WATCH: Biggest News About the Big Game Was Off the Field

On this morning after, there is a lot being said about the Super Bowl and a lot of it not about the game.

Many people on social media are calling it a “Super Snooze.” A blowout of a game with the outcome that most had predicted, yet another win by the love-him-or-hate-him old man of NFL quarterbacks.

But after a year like 2020 and now the concerns in early 2021 about new strains of the virus and the challenges of trying to get everyone vaccinated quickly, a lot of what you see on social media this morning is about what happened off the field.

The NFL allowed 25-thousand fans in the stadium, among them 7,500 health care workers given free tickets. They gave all the fans COVID prevention packs with masks and hand sanitizers but some were seen without masks. And outside the stadium, many fans gathered around bars and restaurants before the game and swarmed the streets after the game.

As one observer put it, about the annual but unusual super spectacle, they honored health care workers and showed how much they care about them by packing a stadium with thousands of people during a pandemic.

And now public health officials are hoping their fears about the event becoming a super spreader don’t come true.

Not a good sign though was this story: Health officials say on the day of Super Bowl, Florida reported 200 variant COVID-19 cases and now has about 29% of the known variant cases in the country and has more variant cases than the entire country had Jan. 23, according to a report by the USA Today.

WATCH VIDEO BELOW on what happened after the game in Tampa.

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