Fort Worth Getting Super Excited For Super Bowl
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - Workers on Fort Worth's Main Street chisel off mortar from old bricks and carefully replace them into the street that leads to Sundance Square.
It appears to be routine maintenance work, or sprucing up for upcoming Super Bowl visitors. In fact, they've just installed fiber optic lines to aid ESPN's Super Bowl coverage which will be based in Sundance Square.
For everything you see, Fort Worth is preparing for the Super Bowl, there's much more you don't see.
"Its crunch time now," said Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief. "When you talk about, 'Well, when Super Bowl gets here...', folks, its here!"
A small video box tops the city's website, which is now Fort Worth's first welcome to potential Super Bowl fans.
"We're ready to open our doors and roll out that read carpet on Super Week," Mayor Moncrief says in the online video message. The city has dubbed the week of events in Fort Worth leading up to the Super Bowl as Super Week.
The city hopes to show the world it is ready to host all visitors with the website. All of its resources are layered through the one location.
"We're thinking about everything from somebody having a twisted ankle downtown to somebody getting lost and trying to figure out what the best place to park is," said Fort Worth spokesman Jason Lamers.
The city references extended shuttle routes to The Arts District and Stockshow, is maps out street closures, airports and even offers places to stay in North Texas. And the city knows this is its first impression world wide. "That one addage that you only get one opportunity to make a good first impression? We plan on blowing their doors off," said Mayor Moncrief. "We are really, really excited. Fort Worth and the entire North Texas region will be rockin for Super Bowl.
