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Pittsburgh adding more hotels in hope to host a superbowl

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We don't want to host a SB we want to be in one! (of course win it)

I see the construction driving to work.... thing is I don't remember too many clubs making the SB the year their team hosts the SB, do you?

I think hotels will be good for Pittsburgh, more money floating through the city.

As obviously that is their thinking for hosting.

But for superstitious reasons mentioned, I kind of want it to be just the hotels being constructed.

what yinz think?
 
Unless they install a retractable roof on Heinz Field, Pittsburgh has zero chance of hosting a Super Bowl.

They made an exception to their general "no open stadium in cold weather city" rule for New York because virtually all the owners have some level of financial/political interests there. That's it.
 
slashsteel said:
.... thing is I don't remember too many clubs making the SB the year their team hosts the SB, do you?
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I think Miami did once but that was the only one. i could be wrong.
 
Yep I have zero interest in a superbowl here... the traffic would be a nightmare and a half. They would have to make the city bus only and freaken close everything down for a weekend. If they did it though, I would suggest they rent PNC and the CEC and have off site viewing available. Might as well have the mother of all football parties if it goes down, plus that ensures
 
Traffic would be terrible. Parking would be terrible. The publicity and money would be good for the city, but the headaches would out-weight the positives. I just don't see this happening for a long time, if it would at all. There are bigger cities with more equipped venues and a little better weather in February.
 
I think its a Rooney pipe dream that will never come to fruition. I realize they're adding more hotels but they need a ton of available rooms plus the seating capacity at Heinz even with the new seating is still at about 68,000 still far too small.

Yes and the weather in February in Western PA can be brutal. Nah, I don't thin so.
 
I would head to the Burgh for a SB in a heart beat. I could care less about the league making money with all of their outdoor activities prior to the game. I think they should do a cold weather location every 4 or 5 years.

The biggest problem in the Burgh for a SB is the tunnels and the fact no one knows how to drive through them at the speed limit. That would kill traffic. Those damn tunnels and the Parkway East need to all be 3 lanes. But, that's for another discussion.
 
Most likely, doubtfull at best. If the STEELERS were in it, then i would be there. Any other teams, could care less. Those motels being build currently, aren't just for a chance at the super bowl. NO ONE IN THERE RIGHT MIND, would take that gamble, with that kind of money.



Salute the nation
 
We could use more hotel space to get bigger conventions anyway. There are ways around the traffic...busways, HOV lanes, etc. plus you can walk to Heinz Field from anywhere downtown anyway. But Heinz simply doesn't seat enough and never will and February is always the absolute worst month for weather here. It's ******* cold and ******* miserable every ******* day. Outside activities at a 'Burgh Super Bowl you can forget about. Everyone packed into jets filled with jet heaters is not a good look or a good time. NYC you have a chance of it being warmer because it's next to the ocean. No such luck here. Average temp for February this year was 18.6*. That's not average low, that's average period.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/02/28/pittsburgh-on-track-for-2nd-coldest-february-on-record/
 
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Why move the damn game. Have it the same place every year and divide the revenue. Zona, New Orleans, Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, Atlanta, Houston, San Diego would all be locations suitable based on the climate. Narrow the choices by capacity and other issues. Going to a bad weather city in February is just too stupid to consider realistically.
 
SB should alternate. Warm weather city, cold weather city. I love games in snow, mud, rain. THat's football.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
We could use more hotel space to get bigger conventions anyway. There are ways around the traffic...busways, HOV lanes, etc. plus you can walk to Heinz Field from anywhere downtown anyway. But Heinz simply doesn't seat enough and never will and February is always the absolute worst month for weather here. It's ******* cold and ******* miserable every ******* day. Outside activities at a 'Burgh Super Bowl you can forget about. Everyone packed into jets filled with jet heaters is not a good look or a good time.
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could you imagine parkway west and east during rush hour of SB week and then the weekend? Talk about a cluster trying to get into and out of the city. Downtown, South and North Side would be a nightmare trying to go to work as you are fighting fans, media and the hoopla for the week. My head hurts just thinking about it.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
We could use more hotel space to get bigger conventions anyway.
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I walk past the new hotel being built by PNC Park every weekday and I think "Is there really that much demand for hotel rooms in the North Shore?"

Aside from Steelers home games, I don't see it.
 
Troglodyte said:
I walk past the new hotel being built by PNC Park every weekday and I think "Is there really that much demand for hotel rooms in the North Shore?"

Aside from Steelers home games, I don't see it.
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Until recently I worked part-time in ground transportation at the airport. You'd be surprised how many conventions and conferences we have and how many people come in for them.
 
The jag offs will probably schedule work on the Ft Pitt and Squirrel Hill tunes super bowl weekend
 
Shane Falco said:
The jag offs will probably schedule work on the Ft Pitt and Squirrel Hill tunes super bowl weekend
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With any luck it will start a year prior and run a year past. The bowl will also coincide with the coldest days in 100 years and a record 14 day snowfall that cancels flights to and from and renders the highways impassable.
 
Wingman said:
With any luck it will start a year prior and run a year past. The bowl will also coincide with the coldest days in 100 years and a record 14 day snowfall that cancels flights to and from and renders the highways impassable.
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This past February sucked. Second-coldest Feb. on record and the parking lot and sidewalk at my office were covered in inches of ice for about 6 weeks. Too cold for salt to melt it. A ******* hazard just trying to walk.
 
Punxy Phil called it!
 
What a horrible idea. As others have already stated the traffic and weather would be excruciating
 
One other point, the last few studies I saw claimed the super bowl and other major sporting events do not really add as much to the economy as they claim, and there is a rather large cost in getting ready for it that falls on the taxpayers... again, we don't need one... let Miami or some other warm weather town keep it
 
madinsomniac said:
One other point, the last few studies I saw claimed the super bowl and other major sporting events do not really add as much to the economy as they claim, and there is a rather large cost in getting ready for it that falls on the taxpayers... again, we don't need one... let Miami or some other warm weather town keep it
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LOL..pretty telling when the voices of the city involved actually have a more common sense approach to events like this than the city leaders. I've been in Tampa during Super Bowls and 'avoidance' was good advice for that whole week. We are accustomed to tourists down here but that many, all in one place can be disastrous.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
I think Miami did once but that was the only one. i could be wrong.
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Yup you are wrong. Two Super Bowls were close though. Super Bowl XIII was in Pasadena, Ca (Rose Bowl) where the Steelers beat the Los Angeles Rams and Super Bowl XIX was in Palo Alto, Ca (Sanford Stadium) where the 49ers beat the Dolphins. Neither games played in the exact same stadiums where the Rams and Niners play respectively, but pretty damn close.
The next one , Super Bowl 50, is being played in Levi's Stadium where the Niners actually play their games. Do they have shot to play in their own stadium to win it all?
 
It's ******* cold and ******* miserable every ******* day.
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No, Ron. Tell us what you really think...
 
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