Wall Street Pays $70 Million Tab for Super Bowl in Its Backyard
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The most expensive stadium in the U.S. drew the Super Bowl to the New York area for the first time. Wall Street is making it happen.
The National Football League’s championship is a home game for the shapers of the nation’s economy, with 11 of 29 host sponsors coming from the financial services industry. The event is costing $70 million to stage, as much as five times last year’s in New Orleans, and companies with revenue of $339 billion last year are paying a big part of the bill.