The Latest: Even on Super Sunday, the stairs must be climbed

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — 4:55 p.m.

Chiefs defensive line coach Brendan Daly has a tradition of running the stairs inside the stadium before games, and not even fans trickling into Hard Rock Stadium or the perplexed Super Bowl security staff was stopping him Sunday.

About 3-1/2 hours before kickoff, Daly emerged from the tunnel to dutifully get his exercise in.

Daly started the routine with Patriots assistants Chad O'Shea and Brian Flores — now coach of the Miami Dolphins — when the trio was in New England. And when they reached the Super Bowl each of the past two seasons, they continued to run the stairs before the game.

Daly left the Patriots after last season to join coach Andy Reid's staff in Kansas City. The tradition continues with the Chiefs.

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4:40 p.m.

This is the 11th time that the Miami area has played host to the Super Bowl. The first five were at the now-demolished Orange Bowl in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, and the other six have been in Miami Gardens — inside the building now called Hard Rock Stadium.

Scroll through the list of Super Bowl sites, though, and it might seem like South Florida has a lot of stadiums.

It’s not true, but the confusion can be understandable. Each of the last five Super Bowls in Miami Gardens have been with the stadium bearing a different name: Joe Robbie Stadium in 1995, then Pro Player Stadium in 1999, Dolphin Stadium in 2007, Sun Life Stadium in 2010 and now, Hard Rock.

The stadium has had nine different names in all since opening in 1987. In addition to the five names that it had as a Super Bowl host, there was Pro Player Park, Dolphins Stadium (which immediately preceded Dolphin Stadium), Land Shark Stadium and, for a six-month stretch of 2016, it was called New Miami Stadium.

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4:25 p.m.

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