Sorry to give my opinion in GQ, but y’all do realize that where the SuperBowl is hosted has nothing to do with the actual game, fairness for the teams or players and everything to do with money, right??
The SuperBowl is in Detroit this year to please all of Paul Tagliabue’s Motor City cronies. They go to New Orleans and Miami so often so that all the corporate types and lobbyists have a nice place to take clients, play golf and enjoy the nightlife away from their wives. If the NFL was worried whether Joe Fan could afford to go to the game ticket prices would not start out at $700.
They will throw a bone to places like Jacksonville every once in awhile, but who knows what kind of payoffs took place to get the NFL to have it there. They will never go back there, mark my words.
Here in Kansas City (Note to the OP: An all-Missouri SuperBowl could involve the Kansas City (MO) Chiefs vs the St. Louis Rams) Lamar Hunt has been begging to have a SuperBowl in KC since Arrowhead was built. This year the NFL “committed” to host a SuperBowl here if the team builds a roof over the stadium!!!
Hey, I know!! Let’s just get the taxpayers to pay for it! Then we’ll charge them $700 if they want to come to the game!
It will be on the ballot in April… :rolleyes:
(Disclaimer: I am a huge Chiefs and NFL fan in general, I’m just tired of teams asking for local taxpayers to pay for their stadiums and improvements)
Detroit is also the home to the US auto industry, based in Detroit (for the time being at least) and which has been and continues to be a huge sponsor of the NFL. I wouldn’t be surprised if St. Louis’ domed stadium got a Super Bowl some day, based solely on how much money the NFL has made from Anheiser-Busch’s beer advertising money.
That’s the government PTB’s, right? Any private entrepreneur could build one, too, I assume. Anyway it isn’t “If they come, we will build it”, but the other way around.
As The Daily Show pointed out last night, at least the 30,000 workers about to be laid off by Ford have the consolation of having the SuperBowl in their city this year.
They have had similar measures on the ballots for several years now and so far all of them have failed. We are a “metro-plex” or whatever you want to call it that includes 2 states and many counties. Last time it was a bi-state issue and was voted down–not enough of the counties that voted passed it.
This time the measure is on the ballot in Jackson County, MO, which is where the stadiums (also KC Royals baseball–I use the term loosely in the case of the Royals–play next door to Arrowhead) are located. Jackson County was the only county on the MO side to vote in favor of the stadium issue last time. So they are trying everything they can to get it pushed through. They change the terms every time…this time they want to add handling fees to baseball tickets and make people outside of Jackson county pay more to park!!! at Royals/Chiefs games (currently $20 Chiefs, $8 Royals), in addition to a sales tax increase.
I seriously doubt the measure will pass, but there will be a ton of hype starting up here in a few weeks. The dreaded “pass it or teams will go bye-bye” will be trotted out, as well as the “Pass it and we can get a Super Bowl!!!” pie-in-the-sky tidbit.
It is indeed the government, in particular the Coliseum Commission, which consists of members of State, County, and City of L.A. government officials, so it’s a tough nut to crack.
Two owners of the Dodgers: Peter O’Malley and Frank McCourt have floated trial balloons about building a football stadium in the area of Dodger Stadium and they got shot down.
There was also an attempt to build a stadium in Carson, but that plan never got anywhere and instead they have a soccer stadium and tennis facility.
It’s not easy to raise the capital to build a sports stadium on one’s own. Not only is it expensive, but the zoning and permits aren’t easy to come by.
They stopped calling it that after Danny-Boy Snyder took Jack Kent Cook’s name off the stadium that he built.
The Redskins have also been lobbying to hold a Super Bowl too because the ‘Skins have the largest capacity stadium in the league (94k+). Oh, yeah and IT’S THE FREAKIN’ NATIONS CAPITOL!
So I just imagined seeing all those Bud Bowl commercials over the past umpteen years. :rolleyes:
I’ll take you word for it that Coors is the “official” beer of the NFL this year. Trust me, at the Cleveland Browns Stadum beer bottle riot several years ago, all brands (Bud, Miller and Coors) were being thrown onto the field.
I think the real reason that the NFL wants to keep to warm weather venues, beyond the games itself, it for the half time show. The NFL has these extravaganzas in order to keep fans in their seats at home, so they can change millions for their commercials. If that half time show gets snowed out, or had the potential to get snowed out, it would cost the league millions.
Raljohn was “undone” when Dan Snyder bought the team. He also renamed the stadium from “Jack Kent Cooke Stadium” to “FedEx Field”. So much for JKC’s decades of effort.
It would have been difficult to move the thread to the Game Room when it was last active, since that was more than two years before the forum was established.
