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This is Inside the Vegas Huddle,
your podcast connection to the events and initiatives

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led by the Las Vegas Super Bowl
fifty eight host Committee in advance of the

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big game at Allegiance Stadium. Welcome
to Inside the Vegas Huddle. All right,

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you are listening to Inside the Huddle, the first of many podcasts that

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we're gonna bring you from the biggest
single sporting event that's ever gonna hit Las

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Vegas. Of course, we're talking
about Super Bowl fifty eight coming up on

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February eleventh, is gonna be a
lot of fun. We'll take you behind

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the scenes what goes kind of into
the planning, the preparation and of course

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pulling off one of the biggest events
the NFL has ever had. That's going

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to be Super Bowl fifty eight.
So it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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I'm Chris Matthew, sports director at
eight News now KLAS TV here in

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Las Vegas, along with Joe Anna
Bauman, who is the morning show host.

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Was Sonny one oh six point five
and iHeart radio and boy, I'll

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tell you what, Juanna, we
are so thrilled to have this podcast and

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talk about really kind of go behind
the scenes withinside the Huddle with a terrific

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guest we have coming up right,
there's just so much planning, preparation,

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and then of course the execution leading
up to Super Bowl fifty eight. So

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during Inside the Vegas Huddle, you're
going to kind of get a behind the

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scenes of how all that magic happens, and we're going to be really talking

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to the huge playmakers. And it's
hard to believe this game kicks off now,

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Joanna, less than six months.
The anniversary was Friday, six months

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from last Friday. This game is
gonna kick off right here in Las Vegas.

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We got the movers and shakers.
Let's introduce him here. We got

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Maury Gallagher, the chairman of the
Super Bowl fifty eight Executive Committee and chairman

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of the board for Allegian Airlines.
Of course, that name Allegiance sits right

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on the side of the NFL's premier
stadium, in the NFL Allegiance Stadium in

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Las Vegas, so that's gonna be
a lot of fun where the Super Bowl

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will be played. By the way, we got Sam Joffer, who was

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President and CEO of the Las Vegas
Super Bowl Host Committee. So terrific guests

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here for our first I'm amazed we
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these are the movers and shakers as
we get ready to Super Bowl fifty year.

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Thank you guys for fitting us in
your schedule. How are you welcome?

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Thanks for having us, glad to
be here. Well, we're very

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excited to talk with you guys.
Of course, we know that you guys

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have been instrumental from start until today
six months out now leading up to Super

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Bowl fifty eight. So we're gonna
dive into some questions just to kind of

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give people a little bit behind the
scenes of the magic that has already occurred.

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Now, we know that hosting a
Super Bowl in any city it is

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no small feat. It is a
very large undertaking to really kick it off.

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Whose incredible idea was it to bring
the Super Bowl here to Las Vegas?

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And then, of course maybe talk
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process of securing that. Well,
I think without a doubt, the whole

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process to even hosts a Super Bowl
starts with getting an NFL team in your

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host city, because you have to
have a host team. And then next

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step, obviously is a stadium to
host it in. And I know the

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LVCVA and more. You can wait
in the dream team that was working on

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bringing the Raiders here. Building the
stadium, which really is kind of the

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first step to making has happened.
And then and then some of us are

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lucky enough to come in towards the
end and put together the bid to hosted

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a Bowl and then be part of
the magic at that point. But a

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lot of the heavy lifting happened in
what twenty nineteen. Actually before that,

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you go back to twenty sixteen,
twenty seventeen, when mister Davis was wanting

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to move. He didn't in Oakland. Have had their disagreements over the years,

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and he was talking to both La
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it's fair to say that Jerry Jones, who owns the Cowboys, we got

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to meet him when we were doing
the stadium, and his background store was

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very interesting. In eighty nine when
he bought the Cowboys, he was a

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newbie in the NFL and Cowboys were
losing money. It's hard to believe that

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franchise would have ever lost money,
and Al Davis the Raiders took him under

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his wing, and so fast forward
through all the kind of the last thirty

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years in the NFL and Jerry Jones
is arguably the number one guy owner in

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that team, and he got he
taught the NFL how to market and sell.

