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You want a Super Bowl winner in a brand new downtown stadium? You want the largest one-day sporting event in the world? You want the NBA, professional baseball - in a downtown stadium, major national championships from swimming and diving to gymnastics and track and the Final Four - you got Indianapolis.

Indianapolis, with its shiny downtown, is a 20-carat diamond in the buckle of the Rust Belt, ready to sparkle with the 2012 Super Bowl. Indianapolis is transcendent.

Indianapolis has hosted major sporting events for decades-the Indianapolis 500 ran its first race in 1911-and treats visitors better than any other convention or tourist destination. Visitors crow about the ability to move effortlessly on foot from a sporting venue to a restaurant to a popular nightspot and back to their hotel. No need for shuttle buses to move from place to place; just a pair of comfortable shoes.

While the financial benefits of hosting a Super Bowl are obvious, our desire to introduce Indianapolis more formally to the world through the Super Bowl platform is what drives this Super Bowl bid. This is the one factor so often overlooked when considering Indianapolis as a host city for the Super Bowl: we are damn proud of our city. Check with the folks who live here - ask them about our hospitality, or better, ask them for directions. I bet your brother-in-law isn’t as nice as we are!

As Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, has already made a statement in our skyline, Indianapolis wants to make the statement that we are a Super Bowl city.

Roland Dorson
President, Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
ContactUs@OUR2012SB.com

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