What's not to like? The Super Bowl returns to its best stage. Dolphins owner Steve Ross gets rewarded for spending nearly a half-billion dollars to upgrade his stadium rather than suck at the public trough like every other team owner.

The 2020 Super Bowl, coming to South Florida as announced Tuesday, even has a marketable timeline: The 100th anniversary of the NFL for lovers of round numbers; and the 54th Super Bowl for lovers of Roman Numerals.

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Ross did what owners rarely do. After failing to secure public funding, he dug deep into his deep pockets. He rebuilt his own stadium. He's already is paying $4 million in local stadium taxes each year as the owner of his stadium as opposed to the zero taxes the other pro teams here pay.

Now, as noted Tuesday by Rodney Barreto, chairman of the South Florida Super Bowl Bid Committee, this announcement wouldn't have happened if Mr. Ross didn't "write a $450 million check to renovate the stadium ..."

Ross bent in to whisper, "I wish it was $450 million."

"Uh, a $500 million check," Barreto said.

Let's put this in local perspective. The rest of our pro sports teams do what American sports owners do. They take whatever they can. The Marlins got about $500 million in public money for a new stadium.

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Then there's Ross, who actually owns his own stadium (paying $4 million a year in taxes) and writes his own checks. So with Tuesday's Super Bowl news it's time to say something rarely said to sports owners and never when their teams lose like the Dolphins:

Thank you.

Thank you for not sucking down public money. Thank you for showing America's sports owners there's another way to do business. And thank you for delivering another big event to an area that loves big events.

Greatest owner ever. Not only will we be the first team to play in a Super Bowl at home but we will be defending our own title. Thank you Mr. Ross. Just the best. We are so lucky.

*Cue all the Ross haters finding something to complain about with this... "Yeah, but..."

*Cue all the Ross haters finding something to complain about with this... "Yeah, but..."

He's a good businessman. Hopefully he finally has the front office personnel in place to give us a winning team ... that way it takes him out of the equation.

Ross has never interfered with his football people.

Except that one time when he went to interview one coach while still having another in place.

Except that one time when he went to interview one coach while still having another in place.