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Fact, he went had to go
to the mats and they had a

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lawsuit in nineteen ninety three ninety four
when he tried to sell individual advertising inside

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a stadium. And before that they
had a committee of five, six seven

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people and everything went through the NFL
proper. It wasn't individual teams weren't allowed

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to sell anything. And he showed
him the error and there's ways, and

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he has made those gentlemen and ladies
a lot of money since then. And

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to that end, he took mister
Davis Junior under his wing. Maybe Mark

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wouldn't quite agree with this, but
go to La come to Vegas, and

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he coached him to come to Vegas. But what you had to do is

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you had to sell the NFL on
Las Vegas. Those that have been around

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a while and then two thousands we
were being sued by the NFL for using

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the Super Bowl name, and betting
and gambling were not something that we're you

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know, in the NFL's you know
pr full You had the rules passed where

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the courts found that gambling was okay
at the state level, and you know,

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it's one of those things that's going
to come, so you'd get you

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to get on board or miss the
train. And so the NFL got there,

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and I'm sure mister Jones was just
speculating, very influential and making sure

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that Las Vegas became a city that
was interesting. And you know, you

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go get mister Davis shows up,
he makes his pitch, and this town

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understood the power of NFL and it's
been amazing. I've been here since,

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like I said, ninety two,
and it's been an entertainment capital. Now

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it's both. Yeah, there is
no city in the world like Las Vegas,

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and the NFL was the kind of
kickoff you obviously had. The Nights

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were there too, But that whole
exercise to bring the NFL here, the

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joint venture with the state, the
tacks that they put in place, the

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money they invested in the stadium,
If it's worked better any place else,

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I'd be hard pressed to figure out
where. Yeah, And when you think

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about like you were saying, Jerry
Jones was a huge advocate for bringing the

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NFL Las Vegas. He was a
big cheerleader when we were covering this story

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when they first announced, Hey,
we'd like to come here. If you

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get the funding, if they build
it will come and so forth. You

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know, like like Mary said,
Jerry Jones was a cheerleader for Las Vegas.

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He loved last day. What's the
perception now of the NFL as it

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looks at Las Vegas now, Well, you know, Sam may be closer

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to that than I am. But
you can't help but be excited about Las

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Vegas. This is an outside observer. We have one hundred and twenty thousand

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hotel rooms within a you know,
two mile walk. When we were in

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Phoenix, great place did a good
job hosting, but you sat in downtown

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and you drove twenty miles to Scottsdale
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You drove twenty miles to get to
the you know, Glendale for the field.

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It's all right here. You just
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And and another thing, when we
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Mark Badane, who is then president
of the Raiders, had us up on

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the hotel they are looking down on
the stadiums is being built. I'm not

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sure what triggered it, but he
said, you guys don't know how good

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you are. What are you talking
about. Well, the hospitality this town

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is unbelievable in hospitality and you don't
even understand it. It's just part of

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your DNA. You just do it. And I kind of stepped back and

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I go, well, you know, I think he's right, and so

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you're going to see that in spades. And you have the LVCVA, which

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is arguably the best hospitality promotional group
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at what Steve Hill and his team
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coming, They've had conversations from all
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Las Vegas today in the sports world, you're probably wanting to be here.

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And I think, yes, the
NFL is always a fan of anything that

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helps elevate the brand, helps elevate
the Shield, elevate their events, and

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is one of their if you look
at their key tent pole events between Draft

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and prob what Vegas was able to
do to help elevate those events further cemented

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the fact that I think NFL,
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or have a little bit of a
love affair going on with Las Vegas and

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what it can do for the for
the events and the brand. Well,

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mister Goodell's quote after the draft,
how was it? It was perfect?

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a pretty dour guy. Yeah.
Absolutely, yes, And I know,

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Sam, obviously you have seen so
much starting work with the NFL and the

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Super Bowl host Committee back in nineteen
ninety seven to today. You've seen all

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the different cities go through the process, go through you know, getting that

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winning bid to present day. I
mean, what type of things can you

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walk us through that really can people
can understand the significant milestones that occurred during

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a process like that. Well,
yeah, I cut my chops back in

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nineteen ninety seven. The back then, the Super Bowl is a different scale.

