I tuned in to Goodell's address late but I'm glad I caught the question about Miami hosting future Super Bowls. My impression is Goodell was much more pointed and negative toward Miami's chances than ProFootballTalk indicates in that article. When he said he was confident Miami will host them in the future I think it meant distant future, in another venue.
It wasn't hard to handicap his comments that way. Goodell went out of his way to emphasize the Miami is being left behind, that it's a great site to host the event but the event is growing all the time and will continue to do so, with the league determined to accommodate that growth. He talked about the new wave of superior venues, including Indianapolis.
In other words, Mike Dee's impression that a patched Dolphin Stadium meets the "minimum requirements" to host a Super Bowl is short sighted and moronic. I emphasized that in another thread last night. A commissioner who alters the core of the game in regards to passing rules, expands Thursday night games, hints at London expansion, makes radical changes to postseason overtime rules, moves the kickoff line, penalizes defenders for hits that were ordinary years ago, and has already demonstrated an enthusiasm to take the Super Bowl to new sites regardless of climate is not someone who you apply old standards to evaluate. We're Miami so all we need is a 6-10 stadium. Dee's comments in that Herald presser were among the most ignorant and overmatched in franchise history. If he's fooled, the county commissioners and anyone else with a role in the process will not be.
If the Dolphins want to waste hundreds of millions in plastering an already outdated and always pathetic stadium in a snooze area, let them do it solo. The league will most likely laugh. And tax payers are already chuckling.