Chicago ? NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue lashed back at Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick for criticizing instant replay, saying Thursday his comments were “intolerable.”

Tagliabue said he expected owners to keep video review as an officiating aid when it comes up for a vote at a meeting in March.

“My guess is replay will continue because they think, three-quarters or more of the clubs will think, it’s an important tool in terms of officiating in the game,” Tagliabue said.

The commissioner made his comments on the final day of the league’s fall meeting, where team owners awarded the 2008 Super Bowl to Arizona.

After two challenged calls went against his team in a victory Sunday over Denver, Billick had seen enough.

“I quit. I give up,” Billick said. “I’ve tried to be an advocate for instant replay. I’ve tried to do the company line. I’ve said the right things.

“League, I’m sorry. Dump it.”

Tagliabue said Billick’s comments were a “direct and severe violation of our rules about criticizing officiating publicly.”

“I think what Brian Billick said about replay was intolerable, unacceptable, uncalled for, and he should be fined,” Tagliabue said, adding he didn’t know if that would happen.

Earlier Thursday, Arizona beat out Tampa and Washington, D.C. for the 2008 Super Bowl.

Tampa and Washington rolled out some big names to make their pitches. Retired Gen. Tommy Franks was in Tampa’s corner, and D.C. went to bat with former Sen. Fred Thompson.

But Arizona, with a stadium shaped like a barrel cactus and featuring a retractable roof and a grass playing surface that can be rolled up, won out. The new facility, a public-private partnership in suburban Glendale, is under construction and scheduled for completion in 2006.

It will be Arizona’s second Super Bowl. Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe hosted the 1996 game between the Cowboys and Steelers.

“It’s going to be architecturally significant, and I think that’s important we make that stamp as well,” Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said of the new stadium.

Of course the weather didn’t hurt. No cold-weather city without a dome ever has played host to a Super Bowl.

“And the people in Phoenix helped them finance the stadium,” Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson said.

Tagliabue said he didn’t think the Arizona Cardinals’ gesture Monday, when on short notice they were able to play host to the Dolphins-Chargers game because of the wildfires in California, was the major factor in the decision.

“I can’t say it didn’t have an impact on somebody, but I don’t think they were at the core of the sentiment that was expressed in the room or outside of the room, for that matter,” Tagliabue said.