There is fashionably late and then there is fashionably late for the Super Bowl at $14,000 for VIP seats, which was the level of cool attained by Dr. Juergen Pichler Levine, who walked in midway through the first quarter.
“Our private jet arrived late,” said Dr. Pichler Levine, who came from Houston with his buddy Jim Gantt, two Broncos fans ab oard a Falcon 10 that got stuck in a holding pattern above San Jose’s airport.
[...] late that security screeners were sitting down and had to muster up energy to search them.
[...] late they missed the first points, scored by their Broncos on a field goal.
For a standard 49ers game at Levi’s Stadium, “people come late all the time,” said an usher named Tammy.
Sure enough right after the Blue Angels flyover, a father and son came bolting through security like it was last call for a commercial flight.
[...] Thorson could not get past the stadium perimeter without a ticket, and McKinney was not about to go outside for fear that neither one would make it back in.
[...] a second hero arrived in the person of security man Derrick Washington in a gold 49ers jacket.
“I’m going to die if I don’t go back inside,” were the final words to his friend through the cell phone before he headed up the escalator.
To see a video of fan John McKinney describing how he scored a free ticket, go to sfchron.cl/ticket.
Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
