SuperBowl in the Burgh in 2023?

[tapeANaspirin2it]

i mentioned this before. The NFL should start their season in October. If you start the regular season around the second week of October, it would put the Super Bowl into March. That would open up all the northern cities for a Super Bowl without as many weather concerns. You still can get snow but it's not likely to be freezing cold.

 

[madinsomniac]

i mentioned this before. The NFL should start their season in October. If you start the regular season around the second week of October, it would put the Super Bowl into March. That would open up all the northern cities for a Super Bowl without as many weather concerns. You still can get snow but it's not likely to be freezing cold.

They would just tack 4 regular season games like jerrah wanted and the super bowl would be played with 90% street free agents due to injuries

 

[Xc944]

I believe they're going to get it. They already have the hotel rooms. Traffic sucks no matter where you go. By 2023 they'll have two more parking garages built.

Sorry but they dont have close to enough hotel rooms

 

[SteelChip]

I thought that a super bowl stadium had to have a minimum number of seats. Steeler fans were bitching about the size of the stadium before it was even complete. Cold weather, small stadium, limited rooms and parking all add up to insurmountable odds.

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

 

[Fiji Mariner]

i mentioned this before. The NFL should start their season in October. If you start the regular season around the second week of October, it would put the Super Bowl into March. That would open up all the northern cities for a Super Bowl without as many weather concerns. You still can get snow but it's not likely to be freezing cold.

So then the multiple playoff games that determine who is in the SB take place in more inclement weather? Seems like a bad idea to me.

An equally crazy idea, take the month of Feb. off ( giving teams a month to prepare like college bowl games) and the NFL can have a whole month to talk about the big game as well as greater likelihood of healthy rosters.

 

[POP]

Football was build on cold weather, all weather play. The teams that are involved from cold weather areas always have a disadvantage to any high flying offense in the big game, that's not what people like Lambeau had in mind when they were part of the game. I see all the excuses, and I say **** that, I want a SuperBowl in Pittsburgh.

Joe

You're obviously entitled to your opinion, but you have to consider the fans, for, without the fans, the NFL doesn't exist. And MOST fans - especially those who toil in cold winter weather - want to experience a vacation-like atmosphere, and the vast majority consider vacation-like weather to be nice and warm. Why would anyone want to travel to a cold city to have a vacation, unless you are skiing? Heck, here in north FL, people were griping over J-ville only being in the 60's much of the week (but I believe the actual SB was in the 70's; we have a pretty broad stretch of temps. in N FL during the winter). To me, there are only a handful of choice SB towns and we should just rotate the SB among those cities, instead of trying to be too cute with adding cold *** town in there: Miami, New Orleans, SD, LA (now that they have an NFL team) and MAYBE Dallas and Tampa and AZ. Other than those towns, why bother? Just leave the SB to those towns. When J-ville had it, they weren't even close to being able to put everyone up, even with cruise ships in dock to help out. People were staying in places as far as Orlando, which, I guess was OK for people who wanted to combine the SB with a Disney family vacation, I guess.

 

[papillon]

The Super Bowl should be played in the home city of the team with the best record, regardless of temperature, weather, domed stadium, etc. because that team has earned the right to boost the economy of that city. Still give out the tickets 50/50 to the two teams, but the Super Bowl should be a home game for one of the teams, just my opinion. I hate the fact that a city not involved with the two teams gets the economic windfall from the Super Bowl.

Papillon

 

[SteelerFan448]

i mentioned this before. The NFL should start their season in October. If you start the regular season around the second week of October, it would put the Super Bowl into March. That would open up all the northern cities for a Super Bowl without as many weather concerns. You still can get snow but it's not likely to be freezing cold.

Eh, let's just move it back a week so the game is President's Day weekend and we have Monday off.

 

[CoolieMan]

Hopefully the Steelers make it to 2017s Super Bowl in Houston.....

 

[Steelerfreak]

all the construction I know they are working towards it , the city will be a mess traffic wise when it comes to pass.................

Save your vacation time, rent the place for a week.....you go to the Bahamas on someone elses dime!

 

[Steelerfreak]

They don't have the hotel rooms... the estimates they give include hotels all the way down to wheeling and Weirton IIRC, and that is assuming that no other event is scheduled anywhere.... hell fracking starts back up and there wont be half enough hotel rooms in the area... they are stretching things to make it look better than it is... places like Detroit and Jacksonville who did similar things ended up being rather bad overall experiences... then they will be trying to Jerrah Jones the Stadium as well... its just a terribad idea

Yep, I believe Jacksonville brought in Cruise ships and kept them docked for hotels.

