OT: Arizona plans to bid on 2011 Super Bowl

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Arizona plans to bid on 2011 Super Bowl

Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 15, 2006 12:00 AM


With a Super Bowl locked up for 2008, Arizona's football interests expect to once again bid for pro football's showcase game in 2011.

Arizona Cardinals Vice President Michael Bidwill said Arizona would submit a Super Bowl XLV bid this March during an NFL owners meeting. Bidwill made his comment during a Super Bowl Host Committee luncheon Tuesday attended by mayors across the Valley.

"It's our intention to explore this," Bidwill said after the meeting.

Host Committee Chairman Mike Kennedy described the process as "incredibly competitive" because "everybody wants it." NFL owners typically select a host city during their spring meeting.

Arizona' Super Bowl Committee is kicking into high gear planning events leading up to the Feb. 3, 2008, game at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. The NFL selected Tampa and south Florida as Super Bowl hosts for 2009 and 2010, respectively.

During the luncheon Frank Supovitz, National Football League's senior vice president of events, said cities that prepare early for the Super Bowl tend to get the biggest economic payoff.
 

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The stadium deserves SB's...many of them
The assclown owners however...do not.

Just another way for this sorry ownership to rake in the cash, without ever having to field a decent football product. :barf:
 
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"It's our intention to explore this," Bidwill said after the meeting.

Who does their PR?

It is our intention to explore this???


No crap.


How about...."Arizona offers a fantastic venue for the Super Bowl with our state of the art stadium and incredible weather in January (february). Plus, Arizona boasts a large variety of activities for Super Bowl attendees from seeing the amazing Grand Canyon to golfing at some of the premier courses in the nation. We plan to pursue this opportunity as hard as possible and hope to make Arizona a landscape for not only the 2008 and 2011 Super Bowl, but many, many more over the next few decades."

Can you undersell this any further?

Be-agressive. B-E, aggres-sive.....
 

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The stadium deserves SB's...many of them
The assclown owners however...do not.

Just another way for this sorry ownership to rake in the cash, without ever having to field a decent football product. :barf:


I might be mistaken here, but I don't believe the Cards benefit financially from having a SB in Glendale. TheTSA is the governing authority and they would be the ones handling this. Do the Cards get any financial benefit out of the Fiesta Bowl?
 

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I might be mistaken here, but I don't believe the Cards benefit financially from having a SB in Glendale. TheTSA is the governing authority and they would be the ones handling this. Do the Cards get any financial benefit out of the Fiesta Bowl?


Very little directly I believe. They probably get some money from concessions/parking, plus of course they do recieve about 3000 tickets to sell to season ticket holders.

More indirectly - they used the super bowl tickets to intice Club level holders to sign a long term ticket agreement for gaurenteed super bowl seats and could do that again with another super bowl on the line, every time the superbowl agrees to come here they can sell advertising space for a little more money because of the additional exposure and things like that.
 

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Jason is right

while there are financial benefits to the Cards from hosting the Superbowl, they are indirect -- and frankly swamped by the financial benefits they would get if they ever consistently won
 

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