Daily News | Philly once came ever so close to landing the Super Bowl, but lost out in overtime
After it had snowed on 12 of the first 18 days he was in office, Mayor W. Wilson Goode went for it all in January 1984 by declaring that the city was going to bid on Super Bowl XXI, scheduled for Jan. 25, 1987. Don Quixote does South Philly?
Pasadena over Philly in January? What were they thinking? Didn’t they know that it snowed out there in January 1932, setting off a snowball ”riot” the led to multiple arrests? But what’s a few degrees of separation between coasts? The city blitzed the 28 team owners with a 6½-minute film extolling Philly’s assets, and how did you guess that it included theAs the film begins, the announcer proclaims: “Philadelphia has the dynamic force of a champion, and you can expect championship treatment from a city that will pull out all the stops for Super Bowl XXI.”
However, in advance of the Eagles’ only Super Bowl victory five years ago in a game played in Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune posted. In spelling out the “minimum specifications,” it reads somewhat like a manifesto for declaring economic martial law.
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