Indianapolis Picked For 2012 Super Bowl
The NFL on Tuesday announced that it chose Indianapolis to host the 2012 Super Bowl, one of the most heavily viewed shows on U.S. television every year.
A year after coming up short in its bid to host the NFL’s big game, Indianapolis was able to beat out Houston and Arizona for its first Super Bowl.
The game will be played in Lucas Oil Stadium, a new $700 million facility scheduled to open in August that will seat about 73,000 for a Super Bowl.
The NFL requires cities bidding for the Super Bowl to offer stadiums that seat 70,000 or more people, at least 27,000 hotel rooms within an hour’s drive of the stadium, a media center for 4,000 journalists, practice facilities for both teams, and 800,000 to 1 million square feet of space for an interactive league theme park.
Arizona officials, in a study released last month, estimated Super Bowl XLII, played in the Cardinals’ stadium in Glendale in February, generated almost $501 million in direct and indirect spending by visitors and organizations who came to the state for the game.
Rock on Indianapolis!
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