Showing posts with label Superbowl 49. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superbowl 49. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Bet the owners made out--crony capitalism!

February 03, 2015 Superbowl 49 , U.S. Economy 0 Comments
How Much Did The Super Bowl Aid Glendale's Economy?

By Fred Imbert, Feb. 2, 2015, CNBC.com

Super Bowl XLIX is in the books and the dust is settling in Glendale, Arizona, but the event's economic impact on the city is still being determined.

The Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee estimates the event had an economic impact of more than $500 million in Glendale, David Rousseau, its chairman, said. The committee bases its projection on a study conducted by Arizona State University examining the economic impact from Super Bowl XLII in 2008, also held in Glendale.

The ASU analysis was commissioned by the committee and determined the earlier Super Bowl brought in about $500 million to the city, Rousseau said. The study measured the event's economic impact by considering car and hotel room rentals as well as number of people travelling to the contest by plane, among other variables, he added. "[ASU] did the analysis and surveying to determine the per capita spending in that population," he said. "That's how they got to the $500 million."

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Player ejected at end of game

Player ejected at end of game

February 02, 2015 Superbowl 49 , 0 Comments
Brawl Instigated By Seattle Breaks Out 18 Seconds Before End Of Super Bowl



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Sunday, February 1, 2015

BULL! NFL's more popular than ever!!

February 01, 2015 Apnews.myway.com , Eddie Pells 0 Comments
Super Bowl The Final Act Of The NFL's Worst Season

By Eddie Pells, Jan. 31, 2015, APNews.MyWay.com

PHOENIX (AP) — Domestic violence. Questionable discipline. Player safety. Confusing officiating. Deflated footballs.

The disturbing headlines that began last February never slowed down for the NFL this season. The problems — most of them made worse by the ineffectual handling — mushroomed into an imperfect storm that hurt the league's credibility and turned the lead-up to Sunday's Super Bowl into a time for damage control, not celebration.

"It never ceases," said Orin Starn, a Duke professor who studies sports in society. "It was one crisis and PR challenge after another and I didn't envy Roger Goodell at all."

At the commissioner's contentious news conference Friday — Goodell fielded one question about whether he thought he should be fired and another about taking a pay cut — he was hit with a barrage of questions that spoke to the wide range of problems that punctured the league's integrity, though not its popularity.
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