Workers smooth out fresh concrete in front of the Superdome in New Orleans Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Photo by Matthew Perschall, The Times-Picayune) On the desk of Jay Cicero, head of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, is the Super Bowl equivalent of a battle plan.
Instead of battalion leaders and troop movements, the poster-sized sheet laid out details of the army he and other New Orleans civic leaders will deploy to get the city ready for America's largest annual entertainment event. Hotels blocks are being booked, potholes need to be filled, parking spots leased and volunteers by the thousands organized into a force that can ensure everything runs smoothly when Super Bowl LIX arrives in the Caesars Superdome on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.
And with six months to go, the city and its top tourism officials — organized into 15 separate committees — have a lengthy to-do list. Jay Cicero, left, president and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation and the executive director of the Super Bowl LIX Host Committee, talks with Doug Thornton, a board member of the foundation, and Dennis Lauscha, president of the New Orleans Saints, during a Super Bowl LIX event on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. (Photo by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune) "There are hundreds of deliverables, a timeline for each committee and there's a lot of overlap," Cicero said during an interview at his Bucktown office to provide an update on the process.
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