Tuesday, October 28, 2014

It is a non-profit, after all

Many non-profits need volunteers in order to meet their goals. Naturally, the NFL is looking for volunteers for this year's Super Bowl in Arizona. They only need a few - like 10,000.

The league drives a hard bargain with cities that host the Super Bowl. Here's what its getting from Minneapolis, site of the 2018 Super Bowl:

    every cent of ticket revenue 
 · 35,000 free parking spaces 
 · Free ads in local newspapers and on radio stations, and lots of free billboards 
· All ATMs at the stadium must be those with NFL-approved credit cards 
 · Free presidential suites in the top hotels 
 · If cellphone reception isn't quite good enough around and about, then Minneapolis has to build the NFL sufficient new cellphone towers 
 · The NFL even unsuccessfully tried to demand the right to select the only vendors at the airport — the public airport — who could sell NFL merchandise.

That's the kind of support most non-profits get. Right?

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