San Francisco – Super Bowl LX is still five months away and 45 miles south of here, but NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is in the city for his official launch.
On Friday that meant the collection of a memorial flag in the town hall and later announcement of the very first innovation summit of the Super Bowl will take place in San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art on 6 February, two days before the Stadium of Levi organizes its second Super Bowl.
“We use our game to unite the country and the world. I think we can all use it a bit,” Goodell told a private audience of 100 in the theater of Sfmoma. “The Super Bowl will be here to shine the light on the beautiful things that happen here in the Bay Area.”
Goodell participated in a short panel with 49 people Jed York, mayor of San Francisco Daniel Lurie and Bay Area host committee CEO Zaileen Janmohamed. No other super bowl week festivities were revealed, although it is no secret that San Francisco will serve as the epicenter of activities, just like ten years ago when Super Bowl 50 was held in the 2-year Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
No questions have been taken over from the dozens of reporters present.
There was no official word, but Super Bowl Opening Night – the Night Media Circus Medium – is expected to be held in San Jose, host of the 2015 event. The Moscone Convention Center of San Francisco is already praising how it will organize the Super Bowl fan experience as it did ten years ago.
“We can show off,” said Mayor Lurie. “There is no larger competition on the planet than the Super Bowl. We are honored to host it. We are going to finish our tail. Our public safety officials have been working on it for months (with the Bay Area host committee). We are going to show that San Francisco is not only in the course of the world, but the largest city in the world.”
York praised Lurie’s efforts to rehabilitate the image and communities of San Francisco.
“If you look at where San Francisco has been in the past and where the city is going now, I couldn’t choose a better time to host the Super Bowl,” York said. “We are very honored that our partners of the NFL San Francisco Bay Area have selected to host. I am just proud as someone, I did not grow up in San Francisco, but San Francisco is close and dear is my heart. I love this city. I think it is the largest city in the world.
Lurie noted that he collaborates with fellow mayors in Oakland and San Jose for an inclusive Super Bowl, and that is the designed mission of the Host Committee of Bay Area in a year that started with San Francisco that organized the NBA All-Star Game.
Goodell has expressed compliments to San Francisco and the Bay Area: “So many people come to this community for the Super Bowl who does not have a ticket. They just want to be in this region. They want San Francisco, or Oakland or San Jose or all the wonderful communities you have. To give them a chance to experience the community is the greatest value.
“Economic impact is clearly huge,” Goodell continued, “but this is an opportunity for you to show off the great progress that takes place in this community. I feel it. I have been here less than 24 hours, you can feel it. You don’t see it alone, you feel it, and that’s great. I can’t wait for the Super Bowl here and share the world.”
Regarding the innovation top, it offers lessons in the next generation of products and technology, and it will be “formed and moderated” by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, hosts of the acquired technology podcast.
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