 

[madinsomniac]

Yep, I believe Jacksonville brought in Cruise ships and kept them docked for hotels.

awesome... So I guess our rivers may well be full of hoseboats and barges full of tents or something... or maybe the steelers can con taxpayers into building a bunch of hotels they don't need... On a side note... the next time the steelers threaten to leave for a new stadium or anything that takes one dime of taxpayer money I will offer to pack their bags for them... I can follow that team wherever they go and a private company should almost never get taxpayer funded anything, especially an entertainment one...

 

[tapeANaspirin2it]

So then the multiple playoff games that determine who is in the SB take place in more inclement weather? Seems like a bad idea to me.

An equally crazy idea, take the month of Feb. off ( giving teams a month to prepare like college bowl games) and the NFL can have a whole month to talk about the big game as well as greater likelihood of healthy rosters.

Not much difference in weather between early January and late January.

If they do eventually go to an 18 game schedule, i think they should give the whole league a 2 week bye for the last 2 weeks of December. This would be in addition to each team's individual bye. The 2 week bye would allow all teams to be home for the Christmas and New Year and get healthy for the playoff push.

I think those 2 weeks without football would be lessened by the holidays and college bowls so it wouldn't suck as bad for fans. This would be another way to push the Super Bowl into March and open up more possible host cities.

Of course pushing the SB into March means pushing back the combine. You should have prospects in better health. Then you push the Draft back to late May.

 

[SteelerFan448]

The Super Bowl does provide a nice economic boost and possibly add to a city's prestige, but the NFL sure does bend a city over to host a Super Bowl there. I have no problem for the Steelers and the city for making a push, but it certainly never worth building a dome stadium for and beyond that, fans want to travel to a warm weather city.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...ty-bid-specifications-and-requirements-leaked

A few interesting items that caught our eye while combing through the 153-page document.

NFL controls "100 percent of the revenues from all ticket sales" including "ticket sales in all suites" and the NFL "must have exclusive access to all club seats"
NFL requires a "climate-controlled domed stadium" if average temperature for that region falls below 50 degrees
"Postgame removal of the field shall be of no cost to the NFL" unless it wants to remove parts of the field "for the sale of licensed products"
"Exclusive, cost-free use of 35,000" parking spaces for gameday parking
The NFL has the "option to install ATMs that accept NFL preferred credit/debit cards in exchange for cash" and to cover up other ATMs.
Team hotels must agree to televise the NFL Network for one year leading up to the Super Bowl
If cellular service is too weak at the team hotels (based on the "sole discretion of the NFL"), the Host Committee must install boosters and/or cell antennas.
"Local enforcement officers will be provided to the NFL" for anti-counterfeit enforcement teams "at not cost to the NFL."
Full tax exemption from city, state and local taxes for tickets sold to the Super Bowl (and also the NFL Experience, the NFL Honors show and "other NFL Official Events").
"The NFL shall receive priority over all other ice and snow removal projects, except those that directly threaten life or public safety."
Tons of advertising for the NFL Experience: 1,500 ratings points on TV stations, 20 pages of color ads in local newspapers and a 12-page fan guide inserted twice, 250 live or pre-recorded radio spots on six local stations and 10 billboards.
Under "additional facilities" the NFL requires the usage of three golf courses and two bowling lanes:

 

[Ron Burgundy]

There are enough hotel rooms if you book people in Monroeville and Cranberry but how are they going to get to the stadium? Traffic be a mofo.

 

[Steel G]

I hate the cold weather SB idea. But, after they pulled it off in NY, well, NJ actually, you knew this would be the result. The other cold weather markets want a piece of the pie. I still think it's a lousy idea, especially for the smaller cities. Keep the game in the south or the west and stop with the nonsense.

 

[Troglodyte]

The cold weather Super Bowl will be around until the NFL gets burned by it. A windy, rainy/snowy miserable 6-3 game with cancelled halftime festivities would put an end to it. Or a blizzard that causes cancelled flights and other transportation problems. Until then...

 

[Steelerfan]

I think a foul weather outdoor game would be great. More outdoor games=more die hard fans going to the SB. As it is now, its a lot of wine and cheese corporate muckety mucks who don't know squat about the game. Ticks me off. With the comfortable domes and such, its pretty much like hockey. To hell with that. The more snow/rain/cold, the better.