INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A group of eighth-graders is headed across the country to deliver Indianapolis' bid to host the 2012 Super Bowl to NFL team owners.

The 32 students will travel with their chaperones - and large briefcases containing the city's bid documents - to cities with National Football League franchises.

NFL team owners plan to vote on the Super Bowl site at their annual meeting near Atlanta later this month. Indianapolis is competing against Phoenix and Houston. Indianapolis lost out to Dallas last year in a bid to host the 2011 game.

The leader of the city's bid effort says sending students to deliver the bid documents is a way to show team owners that the whole community wants the game.

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