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May 21, 2007

Indianapolis Prepares to Make
Super Bowl Presentation
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=23449
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Excerpt:

Members of Indianapolis 2011, Inc. and
the Indianapolis Colts are in Nashville, Tenn.
today as they prepare to present their bid
tomorrow to National Football League own-
ers to host the 2011 Super Bowl.

A decision is expected to be announced
around 2 p.m. Indianapolis time Tuesday.

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May 21, 2007

Super Bowl Organizers
Look Forward to 2011
http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=487849
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Excerpt:

There's a lot left to do before next February's
Super Bowl kicks off in Glendale, but the
game's organizers are already looking ahead
to 2011.

Tomorrow the Arizona delegation will meet
with all 32 NFL team owners in Nashville,
Tennessee to present the State's bid for the
2011 Super Bowl.

Glendale is trying to get into a fairly regular
rotation for the Super Bowl, that includes
cities like Miami and San Diego.

Arizona will be bidding against Indianapolis
and Dallas, both with new stadiums on the
way.

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May 21, 2007

One Super salesman has a deal
the NFL shouldn't refuse
http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/gil_lebreton/story/109508.html
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Excerpts:

The attitudes, to begin with, are strikingly
different.

You have Indianapolis, the hopeful Super
Bowl host with the cold hands and the warm
heart.

You have Phoenix, already assured of host-
ing a Super Bowl this coming season, bid-
ding for 2011 just to remind the NFL that,
like the Dr Pepper commercial, it wants it
all.

And you have Jerry Jones and the Dallas
Cowboys, who not only want it all, but also
are firmly convinced that they are entitled
to it.

So, who gets Super Bowl XLV when NFL
owners vote Tuesday in Nashville?

....

When Owner Jones first approached the
citizens of Arlington, asking them to fund
in part the greatest sporting arena since
the Roman Colosseum -- I'm paraphrasing
Jerry here, but just a little -- the promise of
hosting future Super Bowls was very much
a part of the hard sell.

....

If you build it, the NFL's big game will come,
Owner Jones promised. And he has no inten-
tion of betraying that promise.

But how could Jones be certain? When the
NFL sits down to vote, history tells us, logic
sometimes leaps from an opened window.

....

Where and whether North Texas fits into the
mix is up to the owners. Jones seems to think
that having the biggest dog in the fight (his
new stadium) will suffice.

He could well be right. The league likely sali-
vates at the prospect of having 25,000 more
tickets to sell in Jones' 100,000-seat stadium.

....

Of the three groups, the Arizona bid is the
biggest long shot. Of the three, the Glendale,
Ariz., stadium is the only one that is currently
open for business. It just doesn't make sense,
however, for the NFL to stage a Super Bowl
in the Phoenix area twice in four seasons.

That leaves Indianapolis and Arlington. The
Colts and the Cowboys. The son of The
Louse Who Moved the Baltimore Colts
against The Man Who Fired Tom Landry.

Let the morality play begin.

Don't dismiss Indy so easily. It might lack
Dallas' cosmopolitan self-assuredness,
but the city has been the host of five NCAA
basketball Final Fours. It successfully staged
the Pan-American Games in 1987 and has
been the site of numerous U.S. Olympic
Trials.

There's no Bourbon Street. During big events,
Indy's downtown restaurants and watering
holes can become frustratingly congested.

But it is just that -- the city's plan to stage
most of the Super Bowl events within a com-
pact, walkable area -- that Indianapolis sees
as one of its bid's strengths.

The North Texas proposal, on the other hand,
would spread Super Bowl practices, parties
and hotels from Arlington to Fort Worth, Grape-
vine, Irving and Dallas.

Some owners might not like that. Maybe they
like waiting in line for a table.

Its presence in the bid seemed to drive the
Dallas City Council crazy, but the Gaylord
Texan Convention Center in Grapevine
seems made to be an NFL Super Bowl
headquarters.

Indianapolis just doesn't have a single facil-
ity like it.

The vote remains a toss-up, from all indica-
tions.

Some petty owners will vote against the North
Texas bid, I suspect, just to keep the Super
Bowl money from going into Jerry Jones'
pockets.

We'll see.

The Super Bowl is coming to Tarrant County
sooner or later, just as Owner Jones prom-
ised.

I can give the owners 100,000 reasons
-- seats in Jerry's new stadium -- why they
should just go ahead Tuesday and make it
official.

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