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Interest in a Superbowl

davos

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The_Mango55 Newbie

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This is all about the stadium. If we build a nice shiny new stadium then they would reward us with a few superbowls. Since we haven't, they won't.

It's being held in Indianapolis this year which is barely larger than Charlotte with a smaller metro area.

Hell I've heard people from CLEVELAND (tiny and podunk?) look at a Charlotte skyline picture I keep in my living room and say "huh - I didn't know Charlotte was a real city".

Cleveland is smaller than Charlotte so I don't know what he was laughing at.

lol Charlotte is way too small to handle something like the super bowl. Is there a city with a smaller population (not market) with a NFL team? I think the we are surely one of the smallest if not the smallest. The weather shouldn't matter.

NFL cities smaller than Charlotte:

Baltimore

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Buffalo

Green Bay

Kansas City

Nashville

Pittsburgh

Tampa

There are several others but I think you get the point.

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This is all about the stadium. If we build a nice shiny new stadium then they would reward us with a few superbowls. Since we haven't, they won't.

It's being held in Indianapolis this year which is barely larger than Charlotte with a smaller metro area.

Cleveland is smaller than Charlotte so I don't know what he was laughing at.

NFL cities smaller than Charlotte:

Baltimore

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Buffalo

Green Bay

Kansas City

Nashville

Pittsburgh

Tampa

There are several others but I think you get the point.

It's not the city population is the metropolitan population. In that perspective Charlotte is a joke. There are no hotels or big events or reasons people come to Charlotte. A super Bowl here would be dumb because there is nothing else here and nothing else people really come here for unless it's banking. That's whats funny. I prefer to live here in this area because of that fact.

I have lived IN LA, Dallas, SLC, Seattle...many more larger cities and I don't prefer it, I laugh at it because I have lived outside this bubble and know what life is outside this 'huge' city and I find a lot of people in NC have been here their whole lives and don't know any different. It's changeing for the better however as least I have found from past years.

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As someone said previously, It really is a lot about the stadium. Every time Goodell has a big presser he talks about new stadiums and poo. And I remember him specifically talking about encouraging new stadiums and rewarding them by letting them host a superbowl. Now obviously, thats not something that we're even close to being able to talk about right now. So its pretty much moot.

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lol Charlotte is way too small to handle something like the super bowl. Is there a city with a smaller population (not market) with a NFL team? I think the we are surely one of the smallest if not the smallest. The weather shouldn't matter.

This is an ignorant question but allow me to educate you. Yes - there are quite a few teams in the NFL who are based in a city with a smaller population that Charlotte. These numbers are based on the 2010 census. Listed by team based on their "home" city.

  • Jets / Giants - 8,175,133
  • Bears - 2,695,598
  • Texans - 2,099,451
  • Eagles - 1,526,006
  • Cardinals - 1,445,632
  • Chargers - 1,307,402
  • Cowboys - 1,197,816
  • Jaguars - 821,784
  • Colts - 820,445
  • 49ers - 805,235
  • Panthers - 731,424
  • Lions - 713,777
  • Ravens - 620,961
  • Patriots - 617,594
  • Seahawks - 608,660
  • Redskins - 601,723
  • Titans - 601,222
  • Broncos - 600,158
  • Chiefs - 459,787
  • Falcons - 420,003
  • Dolphins - 399,457
  • Browns - 396,815
  • Raiders - 390,724
  • Vikings - 382,578
  • Saints - 343,829
  • Buccaneers - 335,709
  • Rams - 319,294
  • Steelers - 305,704
  • Bengals - 296,943
  • Bills - 261,310
  • Packers - 104,057

If you want to discuss surrounding areas and whatnot that's fine - but that's not what you asked. In fact you very specifically said you didn't want to discuss that. So there you have it. There are 20 cities with an NFL franchise that have a smaller population than Charlotte.

*huggles*

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It's not the city population is the metropolitan population. In that perspective Charlotte is a joke. There are no hotels or big events or reasons people come to Charlotte. A super Bowl here would be dumb because there is nothing else here and nothing else people really come here for unless it's banking. That's whats funny. I prefer to live here in this area because of that fact.

I have lived IN LA, Dallas, SLC, Seattle...many more larger cities and I don't prefer it, I laugh at it because I have lived outside this bubble and know what life is outside this 'huge' city and I find a lot of people in NC have been here their whole lives and don't know any different. It's changeing for the better however as least I have found from past years.

You said "not market" so I assumed you wanted city population instead of metro population.

Well in that case, Charlotte is bigger than:

Indianapolis (site of the current Superbowl)

Green Bay

Jacksonville

Buffalo

New Orleans (site of many superbowls)

And it's growing at a massive rate. By 2020 it will likely be larger than Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Kansas City and possibly Baltimore.

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lol Charlotte is way too small to handle something like the super bowl. Is there a city with a smaller population (not market) with a NFL team? I think the we are surely one of the smallest if not the smallest. The weather shouldn't matter.

A few..

New York: 8,175,133

Chicago: 2,695,598

Houston: 2,099,451

Philadelphia: 1,526,006

Phoenix: 1,445,632

San Diego: 1,307,402

Dallas: 1,197,816

Jacksonville: 821,784

Indianapolis: 820,445

San Francisco: 805,235

Charlotte: 731,424

Detroit: 713,777

Baltimore: 620,961

Boston: 617,594

Seattle: 608,660

Washington: 601,723

Nashville: 601,222

Denver: 600,158

Kansas City: 459,787

Atlanta: 420,003

Miami: 399,457

Cleveland: 396,815

Oakland: 390,724

Minneapolis: 382,578

New Orleans: 343,829

Tampa: 335,709

Saint Louis: 319,294

Pittsburgh: 305,704

Cincinnati: 296,943

Buffalo: 261,310

Green Bay: 104,057

But the point of this post is to highlight (italics) the cities that have hosted the Super Bowl (that I can remember) and their population size. What seems to be more of a theme than the population of the city is the location of it. Every site that has hosted the Super Bowl have been in a typically warmer location when compared to Charlotte. (With the obvious exceptions being Detroit and Indy, which both have domes, and New York, and all 3 have/had new stadiums).

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or maybe that indoor min-mall thing that used to be off Sharon Amity & Randolph...with the Spoons! Spoons was tha poo

Spoon somehow got a contract one year at Holy Trinity to do the lunches on Wednesday.

it was the most hideous food I'd ever eaten every single time.

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The Super Bowl is being played in New York next year.

It's the hotels.

So, there are enough hotels for 200,000 racing fans, but not enough for 70,000 football fans.

Charlotte will probably never have enough hotel space. If you travel and have ever stayed at those chain hotels off the interstate, you'll see rates of $20, $30, maybe even $40. But in Charlotte... $95-$120. WTF? Seriously? Even in rural areas of NC, you're usually looking at $70 or more.

Paying that much to stay in Charlotte - with all its tourist attractions like the small and outdated Discovery Place, empty NASCAR Hall of fame, 9 whole miles of light rail line, a basketball team ran by an egomaniacal has-been, and a JFG sign.

Charlotte's business practices kill this city.

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