I knew the Saints were bitter but damn.

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(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.”