MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:
Super Bowl Urban XLV Urban Forestry Project
First of 13 tree-planting projects being done as part of the NFL Environmental Program for Super Bowl XLV

WHERE:
Dr. Robert Cluck Linear Park – North Section
(1601 E. Randol Mill  Road, Arlington, TX)

WHEN:
T
hursday, June 17, 2010, 11:00 a.m.– Noon

WHO:
JACK GROH, Director, NFL Environmental Program
LESLIE NIXON, Miami Dolphins/Super Bowl XLIV Host Committee
TONY FAY, North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee

PRESTON PEARSON, former Dallas Cowboy (1975-80)

MEL LeBLANC, City of Arlington Council Member; District 1

PATRICK LITTLE, BETSY ORTON; Texas Trees Foundation
Representative from the Texas Forest Service

Pop Warner Football Players and Cheerleader

CONTACT Jack Groh, NFL Environmental Program, (401)952-0886
Clare Graff, NFL Communications (212)450-2435

More information

Over the past six years, the NFL Environmental Program has planted more than 20,000 trees in Super Bowl host communities. This will be the first of more than a dozen tree plantings in North Texas and will coincide with the final tree planting of Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida the same week. Broward County in Florida is sending a gold shovel used to plant their final tree to Texas for this planting of the first tree. South Florida is also providing the tree – a Live Oak , a species that is native to both Texas and Florida.

Dozens of youngsters from Pop Warner Football will participate in this event and the many events beginning in the fall of this year throughout North Texas. The trees planted for Super Bowl XLV will become part of a long-term project to monitor the environmental benefits of all the thousands of trees planted in connection with Super Bowl.