INDIANAPOLIS — As Christine Mills, the NFL’s director of events, opened the doors to Exhibit Hall D at the Indiana Convention Center, a completely new and vibrant world was on display.
Amid the many workers moving briskly to apply final touches on the 2012 NFL Experience were reminders of their labor — sides of wooden crates and rolls of tape lying on the cement floor and the continuous hum of forklifts moving to and from their assigned destinations.
Today, a total of eight such exhibit halls totaling 850,000 square feet are finished products as the NFL Experience, an interactive theme park celebrating its 20th year, entertains and educates football fans of all ages.
The NFL Experience is open today until 10 p.m. Saturday, the eve of Super Bowl XLVI. By then, Mills anticipates the event’s previous record of 200,000-plus visitors established in Glendale, Ariz., before Super Bowl XLII to have fallen by the wayside.
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