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We had a media center that had
maybe seventeen hundred to two thousand members

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of the media in twenty five thousand
square foot ballroom at the Hyatt next of

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the stadium. In two thousand and
two, that had grown to about thirty

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five hundred members of the media and
required a hall of the convention center.

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Then by twenty thirteen they were taking
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Six thousand members of the media,
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has been really privileged to kind of
see that. And we had gotten New

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Orleans awarded Super Bowl twenty twenty four
through a lot of different complications with the

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NFL scheduling and calendar. In our
bid to host twenty twenty four New Orleans,

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there were some languages that said,
hey, if the season changes and

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the schedule goes to seventeen weeks,
New Orleans can't host because of a little

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thing called Marti Gras that would have
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to find print in that bid said
you will allow New Orleans a chance to

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come back and bid on the next
available Super Bowl. So redid the bid,

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got twenty five awarded, that opened
up twenty four. They left a

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hole in the calendar, at which
point I was lucky enough to get the

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opportunity to come work with the LVCVA
to put together that bid. And I

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certainly would have been very happy and
content to stay in New Orleans and do

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another Super Bowl New Orleans dust off
the plans, do it like we've always

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done it. But the chance to
come here and be part of the first

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one in Las Vegas, it's it's
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being part of the history in the
timeline here. So after watching all that

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growth and knowing that there's nobody in
this country better position to accommodate their growth,

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there's also been another growth factor after
COVID. You know, we saw

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Super Bowl in twenty twenty, twenty
twenty one after COVID in the height of

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the pandemic, they got reduced to
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Then uh, more and I got
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in the Super Bowl awarded at twenty
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up. Twenty twenty was Miami,
then twenty twenty one was Tampa, then

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twenty two was LA, twenty two
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Yes, so I think I think
we got it. I think we got

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it all down. You can edit
all that outlet, But you know,

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Morey and the committee, Steve Hill
and Jeremy will be on with us in

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our executive committee for the host committee. Right after we got it awarded in

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December, went over to LA to
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see what the comeback was like after
after COVID, And that was the one

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where you started to see everything coming
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the media attendance wasn't there completely,
the sponsor by in wasn't there completely

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yet. But what we saw there
I think more you can kind of speak

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to it. I think it was. It was really interesting walking around with

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this guy who has such a great
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that came back with us after that

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trip and said, whoa, we
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is this is already a big deal
coming right out of COVID and then got

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to see it again in Phoenix together
as well. And I think that right

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now, if Super Bowl is back
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gonna be back to one hundred and
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you know. I was thinking also
when we talked about Las Vegas is

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the sports and entertainment capital the world. There are so many opportunities here in

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Las Vegas, a myriad of opportunities
with the resorts, the hotels, the

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stadium, the outlying areas. And
I keep hearing from everybody this will be

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the NFL's biggest and best party they've
ever hosted, which makes sense because there's

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so many opportunities do things. Is
that kind of what you're seeing, sam

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Oh, I think we all recognize
that Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas any

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given year is already a huge weekend. It is a favorite destination. If

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you're not going to Super Bowl,
you're coming to Vegas because you know it's

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a party for the Big Game,
feeling parties and the sports books and all

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the excitement the city brings. So
when we lay to the actual Super Bowl

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in on top of that, it's
gonna be an incredible opportunity. And what

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one of the things that Vegas brings
to the table. And we beat this

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during the bid process A lot is
we had to educate the NFL very carefully

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on what's generally at one size fits
all bid document and bid process. We

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had to say, no, a
lot of this does not apply to Vegas.

