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Thursday, November 8, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
NFL proposes Super Bowl pullout
Failure of Martin Luther King holiday prompts withdrawal from Arizona
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — NPL commissioner Paul Taglibaua summarily pulled the 1983 Super Bowl out of Phoenix yesterday after Arizona voters rejected a proposal to make a holiday of Martin Luther King's birthday.
"I do not believe that playing Super Bowl XXII in Arizona is in the best interests of the National Football League," Taglaibue said after the team's victory on April 13 to make a holiday of the slain civil rights leader's birthday.
While Tagliabue's statement does not make the move official, it is expected that most, if not all, of the 28 NFL teams will go along with his recommendation. A total of 21 votes are necessary to move the game, but Taggliabue has been Diego, Los Angeles or San Francisco, the other cities that bid for it.
Norman Braman, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles and chairperson of the Super Bowl site selection committee, said he thought all of the NFL teams would go along with the commissioner.
"I think it's tragic for the people who worked so hard to get the game there," he said. "But I think it would
be an affront to our public and our players if the game is played in Phoenix."
Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill said that the proposal to make King's birthday a holiday was the right thing to do and that he was disappointed both at the voters' decision and Taglibue's action.
"I was not pleased that the NFL issued its statement so quickly after this election," he said. "I can understand that the NFL felt such a statement was necessary, but it never was." He already emotional situation here.
"I am calling on the Governor and legislative leaders of Arizona to take whatever steps are necessary to enact an entitlement of the King holiday."
About 60 percent of NFL players are Black, and the league has been sensitive in recent years about calls against teammates to its coaching and front-office staffs.
Art Shell of the Los Angeles Raiders, appointed last season, is the only Black head coach in the league. Phoenix was chosen in March as the host city, although both Taglalileo and Braman said at the
time that the league could change its position if there was no holiday to honor King.
It was with that in mind that the state legislature ended nearly two decades of divisive debate last year by passing a bill making the third Monday in January Martin Luther King-Civil Rights Day in Arizona.
But King Day opponents, led by impeached former Gov. Evan Mecham, circulated petitions to force a referendum on the issue.
A similar petition drive stalled enactment of another bill passed in 1989 that created a King holiday but did away with the state's Columbus Day holiday to keep state employees from getting an additional day off.
Both issues appeared on Tuesday's ballot, and both were rejected. The King Day for Columbus Day swap was turned down by a 3-1 margin, and the holiday without the swap lost less than 15,000 votes of 1 million cast.
Gov. Rose Mofford said of the NFL's decision, "This is one of the worst blows we've had in a long time. Arizona has anything I know of."
Mofford said that in addition to
losing the Super Bowl, the defeat of the holiday would cost the state millions in lost convention business.
But Tagliabue's move got the immediate endorsement of the NFL Players Association.
Dick Berthelsen, the association's general counsel, said, "It is our belief that the Super Bowl should not be held in any state which does not honor the Martin Luther King holiday."
The NFL is not the first league to pull out of Phoenix because of the absence of a holiday honoring King. The NBA switched its league meetings in 1987 after Mecham repealed an executive order by his predecessor, Bob Cousins, that created a paid holiday in the slain civil rights leader's honor.
NBA commissioner David Stern said, "We forfeited several hundred thousand dollars of the NBA's payroll. You thank you very much, but no thanks."
He said he doubted whether the NBA, which has a majority of Black players as well as many Black coaches and executives, would consider having any future league events there.
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