When it comes to the NFL’s Big Dance, North Texas and Indianapolis are the two new darling Cinderellas who have no intentions of leaving behind their glass slippers.
The Super Bowls wrapped around the ones in North Texas and Indianapolis will be staged in the NFL mainstays of Miami (2010) and New Orleans (2013) — two cities that have shared not quite half of all Super Bowls.
But...
ARLINGTON — Almost 500 professional event planners poured into Cowboys Stadium Thursday to hear how they can get involved in North Texas’ first ever Super Bowl.
North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee members Tara Green,...
When Francine Powers first got involved with Super Bowls in 1995, she probably didn’t know a touchback from a cornerback. Still might not.
But the NFL’s Emerging Business Program does not award Super Bowl contracts based on football IQ. It’s all about being certified and qualified…then grabbing the ball and running with it.
Powers opened her South Florida catering business, We’re...
When they asked Emmitt Smith to be Honorary Chairman for Super Bowl XLV’s Emerging Business Action Team, he said no.
He wanted more than that.
“Putting your name to something is kind of passive work in a lot of ways,” says Smith, who serves as majority partner and CEO of ESmith Legacy, Inc., a...
ARLINGTON — The Lombardi Trophy, awarded to each NFL champion on Super Bowl Sunday, is made of sterling silver.
It’s difficult getting fingerprints off sterling silver. Takes a special rag and chemical.
A few years ago, the network televising the Super Bowl wanted head shots of each team’s starting lineup with each player and the trophy.
Nobody could keep their hands off...
FORT WORTH — Super Bowl XLV will come through North Texas in 2011 and leave a lasting impact on the region....
Nobody had to sing Phillip Jones a love song of Super Bowls past before he had the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau pony up a $1 million sponsorship for the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee.
Just prior to becoming the DCVB’s President & CEO in November 2003, Jones was the state of Louisiana’s Secretary for the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, 1995-2003...
As NFL training camps broke out all over the belly of the U.S. these past few days, the South Florida Super Bowl Host Committee got struck by another bolt of reality.
The Super Bowl’s 44th rendition is hitting the beaches of South Florida at this season’s end. Helmets are butting across the land and live footballs fill the air because everyone is dreaming of reaching South Florida....
NFL fans in this modern era understand the importance of controlling the airways. What the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee is doing right now is rolling out a game plan for 2011 that includes just that:
Making sure local airports, however large or small, enjoy the optimum economic impact and experience from the North Texas Super Bowl.
In the words of Host Committee Vice...
Sam Blair began covering pro football so long ago that the NFL’s newest franchise, the Cowboys, practiced at a baseball park called Burnett Field, just on the outskirts of downtown Dallas.
The year was 1960 and players kept noticing their shoes were being chewed up, not by the baked surface of the practice field but from inside the locker room. That’s right, folks, the rats back then...
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