Boston police force will be on streets on Super Bowl Sunday [View all]

Boston Police officers may be unique when it comes to the New England Patriots and the team’s repeated Super Bowl appearances - most have never seen a game as it happened. And this year, when the team is going for its fifth NFL championship, it won’t be any different.

Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said Tuesday he plans a “full call up’’ on Sunday when the Patriots play the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI in Houston, meaning the entire department will be on the city’s streets.

Evans said he is a subscriber to the NFL Network Red Zone and usually spends Sunday afternoons and into Sunday evenings watching football with his two sons. But he has not attended a Super Bowl party for years, and neither have large numbers of his fellow officers.

The only way his officers will be able to see the game live, he said is if they peer through the window of a bar while the game is being played Sunday night.

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