I knew the Saints were bitter but damn.

[AsylumGuido]

Oh, and while the league IS bigger, there are still only a limited number of locations that can handle the influx of people in a compact enough area to make the hosting feasible. Jacksonville was horrible as it only had one major hotel and people had to commute just to attend events. I can't see them ever getting another one.

[phocis850]

Actually.... Jacksonville has plenty of hotels. Where'd you get your info?

[RFlagg]

(02-08-2013 11:26 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  Actually.... Jacksonville has plenty of hotels. Where'd you get your info?

The same place his head is stuck...

(02-08-2013 07:40 PM)AsylumGuido Wrote:  The 300th birthday of New Orleans is a big deal as well and something the NFL owners would like to piggy-back on. Deals will be made. Remember, it is not some nebulous being called the NFL that selects the site, it is the 32 owners themselves. Benson wants this badly for New Orleans and only needs a majority of the votes.

[juraitwaluzka]

How many thumbs up does it take to get a Super Bowl?

[Drathdon]

NO wants the SB to boost the profile of their 300th "birthday" because otherwise no one would care. The SB isn't going to give their tremendous marketing muscle to NO just because NO wants it. They use it to get new stadium deals now.

The NFL threw NO a bone because of Katrina. Don't expect the same gift horse to shit in your lap again anytime soon, so long as they can use the carrot of a SB to get new stadiums built.

Atlanta getting the SB in a new stadium on your precious 300th whatever would just be so much icing on the cake!

[papachaz]

(02-08-2013 04:11 PM)RFlagg Wrote:  Just as you figured, eh?

sure it is! the day after the superbowl, he's putting it all on the NFL, because Roger probably gave a 'thumbs up' even after the power went down twice during Beyonce's practices.

but the more important thing is that really in the back of his mind, the thumbs up by the guy who installed and programmed the 'relay' incorrectly is the one "he figured" was wrong

[Beef]

The part that went faulty was part of the $4 million upgrade the city recently did themselves. The power outage was 100% on New Orleans.

No, it was not "Just as you figured". Your first claim was that it was "All on the NFL".

This is a perfect example of your douchebaggery failing once again and you being delusional about it.

[AsylumGuido]

(02-09-2013 09:34 AM)Beef Wrote:  The part that went faulty was part of the $4 million upgrade the city recently did themselves. The power outage was 100% on New Orleans.

No, it was not "Just as you figured". Your first claim was that it was "All on the NFL".

This is a perfect example of your douchebaggery failing once again and you being delusional about it.

The part did not go faulty. Do you not have any grasp of reality? The operator that installed the equipment set the threshold too low which caused the shut down of a section of the lights. It was "just as I figured" when the day before it was found to be related to a switchgear device. I said at that time that someone had probably configured it incorrectly which was EXACTLY what it turned out to be.

Why do you insist on arguing every little thing I post on this board? Do you have some sort of complex?

[AsylumGuido]

(02-08-2013 11:26 PM)phocis850 Wrote:  Actually.... Jacksonville has plenty of hotels. Where'd you get your info?

It is common knowledge that J'ville fell far short of the required 20,000 - 30,000 hotel rooms with easy access required to successfully host the game.

5 NFL Teams That Should Just Move Already

The one Super Bowl that Jacksonville hosted in 2005 was considered an off-field disaster, with floating hotels brought in to make up for Jacksonville's lack of accommodations and festivities kept to a dull roar by the city's low-key nightlife

Super Bowl XVL Dallas Weather: Ranking Super Bowl Host Cities Since 2000

5. Jacksonville in 2005. Jacksonville had rain, cold, and a spread-out Super Bowl plan without mass transit. (The Bay Area would have been better, but…) Like other Super Bowls, the planners tried to concentrate a lot of event stuff downtown, and even used cruise ships as hotels, which didn’t go over well with my friends who went.

Super Bowl price gouging complaints

Super Bowls usually produce price gouging complaints. But, as a story about today’s Super Bowl reports, rates in Indianapolis may have a particularly strong mark-up because of the relatively small host city. “This is what happens when the NFL books the nation’s largest sporting event in a city with only 6,000 hotel rooms. … By population, Indianapolis is the smallest Super Bowl city since Jacksonville, Fla., which hosted a disastrous game in 2005.”

[AsylumGuido]

(02-09-2013 05:23 AM)Drathdon Wrote:  NO wants the SB to boost the profile of their 300th "birthday" because otherwise no one would care. The SB isn't going to give their tremendous marketing muscle to NO just because NO wants it. They use it to get new stadium deals now.

The NFL threw NO a bone because of Katrina. Don't expect the same gift horse to shit in your lap again anytime soon, so long as they can use the carrot of a SB to get new stadiums built.

Atlanta getting the SB in a new stadium on your precious 300th whatever would just be so much icing on the cake!

Under the new bid process the city must file intent to bid by this August and in October the NFL will invite those cities it wishes to formally bid for the 2018 game. The bids will be due May of 2014. New Orleans has already committed to filing to bid. Indy has not yet.

Super Bowl bid process changes