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On Super Bowl game day, a time out in a quiet Boston

Quiet city awaited those who aren’t football fans

By Mary Carmichael

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 06, 2012

Jerry Looper knows readers may subject him to unnecessary roughness for this, but here goes: he doesn’t follow the Patriots. “There are so many other things I’d rather do,’’ he said. That might explain why he was out about at game time yesterday - one of few Bostonians on the streets. With the city glued to its collective TV set, shops and restaurants around the city were deserted. Some didn’t even bother to stay open, sending employees home so they too could watch the game.

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