According to the Indianapolis Business Journal, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is committing $1 million toward a bid by Indianapolis to host the 2011 Super Bowl, the city announced this morning.
Irsay will co-chair the organization created to pursue the event, Indianapolis 2011 Inc. Other co-chairs are Mayor Bart Peterson, Gov. Mitch Daniels and Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Tony George, says the on-line report.
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$1 million? Talk about cheapskate! Jim you can do better than $1 million.
If you want to talk about someone who has staff and contacts to put together an event like this - Tony George can get it done. Regardless of your opinion of his handling of open wheel racing, he brings in crowds of roughly 300,000+ for the Indy 500, 125,000 for the US Grand Prix and 400,000 (at least!) for the Brickyard 400.
That leaves him roughly $120 million from the publicly funded stadium's naming rights.
(sarcasm alert) Jim Irsay sure is a giving, public-spirited man.
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