Miami's dreams for adding roof to stadium may be dashed by costs
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Colmaxforum_veteranOPTaxpayers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale have little interest and less money to pay for stadium upgrades that football executives say are needed for the area to extend its record of hosting 10 Super Bowls.
____________________Host Committee chairman Rodney Barreto, 52, and Dolphins chief executive Mike Dee cited studies by Sports Management Research Institute, a Florida company hired by the host committee, showing the 2007 game brought the area $400 million in direct spending.
There's not unanimous agreement on that kind of figure. The Super Bowl is worth $30 million to $90 million, said Victor Matheson, a sports economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
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