Is the Super Bowl a Business Winner?
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An O’Neil Associates/ASBA Arizona Economic Indicators Monitor poll of small-business owners in Arizona found that 44 percent of those entrepreneurs oppose spending public funds on hosting an NFL Super Bowl in their communities.
The results, reported in the , indicate that 66 percent of the business owners polled would support a Super Bowl if they felt the conditions would be advantageous, however.
Privateers fronted $13 million of the $17 million Super Bowl XLII cost the city of Glendale, Ariz., the publication reports. The state has called the game a success and is hoping to land another.
“We think this reflects the pragmatic nature of the small-business community,” poll director Michael O’Neil told the Business Journal. The Super Bowl, he adds, “strikes us as a hard sell, but not necessarily an impossible one.”
An O’Neil Associates/ASBA Arizona Economic Indicators Monitor poll of small-business owners in Arizona found that 44 percent of those entrepreneurs oppose spending public funds on hosting an NFL Super Bowl in their communities.
The results, reported in the , indicate that 66 percent of the business owners polled would support a Super Bowl if they felt the conditions would be advantageous, however.
Privateers fronted $13 million of the $17 million Super Bowl XLII cost the city of Glendale, Ariz., the publication reports. The state has called the game a success and is hoping to land another.
“We think this reflects the pragmatic nature of the small-business community,” poll director Michael O’Neil told the Business Journal. The Super Bowl, he adds, “strikes us as a hard sell, but not necessarily an impossible one.”
