Super Bowl's Arizona host may be on the hook for millions

CBS ^ | 1/24/15

[SoFloFreeper]

....the mayor of Glendale, Arizona - home to Super Bowl XLIX - is questioning the money-making potential of this year's big game, CBS News' David Begnaud reports.

"I think if you looked in the till at the end of the day, I think you'll have less money in it than came in," said Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers.

Weiers suspects that when the sun sets on Super Bowl XLIX, the only real loser may be his city.

"I'm sure that we're going to spend $3 million," Weiers said. "I would hope, in tax revenues, that we can actually account for well over a million, probably 1.2, 3."

Roughly, that would be a $2 million loss....

[Mr. Jeeves]

the bulk of the revenue is going to Phoenix, since that is where the fans are staying, and where the runup events are taking place.

Works for us in Scottsdale - we get all of the tourist cash and none of the headaches. :) But the Phoenix Open is going on this weekend, too - so we still have way too much traffic.