Tony Dorsett, the Cowboys’ Hall of Fame running back and Host Committee member,
cannot count the number of Super Bowls he’s attended both as a player and a fan. But he
loves it.
“As a player, you try to become immune to all the stuff,” Dorsett said. “There are so many
distractions. You know it’s the biggest game on the biggest platform.
“You’ve got a lot of family...
ARLINGTON — They snipped the ribbon on the next Wonder of the World Wednesday afternoon — Cowboys Stadium, Sunday home to America’s Team, and the 2011 big house for the first-ever Super Bowl in North Texas history.
She might not have been decked out in all of her jewelry and trappings just yet. Construction is ongoing. But this, as they say in the movie business, was a preview of things...
Bill Lively did not have to scour the scouting reports to select Kit Sawers as the North Texas Host Committee’s Vice President of Special Events. Those seeds had been planted in his mind for 15 years.
Nobody with the Host Committee has enjoyed a longer, more pleasurable history with Lively, the...
Emmitt Smith remembers the first time he saw Dallas, skyscrapers glowing in a tar black sky.
The Cowboys had drafted him in 1990 out of Florida, his home state, following a horrible 1-15 season. They had a heavily-battered young...
Brad Sham called together the first meeting of Super Bowl XLV’s Action Committee on Friday and began hammering out the Game Plan for what should be a highly anticipated, fan-involved function.
The Action Committee will bang heads long enough to come up with a list of 250 games, events and contributors who have impacted the history of football in the North Texas region. That list will be...
It's not every day you end up in a dark room with Pat Summerall.
The legendary NFL broadcaster announced the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee's Venue Selection news conference on May 12, and I was assigned to watch the "man behind the curtain" and see how the magic happened.
The news conference was designed as a take-off on televised award shows — with two celebrities...
The National Football League spread Super Bowl XLV all over the belly of North Texas on Tuesday.
The blockbuster Taste of the NFL will be in Fort Worth.
The NFL Tailgate Party will be in the End Zone Plaza of the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington.
The NFL Experience, including an 850,000 square foot theme center and more than 200,000 fans over two weekends, will be in...
NORTH TEXAS (May 12, 2009) – The National Football League (NFL) and North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee today announced venue selections for 16 key events that will be held in conjunction with Super Bowl XLV. The game will be played at the Dallas Cowboys New Stadium in Arlington on Feb. 6, 2011.
The venues announced today include sites in four area cities: Arlington, Dallas, Fort...
Keep those pens and paper, and forks and spoons, handy.
Come Tuesday at a major press conference at the Arlington Sheraton, they’ll be announcing all the events and venues for all activities linked to Super Bowl XLV — the one coming to North Texas in 2011.
Primary among them will be the announcement regarding the Taste of the NFL, a blockbuster feast that includes noted chefs...
Two years ago this month, Tara Green, Roger Staubach and numerous civic-minded North Texans attended the meeting in Nashville that changed history.
Green, the North Texas Host Committee’s chief operating officer, and Staubach, the chairman who called all the right signals, huddled in a hotel suite while waiting to learn which U.S. bid city would be handed the 2011 Super Bowl at that NFL...
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