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It's time for Dallas to look Super

After final bid Tuesday, bowl panel
will know if it's won biggest game

01:05 AM CDT on Sunday, May 20, 2007

By JEFF MOSIER / The Dallas Morning News
jmosier@dallasnews.com

ARLINGTON – Six months of hard work, back-
room deals and civic cheerleading have all led
up to a 20-minute, high-stakes sales pitch of
a lifetime.

Two of the Dallas Cowboys' biggest names –
retired quarterback Roger Staubach and owner
Jerry Jones – will have less time than it takes
to play a half of football to land Super Bowl XLV.

The face-to-face presentation Tuesday at the
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., will
give North Texas its first chance ever to host
America's most popular and lucrative sporting
event.

"All I know is it's going to be short and sweet."
Mr. Staubach said last week. "We're limited in
what we're going to be able to do at that meet-
ing. The good news is they're going to make
the decision that day. We'll know Tuesday
if we have it or not."

....

The only barriers are a room full of NFL team
owners, and the cities of Indianapolis and
Glendale, Ariz., which are also seeking the
2011 Super Bowl.

....

[North Texas Bid]

Texas Christian University in Fort Worth was
recommended as the practice facility for the
AFC, which would stay at the Omni, a conven-
tion center hotel under construction in down-
town Fort Worth.

Billy Bob's Texas is the recommended site
for the media party.

The NFC representative could practice at the
Cowboys' Valley Ranch facility in Irving and
stay at a Las Colinas hotel.

Arlington would host the game, "all game-day
hospitality" and the credentials center. Produc-
tion staff would probably be housed in some
of Arlington's limited-service hotels.

....

Mr. Staubach said he hopes the presentation
will go well enough to not only land the 2011
Super Bowl but also put the new Cowboys
stadium in a regular rotation for the big game,
which usually includes warm-weather cities like
Miami and New Orleans.

"I'm hoping Dallas will not only have a chance
at this one and, if we do what we're capable
of doing, we'll get a chance to do it again," he
said. "There's not a city that we've talked to
that would not want to have the Super Bowl
back."

Staff writers Rick Gosselin and Bruce
Tomaso contributed to this report.

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COMPARING THE CONTENDERS

INDIANAPOLIS

City population: 784,000, regional population
1.7 million.

Number of area hotel rooms: 29,000 (31,500
by 2010).

Biggest sporting events: No previous Super
Bowls; host to the two largest single-day sport-
ing events in the world – Indianapolis 500 and
Allstate 400 at the Brickyard – the largest For-
mula One race in the world – United States
Grand Prix – and the largest drag racing event
in the world NHRA U.S. Nationals.

Mass transit: Bus service, no rail.

Stadium: Lucas Oil Stadium, $675 million (esti-
mated), maximum capacity 70,000, opens 2008.

Host committee budget: $20 million to $25 million
(estimated), private funds.

February mean temperature: 31.

GLENDALE, ARIZ.

City population: 240,000, regional population
4 million.

Number of area hotel rooms: 55,000.

Biggest sporting events: Host to Super Bowl XLII
in 2008; home to the Fiesta Bowl, part of the NCAA
Bowl Championship Series.

Mass transit: Bus service, no rail.

Stadium: University of Phoenix Stadium, $456
million, maximum capacity, 73,000-plus, opened
2006.

Host committee budget: $15 million, private funds
and some sales tax.

February mean temperature: 58.

ARLINGTON

City population: 364,000, regional population
6 million.

Number of area hotel rooms: 90,000.

Biggest sporting events: No previous Super
Bowls; Arlington hosted 1995 Major League
Baseball All-Star Game; Fort Worth hosts na-
tion's second largest NASCAR and Indy car
races, trailing only Indianapolis; Dallas hosted
World Cup soccer matches in 1994.

Mass transit: None in Arlington; North Texas
has some of the nation's busiest light-rail
lines.

Stadium: Unnamed Dallas Cowboys stadium,
$1 billion (estimated), maximum capacity, 100,000,
opens 2009.

Host committee budget: $20 million to $30 million
(estimated), private funds and some sales tax.

February mean temperature: 49.

SOURCE: Dallas Morning News research

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