Super Bowl LVII Diary: Hannah Wilkes takes you behind the scenes in Arizona for Kansas City Chiefs vs Philadelphia Eagles | NFL News

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Watch Super Bowl LVII from State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, live on Sky Sports NFL on Friday; AFC Chiefs Kansas City face NFC’s Philadelphia Eagles (kick-off, 11.30pm), with live coverage from 10pm

Super Bowl Sunday in Arizona takes place ahead of the big game between the Chiefs and Eagles on Sunday, live on Sky Sports NFL

Sky Sports NFL‘s Hannah Wilkes in Arizona for Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles on Saturday, bringing you a daily diary with all the best nuggets from behind the scenes in Arizona in the build up to the big game…

Opening Night in Arizona

Having arrived in Phoenix on Sunday afternoon, our Sky Sports crew are jet lagged, over-caffeinated and ready to go!

After a very distant Super Bowl two years ago, and a skeleton crew on the field in Los Angeles last year in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was great to have a full team back that week in Arizona as we progressed to the Super. Bowl LVII on Friday.

Neil Reynolds, Jeff Reinebold and Phoebe Schecter are all here, together with a couple of producers so that we are all on track and a duo of very camera guys making everything possible for TV (which is quite important, all things considered).

Super Bowl LVII works around Arizona

Jeff Reinebold, Neil Reynolds and Phoebe Schecter record the Inside The Huddle podcast at Radio Row in Arizona

After a rather lackluster first night, but there was a rather epic game of Cards Against Humanity with some of the crew, the first stop on Monday morning was ‘Radio Row’, where all the media around the world live that week, for an Inside the Huddle podcast recording, before seven intrepid explorers then braved the harsh landscape of the Arizona desert in search of TV gold … well, we went to the National Park to film Neil’s opening link for Sunday.

The ride has some mild danger scenes. It is usually a clear lesson that cactus nettles can be harmful. Who knows? (All fools).

Hannah Wilkes and the Sky Sports NFL team filmed out in the desert in Arizona during Super Bowl week

Next, ‘Opening Night’. For the first time since before the pandemic, the chaotic kick-off to the entire week of the spectacular Super Bowl is back in all its glory. However, there was a little hiccup with the credentials, so we couldn’t log in.

Coach Reinebold was the first to get an “access denied” message on the scanner, and oh how we laughed when he was put in the holding pen…that is until we all joined him.

Jeff Reinebold at the media accreditation jail before Opening Night Super Bowl week

Crisis averted by Producer Mase, thanks to the sprint through to the credential center, and we are soon in and among the open chaos of the night.

All the players from both teams are paraded on the stage, there are thousands of fans in the stands, and the media scrum to get the biggest name.

Things I learned; It turns out that Eagles safety CJ Gardner-Johnson is pretty good at pinning the tail on the donkey, while the Chiefs player indeed to Madden.

Watch Super Bowl LVII – Kansas City Chiefs vs Philadelphia Eagles – live on Sky Sports NFL and Main Event from 10pm on Sunday, February 12, with Ryan Fitzpatrick, Christian Wilkins and Efe Obada among the guests joined by Neil Reynolds and Hannah Wilkes in 90 minutes. build-up to a big game.