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The way transportation and hotels and special
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different here and a big part of
that was the fact that we've got these

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incredible resort partners here who are not
just hotel room providers, whereas in most

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other cities they would go and negotiate
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to sleep in. But here in
Las Vegas, it was quickly evident that

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the resort partners. Yes, they're
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need. But by the way,
we got one hundred and fifty thousand of

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them, so I think we can
carve out some for Super Bowl. But

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those properties are also an integral part
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our venues. They're part of our
transportation plan because they all have incredible fleets

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and services that they provide on a
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They're part of our safety plan.
They've got incredible security forces that we

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can layer into a Super Bowl.
So it's kind of forced everybody to think

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about this super Bowl very differently because
of everything that Las Vegas brings that they

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will well, just as an outsider
looking at this process, and you get

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a notebook that's an inch thick with
small print of all the stuff you have

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to think about, and there's ten
major sections. Security, obviously, transportation,

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hotels. We're talking about fifteen thousand
volunteers, So how do you get

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fifteen thousand people to show up for
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they're all dressed properly, make sure
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I've had the privilege of being in
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to come up to speed and the
talent in this town, and you go

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through each of these ten sections and
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this isn't like colly g I sure
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on their game. They're right now, they're here hotels. There's guys with

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thirty years of experience doing this stuff. Security. The Las Vegas Metro has

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done security since the you know,
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that's not to say others can't do
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you're just going to see an experience
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exceptional, and it's going to be
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not smooth, but like what I
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you know, it's it's tough to
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going to have, I think,
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airplanes. That's yes, where's that
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from Phoenix and I sat an hour
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had a hold here in Las Vegas
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from the party. And you bring
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recent super Bowl in Arizona. What
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there that you're like, up,
that's not happening in Vegas, or maybe

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that is happening in Vegas. Well, again, i'm the amateur Sam Scott

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better, but it's just a physicality. You can't overcome twenty miles to get

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to some of the parties, twenty
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at the stadium, I think the
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a problem. I know we sat
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just like a bad jam, you
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but you know, it was a
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I don't think we're going to have
some of those same problems. If

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we do have problems, logistics will
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to get to at times, but
you can walk there. Sure. Well,

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it's like like Sam was saying,
you were even saying that you're you're,

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you're down to the nitty gritty just
in terms of how many people are

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going to walk over Hacienda A Street
over I fifteen, or how many people

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are going to travel this way or
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guard around the stadium. Talking about
that little that's interesting. I mean back

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to when we were saying earlier too
that applies to that is that we're very,

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very lucky that we have those eleven
sections of the bid document that we

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had to sign off on get signed
off on by a separate entity called the

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Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee.
So we are a nonprofit signs the contracts

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with the NFL, raises all the
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that were put forth in that bid, heavily supported by a lot of great

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stakeholders here, the LVCVA and the
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step in that nonprofit though, is
we have a very small, lean mean

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staff of about fourteen people that are
doing all this. We couldn't do it

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without this host committee structure and this
nonprofit structure, which consists of nine executive

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committee members that oversee subcommittees. These
eleven subcommittees that align with all those obligations

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we have with the NFL. So
there's a Transportation Committee, a mediumpr Committee,

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a hotel committee, public safety list, goes on and on. This

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committee helped identify incredible chairs to volunteer
their time to chair these subcommittees and extendimentations

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to anywhere from fifteen to forty members
of each committee that are assisting our staff

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and making sure that Las Vegas' best
interests, best practice is best expertise is

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brought to the table for all of
these details so that our staff can lean

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heavily on them, and we do
lean heavily on and they all meet monthly,

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so we start doing the math.
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serving on all those committees. They're
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meetings every month that we're doing on
top of full board meetings where everybody gets

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together. So we've got a Transportation
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subgroup calls monthly group meetings, working
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providers to help make sure that this
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and for the best case for success. So to your point, they are

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looking at and asking those questions,
how many people are coming by the hour

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on game day across you know,
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back. Let's take a look at
the hourly breakdowns. Then let's take a

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look at the entry points the stadiums. It's been reconfigured because as stadium's gonna

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look nothing like it does for a
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you're taking no account the public safety
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that goes in place for Super Bowl. So where you see all this great

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parking for a Raiders game, that's
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house, staging of media production trucks, and and halftime rehearsal space. So

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that creates trickle down problems that we
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community in the neighborhood to find alternate
parking solutions or alternate transportation plans altogether,

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and what's a different way to get
people to stadium. So there are a

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lot of smart people volunteering their time
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out. Yeah. I think that's
a tough one because a lot of people,

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I think don't wrap their heads around
the fact that this is not just

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a Raiders game, right, and
so thinking about that perspective from the outside,

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so much has to change and so
much has to happen. That's different.

