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NYC is getting the 2010 SB. I was ticked when I first heard this, but maybe if one cold weather site gets a SB maybe we have a chance to get a SB at FEDEX Field!
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2018902

Not likely unless they put a roof over FedEx.

Isn't there already a thread on this somewhere?

And the 2010 SB won't be in NY unless the Jets persuade the City and the Stae each to give them $300 million to help build this $1.7 million retractable roof "all luxury all the time" stadium.

The SB choice was the NFL's attempt to help the Jets. No stadium = no SB in NYC. See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/sport ... 24nfl.html?

L. Jay Cross, the Jets' president, said he thought the stamp of approval from the league's owners would help the Jets win the bid. The proposed stadium is also part of New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics.

"We're very confident," Cross said in an interview after the Super Bowl vote. "We've been at it four years. We're going to bring the world's greatest event to the world's greatest city. What could be better?"

What could be better? Spending public money on things we need, rather than giving it to L. Jay Cross and associates and the Jets. Or pumping it into the Olympic games.

I can't see the logic. The Jets share a well-maintained stadium in the Meadowlands. The City of New York, the State of New York, and the State of New Jersey all have budget problems. Why spend money we don't have to replce something that works?

welch wrote:And the 2010 SB won't be in NY unless the Jets persuade the City and the Stae each to give them $300 million to help build this $1.7 million retractable roof "all luxury all the time" stadium.

The SB choice was the NFL's attempt to help the Jets. No stadium = no SB in NYC. See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/sport ... 24nfl.html?

L. Jay Cross, the Jets' president, said he thought the stamp of approval from the league's owners would help the Jets win the bid. The proposed stadium is also part of New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics.

"We're very confident," Cross said in an interview after the Super Bowl vote. "We've been at it four years. We're going to bring the world's greatest event to the world's greatest city. What could be better?"

What could be better? Spending public money on things we need, rather than giving it to L. Jay Cross and associates and the Jets. Or pumping it into the Olympic games.

I can't see the logic. The Jets share a well-maintained stadium in the Meadowlands. The City of New York, the State of New York, and the State of New Jersey all have budget problems. Why spend money we don't have to replce something that works?

It's not being replaced...they're just tenants.

IMO welch this is only about the Jets and the NFL wanting to get more $$$ for each other. They couldn't give a rats xyz about the city or the taxpayers!

IMO welch this is only about the Jets and the NFL wanting to get more $$$ for each other. They couldn't give a rats xyz about the city or the taxpayers!

That's right. And that's what the taxpayers say.

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Regarding PT42's comment: the State of New Jersey owns Giants Stadium, and leases it to both teams. More exactly, the Meadowlands Sports Authority owns the stadium, and the State is ultimately behind the Meadowlands Authority, just as New York State and New Jersey stand behind the Port Authority of NY and NJ, which owns the airports and the inter-state bridges and tunnels. The Jets are asking New York (State and City) to help build a replacement for the Jets half-occupancy of a perfectly good stadium less than ten miles away.

The Super Bowl is a ho-hum. Tourists are coming back, especially European tourists now that the dollar is worth so little. A Super Bowl would be a one-shot event: not something long-term that puts people in hotels and taxis and restaurants and Broadway shows.

The Olympics would be worse. Commuting on a normal day goes wild if one element -- a bridge, a tunnel, a highway, one of the five or six commuter railroads, or even one subway line -- goes down. Transportation is a mess whenever the UN opens, or the President comes to town, or we have a big parade, because they have to close major streets.

The Republican Convention was so bad that our company had people work from home if their commute took them through Penn Station, which sits above Madison Square Garden. An Olympics would be a two-week version of the Convention, but spread all over.

The Jets stadium, the Super Bowl, and the Olympics are all one ugly package. And, yes, I hate those dumb stickers on the MTA busses that say something like "An Olympic Dream City!"