Even during the Super Bowl, Dallas has its eyes on the Olympic Games...

[madinmaryland]

Even as the Dallas area bursts its buttons, hosting the Super Bowl for the first time in Jerry Jones' new American coliseum, the city itself has developed an even greater itch it wants to scratch. OK, here we go again.

The International Olympic Committee may have dismissively rejected New York and Chicago in recent Olympic competitions, and FIFA may have chose little Qatar over the U.S. for the 2022 World Cup, but Dallas is growing ever more determined to declare its candidacy for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Is that masochistic? Are we just the giant sugar daddy nobody in sport loves? When the vote is taken in 2013, will Dallas even have a chance against other presumed old world contenders like Rome, Madrid, Istanbul -- especially now that Turkey is sort of the "it" country -- or Dubai, the luxurious Oz of the Persian Gulf?

The fact is that the IOC's Europhile members prefer to take our musty television money, while giving the glamorous Games to somebody else.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/frank_deford/02/02/dallas.olympic.games/index.html#ixzz1CuPH9gDL

So, Jerry Jones will be hosting the Summer Olympics of 2020??

:P