For a record 10th time, the city of Miami will host the Super Bowl this season. However, the NFL isn’t happy with the current amenities of Land Shark/Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphins Stadium. After all, there’s no roof on the stadium and *gasp* people could get wet if it were to rain!
Along with a roof to keep the rain out, Land Shark Stadium lacks the modern skyboxes, high-definition lighting and other amenities that can make a Super Bowl more lucrative for the National Football League, Frank Supovitz, the NFL’s senior vice president of events, told a business group Wednesday.
“You have to look at what the other cities are offering in terms of comfort,” Supovitz told the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
The horror of it all – people getting wet at a football game! I bet you they’d probably get rain in a their tea and their finger sandwiches would get soggy. Unacceptable for any event where you go to watch men attempt to decapitate each other with a helmet.
“I’m not going to have anyone rained on in North Texas,” Supovitz said, referring to the Dallas Cowboys’ new $1 billion stadium.
“They’re not going to get rained on in Indianapolis.”
I’ve been to Indianapolis and I’ll tell you right now, if it rained on you while you’re there it will probably be the second most exciting thing you experience while there besides the Super Bowl.
While that game holds the record for Super Bowl spending — estimated at $300 million by organizers — a grim economy is expected to put a chill on corporate merriment for the 2010 game.
One flourish from South Florida’s 2010 bid package — the free use of a yacht for each of the NFL’s 32 owners — has been scrapped in favor of fishing trips for 200 inner-city youth from Broward and Miami-Dade.
Wait a minute – free yachts for the owners? Isn’t having your own yacht at your disposal in Miami, for a weekend tryst with your mistress, a requirement for becoming an NFL owner? Of course their going to reject that offer, especially when their own yacht dwarfs the freebie that the committee was offering. I mean have you seen the size of Jerry Jones’ replay screen? There’s no way that his yacht isn’t one of the largest in the world and stocked with guns and women for his players.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just old school but maybe they should be focusing more on how they can reanimate Michael Jackson for the half-time show in 2015.
