Super Bowl locations......

[NINEster]

I would like to see a Seattle Super Bowl.

Don't think the city has pushed for it.

The MetLife Super Bowl opened the doors officially for it to maybe happen.

Does Seattle get really cold weather in late January/February? Say sub 30 degrees? Snow?

Maybe one day we might get the ultimate of outdoor settings.....Soldier Field. If ever the league is ballsy enough to potentially upset the fragile fair weather crowd who attends these games.

 

[mrt144]

I would like to see a Seattle Super Bowl.

Don't think the city has pushed for it.

The MetLife Super Bowl opened the doors officially for it to maybe happen.

Does Seattle get really cold weather in late January/February? Say sub 30 degrees? Snow?

Maybe one day we might get the ultimate of outdoor settings.....Soldier Field. If ever the league is ballsy enough to potentially upset the fragile fair weather crowd who attends these games.

It gets to maybe the 30s sometimes mid 20s but snow is relatively rare. We actually do a good clip of business with conventions during this time because we can offer better weather than many midwest and northern cities while being way more price competitive with southern/warmer cities.

 

[Sgt. Largent]

Seattle has to remain the only city that built a new stadium and didn't get a SB in the past 15 years.

 

[Laloosh]

Seattle has to remain the only city that built a new stadium and didn't get a SB in the past 15 years.

Probably saw that we couldn't vacate a street to get a franchise back.

 

[KiwiHawk]

The NFL generally wants a stadium capacity of 70,000 + for a Super Bowl. Century Link had an initial capacity well below that and while recent additions have increased capacity to 69,000, it's well past the time it could be considered a new stadium.

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

I guess if you're not in Florida, Texas or California or a dome stadium you're screwed. Got it. Why not just play the game in St. Louis? They meet all the critera and are literally the in the center of the country.

 

[chris98251]

I guess if you're not in Florida, Texas or California or a dome stadium you're screwed. Got it. Why not just play the game in St. Louis? They meet all the critera and are literally the in the center of the country.

Because the NFL doesn't want a Super Bowl in a silent Stadium

 

[MizzouHawkGal]

I guess if you're not in Florida, Texas or California or a dome stadium you're screwed. Got it. Why not just play the game in St. Louis? They meet all the critera and are literally the in the center of the country.

Because the NFL doesn't want a Super Bowl in a silent Stadium

Given the Superbowl is usually silent unless Pittsburgh or Seattle is in it what's your point again?

What would be historical would be a Kansas City vs. Seattle matchup in an outdoor stadium. The two best fanbase's beyond Green Bay head to head? It'd be ridiculous.

 

[Sgt. Largent]

The NFL generally wants a stadium capacity of 70,000 + for a Super Bowl. Century Link had an initial capacity well below that and while recent additions have increased capacity to 69,000, it's well past the time it could be considered a new stadium.

I highly doubt 6,000 seats is more than a drop in the bucket as far as revenue consideration for awarding a city a SB. Ad revenue is the main money maker for the SB.

My guess is Seattle got skipped because when the CLINK was built, the NFL was still using the same 3-4 traditional cities to host. Wasn't until mid 2000's that the league started dangling that carrot out for new stadiums.

 

[bjornanderson21]

Traffic is already insane as it is.

I don't want it to take 1 hour to get from North Kirkland to South..........Kirkland.

No to every major event

 

[IndyHawk]

Seattle builds new Stadium and has a non good ole boys club owner and the seating capacity if needed and gets told we may consider you back when it was new.

Your boy certainly has pull when he wants and if he wants it. Hence why he was so pivotal to the Rams moving back to LA.

He was one of the owners who spoke and everyone listened. So, I'm sure if he wanted a SB he would get one - maybe he does not want one.

This is after three Super Bowl appearances, having a Coach that was on the Competition committee and had started attending the League meetings instead of sending a representative.

When you win they listen and start wanting you in their club house, Jerry Jones was a loud mouth when he was a owner at first also and nobody took him serious till after Jimmy won him his Super Bowls.

He had just fired a couple of legends in Tex Schram and Tom Landry.

Paul saved football in Seattle, but his first love was the Trial Blazers. He hired guys to be his football guys and Mouthpiece at first. Bob Whitsitt was his first Voice.

The Hotel argument had been brought up before, but we managed to have several other National events here, NCAA Tournament when we still had the Kingdome, WTO, in the late 90's. In fact the Clink was built to expand to 79,000 plus to accommodate a Super Bowl at that time.

We had the MLB all star game in 79 which I went to and it was sold out.I believe we also had the NBA all star game as well.When you can support one game you can support more.

