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N.F.L. Expected to Pick West Side Stadium for 2010 Super Bowl
By DAVE ANDERSON
Published: March 15, 2005
NEW YORK, March 15 - The National Football League is expected to name the as-yet-unbuilt Jets stadium on the West Side of New York City as the site of the 2010 Super Bowl.
The decision would be contingent on construction by 2009 of the proposed $1.7 billion retractable-roof stadium that remains embroiled in political and financial controversy. "For our club owners, the idea of a Super Bowl in a domed stadium in New York is a no-brainer," said Joe Browne, the N.F.L.'s vice president of communications and public affairs.
The N.F.L. is expected to vote on the matter at its annual meeting next week in Maui, Hawaii; the New York site would require the support of at least 24 of the 32 club owners. The vote was moved up from June at the request of the Jets, who are lobbying hard to be the winning bid for the stadium site on Manhattan's West Side that is controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Bids are due on Monday.
The Jets, Cablevision, Transgas and possibly a fourth developer are expected to enter bids for the rights to develop in the state-owned railroad yards between 30th and 33rd Streets from 11th Avenue to 12th Avenue.
Peter S. Kalikow, the authority's chairman, will file his own recommendation to the M.T.A. board by March 31.
Plans by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to build a stadium that could be used by the Jets and the Olympics turned into a free-for-all last month when the M.T.A. decided to abandon its exclusive, yearlong negotiation with the Jets and hold an auction.
The Jets' original bid of $100 million has been exceeded by both Cablevision's $600 million and Transgas's $700 million, although those two bids contain conditions that make it difficult to compare directly to the Jets' bid or to what a restructured Jets bid might be. There remains a great deal of speculation in the real estate industry about who will bid, how much they will bid and whether the Jets will form a partnership with a developer that would enable them to raise their initial $100 million proposal.
The Jets are hoping that a promise to hold the Super Bowl in New York will bolster their chances.
Earlier this month, the N.F.L. shifted its annual draft of college players out of Madison Square Garden and into the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, partly because Cablevision, which owns the Garden, is opposed to the West Side stadium. The Javits Center is next to the site for the proposed stadium.
The N.F.L., which has awarded the next three Super Bowls to Detroit, Miami and the new Arizona Cardinals stadium near Phoenix, will vote in May on the four candidates for the 2009 Super Bowl: Miami, Tampa, Houston and Atlanta.
Maria Newman contributed reporting for this article.
By DAVE ANDERSON
Published: March 15, 2005
NEW YORK, March 15 - The National Football League is expected to name the as-yet-unbuilt Jets stadium on the West Side of New York City as the site of the 2010 Super Bowl.
The decision would be contingent on construction by 2009 of the proposed $1.7 billion retractable-roof stadium that remains embroiled in political and financial controversy. "For our club owners, the idea of a Super Bowl in a domed stadium in New York is a no-brainer," said Joe Browne, the N.F.L.'s vice president of communications and public affairs.
The N.F.L. is expected to vote on the matter at its annual meeting next week in Maui, Hawaii; the New York site would require the support of at least 24 of the 32 club owners. The vote was moved up from June at the request of the Jets, who are lobbying hard to be the winning bid for the stadium site on Manhattan's West Side that is controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Bids are due on Monday.
The Jets, Cablevision, Transgas and possibly a fourth developer are expected to enter bids for the rights to develop in the state-owned railroad yards between 30th and 33rd Streets from 11th Avenue to 12th Avenue.
Peter S. Kalikow, the authority's chairman, will file his own recommendation to the M.T.A. board by March 31.
Plans by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to build a stadium that could be used by the Jets and the Olympics turned into a free-for-all last month when the M.T.A. decided to abandon its exclusive, yearlong negotiation with the Jets and hold an auction.
The Jets' original bid of $100 million has been exceeded by both Cablevision's $600 million and Transgas's $700 million, although those two bids contain conditions that make it difficult to compare directly to the Jets' bid or to what a restructured Jets bid might be. There remains a great deal of speculation in the real estate industry about who will bid, how much they will bid and whether the Jets will form a partnership with a developer that would enable them to raise their initial $100 million proposal.
The Jets are hoping that a promise to hold the Super Bowl in New York will bolster their chances.
Earlier this month, the N.F.L. shifted its annual draft of college players out of Madison Square Garden and into the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, partly because Cablevision, which owns the Garden, is opposed to the West Side stadium. The Javits Center is next to the site for the proposed stadium.
The N.F.L., which has awarded the next three Super Bowls to Detroit, Miami and the new Arizona Cardinals stadium near Phoenix, will vote in May on the four candidates for the 2009 Super Bowl: Miami, Tampa, Houston and Atlanta.
Maria Newman contributed reporting for this article.
Now why does the NFL thinking of doing something stupid like that?
Its sort of Amazing, millions being spent on adds for and against a studium in the world's most expensive media market. POlitically the stadium is a loser.
another thing to add to the list of things ADG hates.
(Though these days they might as well rename it the German Bowl 
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