Each year tens of thousands of people travel to one designated U.S. city to watch the nation's current top two football teams battle for the Lombardi Trophy.
How does having so many visitors impact a city? Does it increase travel time?
Follow along below with Jackie, Lynn, Mike, and Kevin to see how traffic in Minneapolis on the day of The Big Game compared to traffic in the city the previous Sunday.
All people and scenarios are hypothetical.
Jackie, a junior at the University of Minnesota traveled back to campus after returning a book to the public library downtown.
Based on average travel times for both days, her trip would likely have taken about 30 seconds longer this Sunday compared to if she'd returned the book a week earlier.
Lynn, a huge Prince fan, is visiting Minneapolis for the first time and is trying to visit as many of the related landmarks as possible.
On average, the trip between the Purple Rain House, the home of the Kid, Prince's character in Purple Rain, and Paisley Park, Prince's former production complex turned museum is estimated to have taken her only 50 seconds longer on the day of the big game compared to the week before.
Mike, an insurance agent who attended a conference in Minneapolis over the weekend and took a cab to the airport on Sunday afternoon to fly home.
He expected to run into a lot of game day traffic, so he left plenty of time to spare. He was surprised; however, to find that the big game didn't impact his route as much as he'd expected with the trip only taking an average of 37 seconds longer than the week before.
Kevin was on his evening run, around 8:00 PM, when he slipped on some ice in front of the Target Center and broke his wrist. Rather than call an ambulance, Kevin jumped in a cab and headed to the ER.
Had he fallen later in the evening, his trip to the ER could have taken up to 8 minutes and 23 seconds. But given the time that he fell, his trip was projected to be 14 seconds shorter than it would have been at the same time the week before.