North Texas bid beats Indy, Arizona for 2011 Super Bowl

Associated
Press

The 2011
Super Bowl will be played at the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium in

Arlington,
Texas.

Indianapolis and

Glendale,
Arizona
also bid for the game.

NFL owners
voted Tuesday for the
North Texas group, which
had Hall of Famer Roger Staubach lobbying on its behalf. The Cowboys’ $1
billion stadium seats more than 100,000 and will open in 2009. It has about
27,000 more seats than the other stadiums involved.

The

Indianapolis bid featured
the Colts’ domed stadium opening in 2008 and was backed by a Top 10 list by
David Letterman.
Arizona hosts the 2008 Super
Bowl on Feb. 3 and hosted the 1996 Super Bowl in

Tempe.

Texas
has hosted the Super Bowl twice, in

Houston in 2004 in the Texans’ new stadium
and in 1974 at Rice Stadium.
Indianapolis also
lost to

Minneapolis
in bidding for the 1992 game.