Source: NFL begins exploring Super Bowl XLIX relocation options

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Even as momentum continues to build against Arizona's controversial bill that would allow businesses to deny service to gay couples on religious grounds, the NFL on Wednesday morning began investigating the necessary steps to move next season's Super Bowl from the Phoenix area, if the proposal becomes law, a source close to the situation confirmed.

The Tampa Bay area finished as the runner-up and was the only other finalist in the bidding for Super Bowl XLIX, which was awarded to Arizona in October 2011, and would in all likelihood be the NFL's first option for relocating the game at this relatively late date. Next season's Super Bowl is scheduled to be played at University of Phoenix Stadium in suburban Glendale, Ariz., but the religious rights measure known as Senate Bill 1062 might jeopardize the area's host duties.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has until the end of the day Saturday to veto the bill, sign it into law, or ignore it. While a host of Arizona business leaders this week have urged Brewer to veto the proposal, the NFL is taking seriously the possibility that it will become law, likely prompting the league to pull the plug on an Arizona Super Bowl for the second time in its history.

The NFL moved its 1993 Super Bowl from the Phoenix area to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., in reaction to Arizona voting down the effort to establish a state holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fall of 1990. After the King holiday measure passed in 1992, the NFL awarded its 1996 Super Bowl to Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20140226/super-bowl-xlix-relocation-arizona/?mobile=no

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It's a good thing for Arizona that the bill was vetoed, but if it crops up again, it's nice to see the NFL will stand with LGBT people.

[BlueStreak]

1. The NFL ought to proceed with a formal reevaluation of the 2015 site

The fact that these lunatics reversed this one obscene law, only when given extreme pressure, doesn't really change the fact that the Arizona is not a place that is good for the NFL brand. These aholes are going to pass more crazy laws between now and SB 2015.

The NFL should notify AZ that they are officially on probation and that the NFL is proceeding with contingency plans until such time as they get better assurance that this group of dicks in the legislature will not further embarrass the NFL. You have to deal with these nitwits like the 3rd-graders they choose to act like.