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NFL had long list of demands before selecting Minnesota for Super Bowl LII

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Minnesota may have gotten the distinction of hosting Super Bowl LII in 2018, but it didn’t come without a price.

In a league document acquired by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the NFL announced a large list of requirements for any potential Super Bowl host city.

These demands included: free police escorts for team owners, 20 free billboards advertising the game across the city, 35,000 free parking spaces, free presidential suites in luxury hotels, a one-mile radius “clean zone” around the stadium and free cell phone towers in case of weak signal strength at team hotels.

The document, which the Star Tribune received from an unnamed source, was not released publicly before this past weekend.

While Minneapolis City Council president Barb Johnson stated that “€œincentives”€ had to be accepted in order to host the Super Bowl, Mayor Betsy Hodges‘ office added that it does not know what agreements the host committee ultimately agreed to.

In a written statement to the Star Tribune, the host committee stated that “while the Minnesota Super Bowl Bid Committee did not agree to all of the NFL’€™s Super Bowl bid specifications, the competitive bid remains private.”

One demand that Minneapolis has not agreed to was a request for the NFL to select specific vendors to sell merchandise at local airports, as well as the “unrestricted ability”€ to set up kiosks in multiple spots at these airports.

Patrick Hogan, a Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman, said that Minneapolis had not agreed to the requirement, adding that the commission would select the vendors at for any airports in the area.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy refused to comment on whether refusing to accept the NFL’€™s demands would hurt a city from potentially earned a Super Bowl hosting bid.


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