Art Rooney II Says A Super Bowl In Pittsburgh Would Be “Great”

Steelers president Art Rooney II said Thursday he’s interested in exploring the potential of bringing the Super Bowl to Pittsburgh — as long as the community as a whole is prepared to rally behind the idea, Mark Belko of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.

“I think it would be great for our city,” he said. “This, in some people’s mind, is the birthplace of professional football. We certainly have a great tradition of being a football kind of town. I think it would be a great thing for us to do at some point.”

But Mr. Rooney, who has served on the National Football League committee that awards the game to cities, stressed that an event of such magnitude would require an “enormous commitment of time and resources” from the business and public sectors.

And it would help if the team had those extra 3,000 seats at Heinz Field it has been fighting over with its landlord.

“When you look at the breadth and scope [of the bids], it really is a community effort. It’s just a broad community effort and it takes a lot of work,” he said.