect on the 49ers’ workouts, but this week’s extremely soft surface at UNLV, where the team is practicing in advance of the Super Bowl, has been a topic of discussion among coaches and players from San Francisco. Shanahan had stated earlier in the week that the group would not be moving.
Although there are occasions when a fire alarm raises suspicions of mischief (the NFL RedZone studio experienced a false alarm of their own in November), big game preparation-related pranks have become a nearly yearly NFL tradition. Here are a few noteworthy examples of pregame interruptions in the past few years:Uninvited contractors were the surprise visitors when Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell returned home a few hours after the team’s heartbreaking Week 17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. According to Fox Sports, the day following Detroit’s defeat, someone gave contractors Campbell’s home information and requested them to come early to make unnecessary repairs.
But Campbell and the Lions overcame the setback to win the final game of the regular season and, the following week, record the team’s first postseason triumphs in more than thirty years.The New York Giants woke up on January 21, 2023, a week after winning their first playoff game in eleven years, with the goal of upsetting the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round. But a burst pipe in the New York hotel disrupted the morning shower rituals of visiting Giants players who were used to doing so. Giants supporters and former players accused their divisional opponents of dirty play without delay. The Pittsburgh Steelers players were awakened in the early hours of January 22, 2017, the morning of the AFC Championship Game, by a triggered fire alarm at their Boston hotel. Just before four in the morning, Boston Fire Department personnel came, and a few hours later, a suspect was taken into custody.
Dennis Harrison, a 25-year-old New England Patriots fan, admitted to authorities that he was intoxicated. I am a moron. I support the Pats.
The Patriots proceeded to overcome the Steelers and make it to Super Bowl LI, where they triumphed over the Atlanta Falcons in a thrilling comeback.In the midst of the Deflategate scandal and with many fans still hung over from the previous year’s Spygate incident in New England, a fire alarm that prompted a partial evacuation of the Chiefs’ hotel during the 2016 playoffs was met with immediate skepticism. Even though the Chiefs—who were lodging in Providence, Rhode Island—were not yet the dominant team they would become, doubters were prepared to add another question mark to the Patriots’ eventual victory.
It was eventually revealed, though, that a triggered alarm from someone smoking within the hotel, rather than a pulled fire alarm, was the reason behind the evacuations.The Patriots players had experienced their own early fire alarm a year prior. The Patriots were awakened before Super Bowl XLIX by a false alarm going off in the players’ wing of the hotel at two in the morning. This was the second instance of a false alert in that section of the hotel that week.
Patriots players Rob Gronkowski and Tom Brady, who is also a known sleeper, slept through it the second time.
“I’m not aware of it. Brady remarked that week, “It must be sleeping through it, so that’s good.” “My sleep was excellent.” A few days later, the Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks.
