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The NFL announced yesterday that Minneapolis beat out Indianapolis and New Orleans to host one of the world's biggest sporting spectacles, the Super Bowl, for the second time.

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The first Super Bowl was played there in the now-demolished Metrodome in 1992.  The person in charge of coordinating all the logistics surrounding that game was Paul Ridgeway, a prominent Twin Cities event organizer at the time.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Ridgeway about the big game then, and the impact it had on Minnesota.

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The NFL announced yesterday that Minneapolis beat out Indianapolis and New Orleans to host one of the world's biggest sporting spectacles, the Super Bowl, for the second time. The person in charge of coordinating all the logistics surrounding that game was Paul Ridgeway, a prominent Twin Cities event organizer at the time.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with him.

Preparations are underway for the 2018 Super Bowl which will be played in the new Vikings stadium currently under construction in Minneapolis.  It was announced yesterday that the Twin Cities beat out Indianapolis and New Orleans to host one of the world's biggest sporting spectacles for the second time.  The first Super Bowl in the Twin Cities was played in the now-demolished Metrodome in 1992.  The person in charge of coordinating all the logistics surrounding that game was Paul Ridgeway, a prominent Twin Cities event organizer at the time.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Ridgeway about the big game then, and the impact it had on Minnesota.

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