SAN FRANCISCO — Worried about your transportation to the Super Bowl? Here’s hoping you learn a lesson from Marcus Allen’s first experience.

The Los Angeles Raiders made Super Bowl XVIII in Allen’s second year in the NFL and he didn’t get much of a debriefing on the details of arriving for the game at Tampa Stadium.

“I’m a neophyte, right? It’s my first Super Bowl,” Allen said Tuesday. “I drive to the stadium in a rental car and I pull up to the parking attendant and I say, where do the players park? And she says, ‘If you don’t have a parking pass, you can’t get in.’ “

Allen thought she had to be kidding, but when she rebuffed his second attempt to talk his way into the lot, Allen and teammate Odis McKinney went to Plan B.

“We backed the car out,” Allen said. “I pulled it against the curb. We simultaneously looked at each other, not saying a word, we grabbed our bags and we got out and started running to the locker room. Until this day, I don’t know what happened to that car. That’s a true story.”