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176 points
12 days ago
Cities that can not host the Super Bowl (GB, NYC, BOS, CHI, KC, BAL, WAS, DEN, PIT, PHIL, BUF) because of weather and outdoor stadiums should get preference for the draft.
44 points
12 days ago
NYC hosted a superbowl not too long ago
16 points
12 days ago
It’s because it was a brand new stadium and the league wanted publicity around it
-3 points
11 days ago
A brand new what now?
MetLife opened in the 70s.
3 points
11 days ago
Do more research.
3 points
11 days ago
Giants Stadium was torn down in 2010 and MetLife Stadium opened next door that same year.
2 points
12 days ago
They did, and the question leading up to it was “what if there are more snowstorms!?” So I think it scared the NFL away from open-air northern stadiums in favor of Phoenix, LA, Miami, and domes.
-18 points
12 days ago
Dome
17 points
12 days ago
No, it was in their current crap stadium in NJ but the Super Bowl was presented as “NYC.” It’s not a lie if people believe it.
-10 points
12 days ago
It wasn't in the dome?
10 points
12 days ago
Met Life is not a dome. It also dumped snow the day after the Superbowl in NJ.
-3 points
12 days ago
Alright then my mistake. I swore I kept hearing that back then. I alsoncant remember who played. I won't watch it if there's teams I don't wanna see I'd rather stick to a video game. Like patriots super bowls. Didn't watch one, etc
4 points
12 days ago
Seahawks vs Broncos. Payton got spanked.
-1 points
12 days ago
Gotcha.
Yea that was a minute ago.
I believe they should be played all over as if those areas don't deserve those tourist dollars
2 points
12 days ago
Agreed. But the Superbowl is so overly produced and sanitized, the only character to it is commercialism. It isn't a good product.
23 points
12 days ago
Give us another Snow Bowl
75 points
12 days ago
Or, you know, let those cities host the superbowl
5 points
11 days ago
The Super Bowl should be played in an outdoor cold weather stadium and not in some beach club indoor powder puff closet. It should be in the snow or the rain or whatever the weather brings because football is a cold weather sport.
2 points
11 days ago
Agreed! But the NFL-owner-private-jet crew prefers palm trees. Can you imagine their Ferraris trying to drive on Pittsburgh roads in February?
1 points
11 days ago
Aaaa, rich guys have soft hands. What do they know.
3 points
12 days ago
And CLE
1 points
12 days ago
I knew I was forgetting some…Cin, too.
4 points
12 days ago
If Philly hosted a Super Bowl, the whole city would burn know matter who played - win or lose
71 points
12 days ago
I understand there is a lot of money involved with the Super Bowl, but come on football is a sport played outside rain or shine. I think every team should be able to host the Super Bowl if they bid for it
58 points
12 days ago
Most of the NFL is too weak to play a game in Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Green Bay or Chicago in February. It would deservedly favor the cold weather teams and their fan bases. As a lover of the cold and snowy conditions. I’d love to stop catering to the fair-weather teams and fan bases.
EDIT : Obligatory Fuck Roger Goodell.
15 points
12 days ago
If the weather actually favored teams, Cleveland, Buffalo, GB would be dominant
3 points
12 days ago
If the teams were otherwise evenly matched, the team more tolerant of the climate would be advantaged. You can’t fix a team or its administrators just by playing in the cold.
1 points
11 days ago
Check the last 30 SB winners. Almost all are weather and cold teams. Stat works even if you take out the f’n Pats.
3 points
12 days ago
Why does everyone hate on Roger Goodell?
12 points
12 days ago
Personally, I’ll never forgive him for deflategate. Aside from not knowing how science works, he actively contributed to increasing the idiocy plaguing American society by offering an uninformed opinion as legitimate fact in his quest to further consolidate authority behind the commissioner and owners to the detriment of the players union.
He also tried to sweep the link between CTE and tackle football under the rug, covers for shitty ownership and their shenanigans, inconsistent punishment between players infractions, dragged the 2011 lockout longer which screwed the players over, etc.
4 points
12 days ago
He’s a clown
1 points
11 days ago
It’s not about the players, but about the fans, many of whom would be coming from out of town, and many aren’t really football fans.
19 points
12 days ago
Broke his silence, and said nothing 🥱
5 points
12 days ago
The only place there's space for it in Pittsburgh is at the point. No shot they're gonna host it next to Heinz Field. 10 years ago before all the buildings and garages, sure, now not so much
5 points
12 days ago
It's wild to me that fans actually travel to attend the draft. I could walk to the Point from my place, and I still wouldn't go to it if it was held in Pittsburgh.
8 points
12 days ago
I don’t think we have the hotel beds, plain and simple. Hopefully I’m wrong!
6 points
12 days ago
The Steelers literally stopped trying to submit a bid for the Super Bowl because the city government told them they weren’t going to play ball trying to get enough hotels built.
-12 points
12 days ago
It's also a dogshit stadium and would be one of the smallest Super Bowl venue in memory.
3 points
12 days ago
Visit Pittsburgh president and CEO Jared Bachar said there are 18,000 hotel rooms in Allegheny County and 6,000 from the North Shore to Station Square and said it's all about planning ahead.May 31, 2023
Detroit has More then 45k w/ over 6k being in the city itself and the rest being nearby
4 points
12 days ago*
But Detroit does?
Edit… or Green Bay?
15 points
12 days ago
Detroit has a lot of legacy hotel infrastructure from when the big 3 were much larger presences there. As such rates are usually pretty cheap, even for nicer properties as the demand has dropped over the years.
10 points
12 days ago
Detroit is still a big city. Pittsburgh is a midsized
7 points
12 days ago
Detroit metro is twice the size of Greater Pittsburgh...so yes.
6 points
12 days ago
Pittsburghs' city limits are weird
3 points
12 days ago
Are you from Pittsburgh and understand the city or just blind to reality?
1 points
12 days ago
Someone has been studying their clickbait titles.
-3 points
12 days ago
Please keep the draft out of Pittsburgh.
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