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New York conditionally awarded 2010 Super Bowl
Posted: Wednesday March 23, 2005 6:41PM; Updated: Wednesday March 23, 2005 6:47PM
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) -- The Super Bowl is coming to the Big Apple in 2010. Maybe.
Now all the New York Jets have to do is get approval for their stadium project on the West Side of Manhattan, which is no slam dunk.
NFL owners voted 31-1 on Wednesday to award the 2010 game to New York, provided the 75,000-seat stadium, whose cost now has reached nearly $2 billion, is built.
"Today is a landmark day," Jets owner Woody Johnson said, "and the 2010 Super Bowl in the New York Sports and Convention Center will be a historic event. We're thrilled about this announcement."
But there still are many hurdles before the Jets can break ground on what also would be the centerpiece of the city's 2012 Summer Olympics bid.
Earlier this week, the Jets substantially increased their bid to $720 million for the land on which the stadium will be built. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which owns the land that currently is used as train yards, will choose among three bidders on March 31.
There also has been substantial opposition to the project from neighborhood action groups and others who question why New York's police officers, firefighters and teachers are without contracts but the city can chip in hundreds of millions of dollars for a stadium.
The city and state favor the project and have agreed to contribute about $600 million.
New York Gov. George Pataki said the Super Bowl announcement came on "an exciting, exciting day."
"Now we just have to get the stadium built, and I can't wait to see the Super Bowl and see the Jets play the [New York] Giants," Pataki said via speaker phone from Albany at a press conference at the ESPN Zone in Times Square.
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