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to. And you know the complexity, the size, the scale. And

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I've worked in a reasonably sized business, this very few organizations, and you

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do it for one day and one
day only, and God help if you

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don't get it right. No,
but make no mistake, this could not

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and this would not happen without an
incredible destination that is solidified with stakeholders all

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working toward a common goal, and
without the expertise of those people weighing in

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on medium pr and transportation and public
safety. And I could go on and

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on and on. This just doesn't
happen. It cannot happen with our we

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have a great staff, but the
volunteer expert from every level, from our

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committee volunteers all the way to the
nine thousand plus volunteers that will be using

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throughout the community to help welcome fans. We want to make sure that the

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welcome experience and the hospitality that's shown
here in Vegas is second and none,

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and that the minute somebody steps off
the plane at the airport, that they

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are treated like a VIP and that
they get that crazy, crazy Super Bowl

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meats Las Vegas vibe that only can
happen here and very exciting. Let me

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ask you this too. We got
the resort corridor, you got the stadium

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where all the people will be gathering. What about as the preparation continues and

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you count down to that February eleventh, Super Bowl fifty eight, what will

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the average citizen in Las Vegas maybe
kind of wants to partake in some of

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this stuff and have some fun associated
with the Super Bowl. Are there going

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to be things for us, the
average common Las Vegan. No, they

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won't even know the Super Bowls happen. There will be There will be no

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shortage of wild and crazy things going
on that week because you got Summerland,

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you got Henderson, you got these
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it'll all start on Monday night of
Super Bowl Week. So Opening Night is

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the first official event of Super Bowl
week, and that is when the two

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teams have arrived. It's the media's
first opportunity to interview them. It's quite

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the production. It's nationally broadcast,
but there will be publicly available tickets for

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that, so that'll be the first
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Two is to go participate Nobody Night
and see that circus spectacle of what happens

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on Monday Night. And then will
that be at Team Mobile or will it

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be at the stadium. That will
be at a venue that we're going to

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announce on August twenty. Thank you
for that beautiful segue to August. The

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next episode will not the NFL's coming
to town, and we are jointly doing

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a very exciting press conference that day
where we're going to kind of give everybody

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a first look at what Super Bowl
is gonna look like here in Vegas.

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So a lot of the events that
we've been talking about for months and that

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where they're going to be will be
unveiled. A lot of the community programming

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that we're doing is going to be
unveiled, whether that's environmental programming or community

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affairs initiatives and and uh different efforts
there. We'll talk about a lot of

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the people that are making this happen
in the NFL will participate in the press

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conference. It'll be an incredible day
and give us a couple of weeks and

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you'll have a front row sea.
I cannot wait that long. I'm impatient.

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So the Super Bowl, Now,
let's let's just talk about the volunteers

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that you've that you've you know,
participated and gotten and these people are helping.

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Was that a big, big challenge
in this town? Like marisays,

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this town is so tremendous in terms
of giving back and helping and patting each

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other on the back. Would you
agree this is a it's a it's a

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big city, a two point five
million, but it still has that small

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town feel of I got your back, you got my back. Oh,

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it's definitely a big little town.
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and the scale. I don't think
any place on Earth is constructed to have

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the ingress egress of people coming in
for the number of people here, the

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ratio, there's always a factor of
what ten to fifteen twenty times the normal

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population that it's in this town just
because of the size of what it does.

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And so you build systems and processes
to do that, from coming through

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the airport, from driving from the
LAS to all those ways you get here,

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and you know, this is a
bigger weekend, but it's pretty much

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a lot of what we do already. Yeah, So for those locals who

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are looking that have already signed up
the volunteer I was shocked, honestly.