 

[253hawk]

Trust me, we don't want a SB in Seattle anyway. The ridiculous list of demands (on top of seating and hotels and all of that crap) that the NFL wants for the 'privilege' of hosting one is something to behold:

• Free police escorts for team owners
  
• Use of Presidential suites at the city's top hotels at no-cost
  
• 35,000 free parking spaces
  
• All revenue from ticket sales to the game
  
• Free curbside parking at the NFL House, a "high-end, exclusive drop-in hospitality facility for our most valued and influential guests to meet, unwind, network and conduct business."
  
• Local police dedicated to anti-counterfeit enforcement, provided at no cost
  
• Installation of ATM machines at the stadium that accept NFL preferred credit and debit cards, along with the removal of ATMs that "conflict with preferred payment services."
  
• Two top quality bowling venues for an NFL celebrity bowling event
  
• Portable cell phone towers
  
• Free promotional space from local newspapers and radio stations for the "NFL Experience" in the month before the game
  
• Creation of "clean zones" around the stadium and the hotel for NFL execs that prevent "certain activities" as well as suspend new and existing permits for those activities
  
• Free access to three top golf courses in the months before the game
  
• Exemption from state, county and municipal taxes

No thank you. Keep it elsewhere.

 

[Maulbert]

We had the MLB all star game in 79 which I went to and it was sold out.I believe we also had the NBA all star game as well.When you can support one game you can support more.

We also had an MLB All-Star Game in 2001.

 

[Maulbert]

Seattle has to remain the only city that built a new stadium and didn't get a SB in the past 15 years.

Invesco Field in Denver, Heinz Stadium in Pittsburgh, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough all opened in the last 15 years and have never hosted a Super Bowl, and 2 of them (3 if you count Bowlen, but he has Alzheimer's) have good old boys for owners. For that matter, North Carolina built a stadium in 1996 and Baltimore in 1998 and they never got Super Bowls either. They like domes in northern cities, and New York is the only city that has broken that trend. We don't need to feel jilted about everything.

 

[therealjohncarlson]

I guess if you're not in Florida, Texas or California or a dome stadium you're screwed. Got it. Why not just play the game in St. Louis? They meet all the critera and are literally the in the center of the country.

Oh lord what a disaster that would be. There are countless other, much nicer cities in America that deserve it more.

 

[Largent80]

If the Hawks can get in this year, we can drive to the game in 45 minutes.

 

[Popeyejones]

Invesco Field in Denver, Heinz Stadium in Pittsburgh, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough all opened in the last 15 years and have never hosted a Super Bowl, and 2 of them (3 if you count Bowlen, but he has Alzheimer's) have good old boys for owners. For that matter, North Carolina built a stadium in 1996 and Baltimore in 1998 and they never got Super Bowls either. They like domes in northern cities, and New York is the only city that has broken that trend. We don't need to feel jilted about everything.

Yep. Save for maybe Boston and Baltimore this is also a list of cities that have way below the minimum # of hotel rooms within a 60 mile radius to be awarded a Super Bowl (iirc within a 60 mile radius Seattle has 7,500 hotel rooms or something and the minimum is 15K ).

That makes it a complete non-starter, before you even consider that it's pretty hard to get worked up about being "denied" something that you've never even asked for.

 

[El Caliente]

Goodell told Tom Benson (Saints owner) that we would be getting a Super Bowl again soon, but quite frankly I hope not. As a resident of New Orleans, to get another Super Bowl we would need to build a new stadium (because thats what all the recent and future Super Bowl cities have in common), and quite frankly the city has more problems they need to pay off than building a new dome/stadium when people here are more than happy with the Super Dome.

Go suck an egg NFL!

 

[RedAlice]

I guess if you're not in Florida, Texas or California or a dome stadium you're screwed. Got it. Why not just play the game in St. Louis? They meet all the critera and are literally the in the center of the country.

Um, sweetie...it meets none of the criteria. Except the silent dome thing I guess. Being in the middle of the country is completely irrelevant if no one wants to go there.

The assignments seem quite clear right now. Atlanta. Minnesota. (new stadiums). Miami ($$$+ in renovations to stadium), LA (new stadium). Has zero to do w location, it's rewarding cities for building or improving stadiums.

 

[Seahawkfan80]

I guess if you're not in Florida, Texas or California or a dome stadium you're screwed. Got it. Why not just play the game in St. Louis? They meet all the critera and are literally the in the center of the country.

Um, sweetie...it meets none of the criteria. Except the silent dome thing I guess. Being in the middle of the country is completely irrelevant if no one wants to go there.

The assignments seem quite clear right now. Atlanta. Minnesota. (new stadiums). Miami ($$$+ in renovations to stadium), LA (new stadium). Has zero to do w location, it's rewarding cities for building or improving stadiums.

Conspiracy theorists would also put the fact that those city's HOME teams will NOT be in the Owl that they host. They would lose the financial gain from having tons of new money in from BOTH teams. Truly this is becoming more of a team of gladiators rather than a sporting event. I just go to the towns as I have not been to them or not been to them in a LONG time. Oh and there is beer too. LOL :mrgreen: