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National Football League owners today awarded Super Bowl XLVI (46 for all you non-Romans out there) to Indianapolis, which sweetened their proposal from a year ago, and beat out Glendale as the site for the world’s biggest sporting event.
That noise you hear is the collective groan from media, fans and generally everyone remotely close to the NFL who has a chance of attending Super Bowl XLVI. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the new Lucas Oil Stadium will be gorgeous. But the Super Bowl isn’t just about appeasing fans for 3 hours in a stadium, its a weeklong celebration of parties, expos, events, culture and weather. That’s right, I said weather. I’ve been to Indianapolis in March. In a word, miserable. I don’t imagine it will be any better the month before. After hearing the criticism from people/colleagues who have attended Super Bowl festivities in cities like Detroit, Minneapolis and Atlanta, I can tell you that the Super Bowl belongs in warm weather climates.
At least we can look forward to John (Cougar) Mellencamp singing “Little Pink Houses” during the halftime show.
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Tough Shit!
Let’s do a little math:
32 billionaire business men pick Indy.
1 AZ blogger with sour grapes in his mouth disagrees.
Who is right?
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Well Tommy, actually it was only 17 billionaire business men that picked Indy, and that was after the Indianapolis business community greased, umm I mean, pledged another $25 million to the cause. But hey, with global warming in effect, maybe by 2012 the temperature could reach the 50s.
Don’t forget they even played the game in Detroit!
The owners use the Superbowl leverage to help themselves built new stadiums with public money. I think we should know by now it’s more or less simply about money.
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