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About Jim Steeg
- Jim Steeg (born November 29, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American sports executive.
- He is considered the one individual who is responsible for growing the Super Bowl into the most popular one-day sporting event.Steeg is a sports business, stadium and events consultant, advising companies on a variety of subjects.
- Included among the companies and entities he has worked and consulted with are the National Hockey League (NHL), the Pac-12 Conference, USC, UCLA, the Seidler/O'Malley Family in the purchase of the San Diego Padres, Qualcomm, STATS LLC, SMRI, Helms Briscoe, The Buckeye Store, the Rose Bowl, the Balboa Park 100th Anniversary celebration, Cleatskins, Prep Athlete, Frosty Towel, Elite Services and Multi Ventures Protection, and he has helped formulate Community Force, a national program for charitable fundraising.
- He was the Director of the inaugural Pac-12 Football Championship Game, and he was the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the United States Football League (USFL).
- Also, he was an Advisor to the Board of Directors of ePass, which developed technology to revolutionize the ticketing process in sports and events.
- He organized the first of Shaun White's Air+Style at the Rose Bowl in 2014.
- He was appointed by Mayor Kevin Faulconer to San Diego's Citizens Stadium Advisory Group (CSAG) in 2015 that identified a site and financing plan for a new football stadium in 110 days.
- He is on the Board of Pac Pro, a spring football league set to commence in 2018.Steeg also has lectured and taught at universities.
- In Spring 2017, he taught an OLLI course at Duke University ("Contemporary Issues in American Sports").
- He designed and taught a portion of a course at San Diego State University on collective bargaining.
- At Wake Forest, he designed and taught a course in contemporary accounting.
- He has taught at Biscayne College.
- Additionally, he is a regular expert in sports business on national and local sports radio and TV shows, and he also has hosted sports radio talk shows. In 2002, Steeg was honored as a member of the inaugural class of the Special Events Hall of Fame.
- In 2005, he was recognized as the Hoosier Celebrity of the Year by the Mad Anthony's, a charitable organization in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he spent his teenage years.
- In 2008, he received the Pete Rozelle Award from the New Orleans Touchdown Club.
- He was selected to the DeMolay Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Phi Delta Theta Sports Hall of Fame the same year. Steeg received a Masters of Business Administration from Wake Forest University and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
- He lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife Jill Lieber, a writer.
- He has two children. Steeg has served on the boards of the Downtown YMCA of San Diego, the Make A Wish Foundation of San Diego, and the University of San Diego Athletic Department Executive Cabinet.
- He was co-chair of the Special Events Committee for the 2008 United States Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines in LaJolla, Calif.
- He has served on the boards of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of San Diego, Hunger Related Events, Babcock School at Wake Forest and Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, Fla.
- He was instrumental in raising funds for the Ramsey (N.J.) High School Athletic Department.
- He currently is Chairman of The AthLife Foundation.
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