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Usually that recruitment effort to get those
nine thousand volunteers that have gone through every

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step of the process from filling out
the application to uploading their identification to providing

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a headshot and getting scheduled for an
orientation and a training that's usually a two

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to three month process at least,
with a daily checking of how many we

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had today, how many we had
today, and activating our media channels and

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activating our social media and trying to
recruit, recruit, recruit, And I

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don't if I remember correctly. We
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I think by Thursday or Friday already
hit the seven thousand number and they just

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kept trickling in after that. So
we're well over nine thousand volunteers that are

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that have signed up to do that, and it speaks volumes about a the

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excitement in LAS Vegas to be part
of it, be the spirit of of

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of of giving here in time here, and they're going to be an integral

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part of what we do. Again, like I said earlier, you know

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we need that that VIP treatment from
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everywhere you turn it super Bowl and
more. You've seen it in Phoenix

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a little bit. They weren't as
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demographics, but those volunteers become a
great touch point with all those visitors that

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are here. So we couldn't have
been more thrilled with the response the community

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came. And you know that that
volunteer force is not replacing any jobs.

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That was some of the feedback.
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our first Super Bowl here in Vegas, and a lot of questions about that

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volunteer program. But we're going to
tap out everybody who does this on a

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day to day basis or part time
business for being ambassadors at trade shows and

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working registration boots and things like that. Those aren't what our volunteers are doing.

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We're gonna every body here in Vegas
it does that on a regular basis,

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will still have those and more opportunities
throughout the week between the NFL,

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their partners, the other events that
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time for the entire tourism industry.
These volunteers are brought in to represent the

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community and to do some of those
things that normally you wouldn't see. So

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when you are just meeting and greeting
and being a friendly a friendly face talking

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about how great Vegas is is not
just a great place to visit, but

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it's a great place to work and
play and maybe come back here and live,

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we never know. Absolutely. Can
you pull back the curtain a little

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bit and tell us maybe about some
of those special elements that you're incorporating to

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really reflect the spirit of Las Vegas. Well, I think one of the

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things we've been very adamant about is
that we want to make sure we bring

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the Super Bowl out to Las Vegas. To the community. It is much

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more than just a game on Sunday
at Allegiance Stadium for sixty thousand plus you

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know, Ish people. It's more
than just the fan fest that will be

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happening, but the NFL produces we
as a host committee, felt and obligation

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to extend this out, So you're
going to be hearing later about some really

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exciting, big event activations and things
that will do so that anybody who wants

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to be part of Super Bowl'll be
able to come out and participate in different

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activities, whether that's activations, whether
it's music and food and autograph sessions and

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all those fun things that you would
imagine that we will be unveiling at the

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appropriate time. I think the thing
I learned as a neo fight I haven't

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been to one Super Bowl many years
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a marvelous job. But you know, I'm not much of a partygoer.

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But this town, you know,
is going to do things that people haven't

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understood. And after going to see
a couple of them in La and here

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our Phoenix, the ability to kind
of put it all together, to be

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as organized as you're going to be, and more importantly, we've done it

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before and so all that stuff is
going to pay dividends as we get down

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the road here. But uh,
you know, having guys like Sam,

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having all these professionals running the committees, it's going to come together. There's

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going to be some issues, but
I think we'll recover very well as a

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result of that. So yeah,
I'm couldn't be. When I took the

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job as a committee chairman, I
really, you know, I knew I

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wasn't going to do a lot.
More importantly, I needed to know that

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the guys were going to be here
doing this stuff. Knew what they were

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doing, and Sam and and you
know coming in behind and particularly the LBCVA.

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Kudos to those guys. They're really
good at this stuff. It's a

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top notch professional team. And I'm
along for the ride, so to speak.

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But I'm I'm their biggest cheerleader,
you know. You know what I'm

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excited about coming up here. When
they started announcing the acts, the halftime

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acts and so forth, and we
had the CBS NFL crew in doing some

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promo stuff about two months ago,
so I asked them, I want to

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ask each of you also, if
you could pick any halftime act for Super

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Bowl fifty eight, no matter who
it is, who Marie, who would

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you like to have as the Super
Bowl act for fifty eight here in Vegas.

