Interest in a Superbowl

[antame]

Charlotte could absolutely host a SB and probably will.

[antame]

Unless the NFL decides to go single venue which is doubtful.

[The_Mango55]

The NFL for a decade or so now has been pushing new stadiums with the classic Carrot and Stick method.

The Superbowl is the carrot. "Get a new stadium and you'll host the Superbowl a few years later"

Los Angeles is the stick. "Get a new stadium or your team will move to LA"

LA is more valuable without a team than it is with a team, which is why it still doesn't have one. If a team moved to LA 10 years ago, all the teams with state of the art new stadiums wouldn't have new stadiums.

[Chimera]

Why isn't Bank of America considered good enough to host a Super Bowl? I'm talking about the stadium itself, not the city.

I know the sound can be awful depending where you are, but what else about the stadium disqualifies it?

[antame]

Why isn't Bank of America considered good enough to host a Super Bowl? I'm talking about the stadium itself, not the city.

I know the sound can be awful depending where you are, but what else about the stadium disqualifies it?

I'm not sure either.

[antame]

The NFL for a decade or so now has been pushing new stadiums with the classic Carrot and Stick method.

The Superbowl is the carrot. "Get a new stadium and you'll host the Superbowl a few years later"

Los Angeles is the stick. "Get a new stadium or your team will move to LA"

LA is more valuable without a team than it is with a team, which is why it still doesn't have one. If a team moved to LA 10 years ago, all the teams with state of the art new stadiums wouldn't have new stadiums.

Never mind.

[TNPanther]

Why isn't Bank of America considered good enough to host a Super Bowl? I'm talking about the stadium itself, not the city.

I know the sound can be awful depending where you are, but what else about the stadium disqualifies it?

I've actually noticed that the lighting is somewhat poor during night games. Might be just me.

As far as stadiums go, the place is drop dead gorgeous on game days when the sun shines and it's completely clear.

[Port City Cat Fan]

About 90% of the rednecks use campers or tents. Not hotels. It would be great to have a super bowl in charlotte, but i just dont think the town is big enough. Most of them are held in major cities.

[Port City Cat Fan]

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).

Miami....399,000? These numbers are way off as far as the superbowl is concerned. The surrounding areas are taken into account. Miami is huge with tons of hotel rooms.

[Anybodyhome]

Paul Tagliabue promised Jerry Richardson a Super Bowl when he was awarded the team. As a matter of fact, the design of the stadium was based upon a minimum number of seats to meet the minimum requirement for a SB.

Goodell reneged on the deal and claimed "the infrastructure" couldn't handle the capacity for a SB. But, as one other poster pointed out, Charlotte can handle 2 weekends worth of 200,000 race fans or 100,000 people in for the Democratic convention. And for both of those events, people stay as far as High Point, where the furniture market in its heyday drew 100,000 for the week; Greensboro, Winston-Salem...all of which are an hour or less away.

And the NFL shot themselves in the foot putting the SB in New York next year. Can't wait to see what happens then. I'll be praying for a blizzard of epic proportions just so I can laugh. Remember the Detroit Super Bowl when the NFL thought a dome would protect the game? There was a snowstorm in Detroit that week and guess what? Dome or not, the game was delayed because people couldn't get to the stadium!

How does anyone justify the "new stadium" theory for getting a Super Bowl when the NFL keeps returning to New Orleans? The city is a craphole, the stadium is a huge turd floating in the middle of the craphole and just because the NFL, FEMA and taxpayers of New Orleans paid for some new clothes to dress up the Superdome, we're supposed to believe it's new?

Please, every time the NFL gives New Orleans another Super Bowl, or awards one to somewhere like Jacksonville, the people of Charlotte should be insulted.

There is no real, substantial, factual reason Charlotte cannot host a Super Bowl.

[Davidson Deac II]

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.

Its not metro areas either. Charlotte has a larger metro area than New Orleans or Indy. Its a combination of factors, weather and stadium being chief among them. They generally want good weather for a SB. New York gets an exception to that because its New York, but other cities don't. If the Panthers played in a dome, we would stand a good chance of getting a SB. As it is though, we don't have much of a chance.

[carolinarolls]

there is plenty of hotels, there is just not enough ball rooms, stretch hummers, or private dining halls for all the celebs to one up each other.

[PantherFan4Ever]

I've always thought it would be fair for every NFL city to host a super bowl. Just rotate it and every city is guaranteed to host at least once every 30 years or so. And if that's not the answer, pick one neutral site to host every year.

OT - Let's also move the superbowl from Sundays to Saturdays so I can get sloppy drunk. Probably doesn't make sense for the sponsors, but I would benefit.

[CRA]

not enough hotels.

too much of a chance of snow/bad/cold weather.

hotels is what they say...

but NYC is getting a Superbowl....so weather obvious isn't a factor