Are you the proud owner of a Super Bowl 54 program?
If so, don’t put it in your luggage if you’re traveling through Miami International Airport or Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
The TSA agents stop you — and it’s not because they want to leaf through a keepsake.
The program’s metallic material could trigger a “thorough inspection of your bags,” according to FLL.
Programs from #SuperBowl are cool, just not in your checked baggage. The metallic material in the program could trigger a thorough inspection of your bags. Help us help you transition smoothly through #FLL by carrying that program with you and placing it in a separate bin. pic.twitter.com/EnrDqe8gKf
— Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Int'l Airport (FLL) (@FLLFlyer) February 1, 2020
Trust us, you — and the rest of the passengers in line — can’t afford the delay. The airports are expecting heavy congestion, with more than 90,000 people flying out of Miami.
Instead, place the program in your carry-on bag and take it out once you arrive at the TSA checkpoint. Both airports say you should place it in its own bin to avoid possible delays.
Once it passes through TSA, you should put it back in your carry-on. You don’t want to accidentally leave the memento behind.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
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