Statalyzer
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If it was really just a safety thing, it would take more than 24 hours to secure the city (plus there's a safety downside to having an extra 50,000 people downtown instead of all within the stadium). But they know that postponing to the weekend would be too inconvenient - so they are already ok with a meaningful amount of compromise on safety for the sake of convenience, or at least the sake of less inconvenience than otherwise. Suggesting that the decision is actually primarily about optics.