1. Super Bowl doesn’t break attendance record: Breaking the attendance record was a big part of Jerry Jones’ big dream for his Cowboys Stadium-hosted Super Bowl 45. How close did they come to breaking the record set in 1980 at the Rose Bowl? 766 short. Ouch.
2. Stadium screws 400 fans out of Super Bowl experience: Jim Sass of Milwaukee spent $12,000 on a Super Bowl package that included a couple of tickets in row 33. When Sass got to row 32, he realized there was no row 33. No, he hadn’t purchased a counterfeit ticket. The stadium had just failed to complete temporary stands in time for the big game. According to the New York Post, officials weren’t very charming about the situation:
Sass told The Post that when he looked around for help, “Some smart-ass from the NFL told us, ‘Hey buddy, don’t bother me. You’re just going to have to stand somewhere and watch the game.’
“My daughter was crying,” said Sass, wearing a Packers No. 12 Aaron Rodgers jersey. “If I was younger, I’d have decked him.”
3. Will we ever see another Super Bowl in North Texas again? This Morning News piece chats with some visitors to capture final reactions to the snowy Super Bowl. Problems listed: an empty downtown Dallas, the region’s inability to deal with the weather, the temporary seating fiasco, a poor ‘party plaza’ for watching the game outside the stadium, and the lack of public transportation in Arlington. But when it comes down to it, the shrine to Jerry Jones football, Cowboys Stadium, may save the day:
“San Diego is a dump,” [Anthony] Kafesjian said. “Los Angeles doesn’t have a team. New Orleans is a great place for the Super Bowl, but they’re about to have one. Why not Dallas?”
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3. The list basically contains some of the same things locals point out as inadequacies. Potemkin villages only work if passengers are moving at a certain speed. The ice and snow put the kibosh on movement.
Jerry Jones ego made a blivet out of
Super Bowl XLV.
3. If the super bowl week had gone off without a hitch, the mayor of Arlington and JJ would be battling for mike and camera time. Instead, it looks like Dallas will be the biggest target for the negative press. The SB will be in Indianapolis next year – if it had been there this year it really would have been a disaster. The Indianapolis SB committee is probably in session right now revising their Plans B, C and D and the selection committe is wondering what the heck were they thinking.