NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has not ruled...

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has not ruled out the 1993 Super Bowl being played in Phoenix.

Speaking Thursday night at a fund-raiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in Richmond, Va., Tagliabue also discounted claims the rejection of a Martin Luther King holiday by Arizona voters came as a reaction to the NFL’s threat to move the game if the holiday was not adopted.

“I’ve told the people in Phoenix that we’re trying to keep the door open and trying to act in a fair-minded and responsible way,” Tagliabue said. “We’re not trying to do anything punitive. And there are people in the community who hope that something could be done and would be responsible for that.”

Gov. Rose Mofford estimated that losing the Super Bowl would cost Arizona $200 million in lost revenue.