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2015年1月6日’Bold’ bid lands 2018 Super Bowl for Minnesota
ATLANTA Four ballots into a tension filled process, the Minneapolis Super Bowl pitch built around the new Vikings stadium triumphed Tuesday over party magnet New Orleans and 2012 host Indianapolis to bring the NFL premier event to Minnesota in 2018. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis, former Carlson Cos. board chair Marilyn Carlson Nelson and other members of the Minnesota delegation danced, jumped up and down, hugged and high fived on hearing the news. Their raucous cheers and exclamations of did it! reverberated through the hallways of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the upscale Buckhead neighborhood, where the high stakes drama had just played out.
The theme of Minneapolis bid, for the Bold, which emphasized the $1 billion Vikings stadium under construction and the state friendly ethos, was seen by some observers as an underdog wholesale nfl jerseys to New Orleans. But after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the victor, a number of team owners said the new stadium was a decisive factor.
going to make football fans everywhere proud, Vikings owner/president Mark Wilf said.
Minnesota last hosted a Super Bowl in 1992 in the recently demolished Metrodome. The big game is coveted by league cities because it brings with it two weeks of international media attention, cheap nfl jerseys millions of dollars of consumer spending and an incalculable civic boost.
Mark Wilf, who gave Minneapolis five minute closing argument to the owners during their closed door meeting before voting, said he emphasized the public private partnership involved in building the stadium. He also told the owners that the Super Bowl would validate the stadium as a top notch facility for generations of Minnesotans.
Bringing the Super Bowl to Minneapolis is a coup for the Wilfs, New Jersey businessmen who have owned the team for a decade but are still considered outsiders by some Minnesotans. They lobbied furiously for a new stadium until the Legislature relented in 2012.
think that what swayed most of the owners, said New York Giants owner John Mara of the new Vikings stadium.
The vote is secret, so the final tally won be made public. But it clearly wasn a slam dunk for Minnesota. No team received the required super majority on the first, second or third ballots. Indianapolis was dropped after the second ballot for having the least votes. The final ballot required only a simple majority of votes, and that pushed Minnesota to the top.
Members of the state delegation beamed as they walked into a media room for a news conference to talk about the victory. With Carlson Nelson sporting a glamorous bright purple dress and Davis a purple tie, the Minneapolis team had strutted through the Ritz Carlton lobby to the NFL owners meeting room with more pizazz and seemingly more purpose than the dark suited teams from the other cities.
Still, there were some last minute jitters.
To prepare for their presentation, Carlson Nelson and Davis sat at the head of the table in the Minneapolis war room. She admitted to being nervous. He smiled.
They came out of their 15 minute presentation satisfied they left nothing unsaid. Davis playfully mugged before the interview for the cameras, saying, up, Minnesota? Carlson Nelson got misty eyed as she spoke of her pride in the quality of the presentation and her hometown. only you knew these people, she said she wanted to tell the owners. so authentic. They so real. The pride and preparation paid off. In a television interview after the victory, an ebullient Carlson Nelson said, everybody to come! What Minnesota pitched
Before the presentation, Minnesota steering committee members kept their cards hidden, but afterward they revealed the bid theme and emphasis on the ease of navigating the Twin Cities and plans to make the Mall of America a hub of action.
They also told the owners that the St. Paul Winter Carnival has agreed to build an eight story ice castle its first since 2004. And that the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is bigger than the airports serving the other bidders. And that light rail transit will make ground travel easy.
ATLANTA Four ballots into a tension filled process, the Minneapolis Super Bowl pitch built around the new Vikings stadium triumphed Tuesday over party magnet New Orleans and 2012 host Indianapolis to bring the NFL premier event to Minnesota in 2018. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis, former Carlson Cos. board chair Marilyn Carlson Nelson and other members of the Minnesota delegation danced, jumped up and down, hugged and high fived on hearing the news. Their raucous cheers and exclamations of did it! reverberated through the hallways of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in the upscale Buckhead neighborhood, where the high stakes drama had just played out.
The theme of Minneapolis bid, for the Bold, which emphasized the $1 billion Vikings stadium under construction and the state friendly ethos, was seen by some observers as an underdog wholesale nfl jerseys to New Orleans. But after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the victor, a number of team owners said the new stadium was a decisive factor.
going to make football fans everywhere proud, Vikings owner/president Mark Wilf said.
Minnesota last hosted a Super Bowl in 1992 in the recently demolished Metrodome. The big game is coveted by league cities because it brings with it two weeks of international media attention, cheap nfl jerseys millions of dollars of consumer spending and an incalculable civic boost.
Mark Wilf, who gave Minneapolis five minute closing argument to the owners during their closed door meeting before voting, said he emphasized the public private partnership involved in building the stadium. He also told the owners that the Super Bowl would validate the stadium as a top notch facility for generations of Minnesotans.
Bringing the Super Bowl to Minneapolis is a coup for the Wilfs, New Jersey businessmen who have owned the team for a decade but are still considered outsiders by some Minnesotans. They lobbied furiously for a new stadium until the Legislature relented in 2012.
think that what swayed most of the owners, said New York Giants owner John Mara of the new Vikings stadium.
The vote is secret, so the final tally won be made public. But it clearly wasn a slam dunk for Minnesota. No team received the required super majority on the first, second or third ballots. Indianapolis was dropped after the second ballot for having the least votes. The final ballot required only a simple majority of votes, and that pushed Minnesota to the top.
Members of the state delegation beamed as they walked into a media room for a news conference to talk about the victory. With Carlson Nelson sporting a glamorous bright purple dress and Davis a purple tie, the Minneapolis team had strutted through the Ritz Carlton lobby to the NFL owners meeting room with more pizazz and seemingly more purpose than the dark suited teams from the other cities.
Still, there were some last minute jitters.
To prepare for their presentation, Carlson Nelson and Davis sat at the head of the table in the Minneapolis war room. She admitted to being nervous. He smiled.
They came out of their 15 minute presentation satisfied they left nothing unsaid. Davis playfully mugged before the interview for the cameras, saying, up, Minnesota? Carlson Nelson got misty eyed as she spoke of her pride in the quality of the presentation and her hometown. only you knew these people, she said she wanted to tell the owners. so authentic. They so real. The pride and preparation paid off. In a television interview after the victory, an ebullient Carlson Nelson said, everybody to come! What Minnesota pitched
Before the presentation, Minnesota steering committee members kept their cards hidden, but afterward they revealed the bid theme and emphasis on the ease of navigating the Twin Cities and plans to make the Mall of America a hub of action.
They also told the owners that the St. Paul Winter Carnival has agreed to build an eight story ice castle its first since 2004. And that the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport is bigger than the airports serving the other bidders. And that light rail transit will make ground travel easy.
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