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I think that's gonna be one of
the tough ones to top last year's.

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They rolled out these hundred yards of
whatever you call those things and then

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elevated two hundred people up to one
hundred feet and they did an act up

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there Herborne. So I'm the wrong
guy recall the pick. Well, you

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kind of wonder if it's going to
be a group of lofts like the Killers

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and Wayne Newton and a lot of
people talking about that, dragons all the

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Vegas, or will it be you
know, a residency stars. Yeah,

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that's gonna be interested. Sam,
how about you? Who would you like

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to have none? I'm gonna ask
Joanna who let's put let's put a cobby

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on that first. Uh. You
know, the halftime show selection process isn't

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a pay grade way much higher than
me. Apple Apple will play into that.

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Jay Z's production company that produces the
halftime show CBS. You know,

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it's very very calculated process, but
we have and will continue to always advocate

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that personally, I missed the old
ensemble halftime shows that wasn't just one headliner.

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I agree, I love you had
you know, I'm not saying the

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up with people model that one,
but when you had four or five acts

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that were coming together within a theme
and performing and it's who's next, Who's

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next? And oh I would love
to see something like that that celebrates Las

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Vegas rich history with with live entertainers, and so that's my personal take off.

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That's almost that's mine kindgo with Sam. I'd love to see the Killers

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and imagine Dragons and panic at the
disco and maybe throw in Way Newton a

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couple of what Vegas is OK and
do that and all this hologram. I

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think I'm on board with Sam as
well. I mean, in my mind,

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I'd love to see some of those
Just Vegas Residency stars, right.

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We got Garth Brooksy, got Lady
Gaga, I got a death everybody coming

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to have already performed that. I
but have them all to your points and

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to have them all together. Yeah, it could be a tribute to some

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of those artists. It could be. Yeah, it's a good point.

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We got to put it out there
on the universe. Yeah. I do

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trust, and we have had conversation
with the NFL. We do trust that

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that halftime show will be an incredible
representation in Las Vegas and the destination one

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way or another, whether it's the
talent, whether it's the staging, the

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costumes, the props, I think
it's going to be an incredible showcase of

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us and at the end of the
day, that's one of the biggest reasons

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the LVCVA credit for for for for
uh for believing in this so strongly.

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But that representation on TV to those
hundred and however many millions of viewers is

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an incredible, un intangible asset and
benefit of hosting Super Bowls. The eyes

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of the world will be on Las
Vegas for the game and the halftime show

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and reinforcing the cva's constant message that
we are the greatest arena on Earth and

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Super Bowl is only one of many
events that are going to follow in the

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you know, yeah, fill that
stadium. It's it's well, what Las

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Vegas has becomes frement when you think
of the f one. You got the

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NBA Cup coming in December, February, you have the Super Bowl, then

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you have the Frozen Four, the
Final Four, it's just college championship will

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be here. Sam's gonna want to
move here and live here forever. I

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think we've got a hook at him. Good good, We don't want to

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let him go. That's great.
Well, here here's a little tidbit that

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part of the reason we did the
naming rights with the Allegiance the stadium last

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year was the number one billboard stadium
in the world. Ye did one hundred

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and eighty five million dollars of non
football business. The next closest was LA

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with one hundred million, hundred and
ten. So everybody wants to come to

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Vegas. Yeah, if you're not
here, you're not in the middle.

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Excellent. The countdown to the big
game, Super Bowl fifty eight it is

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on. Obviously you got a very
behind the scene sneak peak of the planning,

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the preparation, the execution, and
what's to come for Las Vegas.

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First of many, Oh yeah,
first of many, first of many.

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The Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee
and Inside the Vegas Huddle would not be

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possible without our incredible sponsors. We
would like to thank the following sponsors,

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Caesar's Entertainment, Howard Hughes Corporation,
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Host Committee would also like to thank
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of Nevada, and the Las Vegas
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the following Community Affairs program supporters.
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