As the Miami Dolphins pursue another Super Bowl for South Florida, Broward County might get left off the team.

Dolphins CEO Mike Dee raised the possibility of Miami-Dade going it alone in pursuit of the 2016 Super Bowl, citing Broward commissioners’ 2011 vote against raising taxes to fund a $225 million renovation of Sun Life Stadium.

“Broward County spoke loudly last year. We heard them,” Dee said in a meeting with Miami Herald reporters and editors Friday morning. He said this year’s pitch to National Football League owners for holding the 2016 Super Bowl in Miami Gardens could be a “Miami-Dade” bid instead of a “regional” bid that would include Broward, which Dee said has shown a “lack of appreciation” for the Dolphins’ role in the county’s economy.

“We will certainly take that into account as we conduct our business, and look to Miami-Dade County for our partnership,’’ he said.

It’s unclear if Dee’s remarks represented more than a political volley in the always prickly topic of public funding for private stadiums. But they hint at a major reworking of how the region pursues Super Bowls, which increasingly have been a team effort between Broward and Miami-Dade.

When the Super Bowl last came to South Florida, the NFL put its media center and official headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. Broward’s role in the game could become even larger as the National Football League considers a championship schedule that Miami-Dade has already said conflicts with its biggest tourism event, the Miami International Boat Show.

Vote defended

Nicki Grossman, Broward’s tourism director and the county’s point person for Super Bowl bids, said Friday that Broward remains eager to pursue the NFL championships. She defended the commission’s January 2011 vote as ratifying a state prohibition against Broward tax dollars going to a Miami-Dade project. And she questioned how Miami-Dade could go it alone with a Super Bowl, which in 2010 was officially headquartered in Fort Lauderdale.

“I don’t think Miami-Dade can do it financially without Broward’s help,” she said. “This is absolutely the first I have heard of this.’’

Dee emphasized the Dolphins do not control which city receives a Super Bowl, or how local organizers choose to pursue the game. But as a member of the local Super Bowl Host Committee and an NFL team, the Dolphins occupy a central role in the process that has so far brought South Florida a record 10 Super Bowls.

“Should South Florida be invited to bid for future Super Bowls, the South Florida Super Bowl Host Committee — not the Miami Dolphins — will make the ultimate call on the bid package and who participates,’’ Dee said in a statement issued Friday afternoon. “As a member of that committee, the Dolphins would encourage that consideration be given to those municipalities who are willing to be true partners in our efforts, not those who foreclose discussions and inhibit our collective efforts to attract these key economic drivers for our region.”

Rodney Barreto, the longtime chairman of South Florida’s Host Committee, said Friday it was “premature” to talk about who would participate in South Florida’s Super Bowl bid. That process will probably begin after the Feb 5 Super Bowl in Indianapolis, with the NFL inviting finalists to bid sometime before the summer. In October, owners will award the 2016 Super Bowl, a high-stakes decision for NFL cities since the league contends the game generates more than $400 million in spending.