Host the Big Game???

I certainly hope if we never host a Superbowl....it has nothing to do with TV stands? Are you kidding

Anyone remember the rumor going around last year after the NFL meetings that Snyder was looking into an inflatable dome that could be put in place for the Super Bowl to be held in DC? I think it was actually a true story but the cost and logistics made in far too unfeasible.

The owners had this out a few years ago and after he was voted down, Snyder stormed out of the meeting. It is not likely to ever happen and only partly because of the weather.

When JKC got the approvals to build what is now Fed Ex Field, he signed a longterm lease to play in PG County. I was told a couple of years ago that the lease is very restrictive and punitive if the Skins try to play elsewhere.

That means Danny Boy - as the owner of the stadium - would have to find a way to put a roof on it or build a totally new one in PG County for the owners to consider putting a Super Bowl here in DC.

And just because a team hosts the game does not mean its fans get tix. In Miami last year, the host Dolphins got less than 3,000 tix to distribute. After they gave a bunch to their local sponsors and "corporate partners", the season ticket holders were in a lottery to share about 1100 tix.

One idea the league ought to consider is to play the game every year in the Rose Bowl. The reason is not the huge size of the stadium; the reason is that it is a neutral site and playing there assures that no team will ever have a "home game" in a Super Bowl. Of course, they could also achieve that end by playing in Detroit every year... :)

Realistically... if any cold weather city was going ot get a Super Bowl.. it would be New York.

When JKC got the approvals to build what is now Fed Ex Field, he signed a longterm lease to play in PG County. I was told a couple of years ago that the lease is very restrictive and punitive if the Skins try to play elsewhere.

That means Danny Boy - as the owner of the stadium - would have to find a way to put a roof on it or build a totally new one in PG County for the owners to consider putting a Super Bowl here in DC.

And just because a team hosts the game does not mean its fans get tix. In Miami last year, the host Dolphins got less than 3,000 tix to distribute. After they gave a bunch to their local sponsors and "corporate partners", the season ticket holders were in a lottery to share about 1100 tix.

One idea the league ought to consider is to play the game every year in the Rose Bowl. The reason is not the huge size of the stadium; the reason is that it is a neutral site and playing there assures that no team will ever have a "home game" in a Super Bowl. Of course, they could also achieve that end by playing in Detroit every year... :)

And still no thank you: http://www.thewarpath.net/redskins-warpath-parking-lot/17765-can-you-make-sportscurmudgeon-smile-today.html?highlight=smile

You're on my list Curmudgeon...you're on my list

:angry-smi

I may be in the minority but if the Redskins (when the Redskins) make the Super Bowl, I'd rather watch the game on tv.

I want to be able to hunker down with some friends and some brew and actually see the game. I don't need all the surrounding hoopla and bad angles from my seat on gameday. Not for the Super Bowl

I may be in the minority but if the Redskins (when the Redskins) make the Super Bowl, I'd rather watch the game on tv.

I want to be able to hunker down with some friends and some brew and actually see the game. I don't need all the surrounding hoopla and bad angles from my seat on gameday. Not for the Super Bowl


I'll second that mod wonder, at the house for the BIG GAME!

Yeah, I don't think the fans will enjoy the cold weather for a Superbowl. When we had last year's up here in Detroit, the city went all out for it, but even though the television viewership was a record supposedly, the city basically came out even. To get ready for the SB, the city even created a Winterfest for downtown Detroit a few years before the SB that was a quasi hit with local residents, but folks from Seattle and even Pitt didn't want to spend their SB vacation freezing their collective asses off. Even thoug the DC metro area is a lot more nicer than the Detroit metro area, being originally from Lanham, the DC area road system virtually is at a crawl even if there is a snowstorm with small accumulations. If Fedex was a dome then DC would be a great SB spot, providing no snowstorm came about during the weekend.

I would never want the SB in this town. Traffic is bad enough already. I lived in Augusta for 2 years and I hated whenever the Masters tournament came around. During that week the traffic becomes as bad as it is here. I do not want to imagine what our roads would look like during a SuperBowl week. I would rather watch it on TV.