About 90 minutes before kickoff, one Levi’s Stadium stairwell was nearly full of spectators - who sat there to escape the sunshine and heat at their seats inside the stadium.
Navin Kunde of Livermore and Kash Yajnik of Pleasanton paid $500 each (through the NFL lottery) for their upper-level tickets in Section 402.
Nearby, fans encountered another problem: A crazy-long line to get into the NFL team store.
