weren\u2019t disappointed to lose the bid<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nThat could be sour grapes, because those who won the right to host the matches are crowing about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t sleep,\u201d Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones said recently, per Volin. \u201cThis is a great chance to associate with the worldwide love with soccer, and lets us put a little notch on our belt and share it with what soccer\u2019s about, too. They\u2019ll never be able to take away that we held those games in that stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cowboys executive Stephen Jones echoed the sentiment: \u201cWe\u2019ll be shut down all summer. But it\u2019s worth it. I mean, this is about brand and, you know, being a part of something special.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Joneses wanted to host the matches badly enough to give up their suite for the matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve got to go someplace else, but that was a part of it,\u201d Jerry Jones said. \u201cWe did a lot of things to make this work.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cowboys, Patriots, Falcons, Texans, Chargers\/Rams, Giants\/Jets, Chiefs, Seahawks, 49ers, Dolphins, and Eagles will be hosting World Cup games in their stadiums.<\/p>\n
The total revenue is projected, per Volin, to be roughly $11 billion. FIFA will pay rent for the stadiums, while keeping the revenue from sponsorships, tickets, suites, merchandise, concessions, and parking.<\/p>\n
So how much will the teams get for hosting the World Cup? Per Volin, the terms \u201chave been kept under wraps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given that folks like Jones are not known for doing bad deals, they\u2019ll surely be making more money to host the World Cup matches than they would have made in a normal summer.<\/p>\n
Still, it\u2019s a headache. Extra work, extra expenses, extra hassles. <\/p>\n
Not to mention the P.R. bruise that comes from the perception\/reality that NFL owners who are giving FIFA the surfaces it demands while stubbornly refusing to do the same for pro football players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They have to install playing surfaces that meet exacting standards. They have to change the names of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-676994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}