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Detroit Super Bowl Executive Discusses Hotel, Stadium Issues with NFL.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Fricker, Daniel G.
Sep. 28--CHICAGO--Detroit's Super Bowl executive bid team told the NFL on Wednesday that it was clearing up potential deficiencies in its quest to host the 2006 Super Bowl.
The bid team, headed by Detroit businessman Roger Penske, said it has signed commitments for nearly 90 percent of the 17,500 full-service hotel rooms required by the league.
The bid team also told NFL executives that Ford Field, the 65,000-seat football dome under construction in downtown Detroit, could be temporarily expanded for a Super Bowl to accommodate 70,000 paying fans and 3,000 media members.
Detroit's ability to secure the hotel rooms and temporarily expand the stadium was a question the NFL had raised about Detroit's preliminary bid for Super Bowl XL. The city...
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