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The San Francisco 49ers arrived at their first Super Bowl in 18 years on Sunday (27th January).

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With a team flag waving from an open window of their chartered plane, the San Francisco 49ers arrived at their first Super Bowl in 18 years on Sunday.

The players walked off the airplane in a low-key manner, no video recorders or cameras, no waves to onlookers.

Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, wearing a red wool cap sporting "49ers" on it, mouthed the words to a song on his head phones as he calmly walked on the tarmac.

Most of the team's veteran players left first, including centre Jonathan Goodwin who won a Super Bowl three years ago with the Saints.

The 49ers will play Baltimore next Sunday (3rd February), seeking their sixth Super Bowl crown, but first since the 1994 season.

The Ravens will arrive in New Orleans on Monday (28th January), no doubt with a similarly large police-escorted convoy transporting them to their accommodation.