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re: If you had to create a fair but reasonable pool of cities to host a Championship game.....
Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:42 am to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:42 am to SummerOfGeorge
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The only other one I considered was Minneapolis just to get another midwestern city on the list,
St. Louis has the Edward Jones Dome, former home of the Rams. KC has Arrowhead Stadium. It's outdoors and would be cold but the parking lots between Arrowhead and Kaufman are fantastic for tailgating.
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:42 am to Jenar Boy
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When the shite coast can field a team worthy of the playoff then we can discuss having championship/playoff games in the west. Until then,
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:46 am to SummerOfGeorge
PHX isn't great but isn't terrible considering a lot of people probably go in and out of Vegas, go to Sedona, things like that. I think the game being in Glendale sucks.
I do remember flights into Phoenix being really hard in 2010. I'm not sure why Alabama-Clemson demand suffered so much considering Clemson should have been really motivated.
I think the CFP is suffering from a bad combination of short notice travel, repeat contenders and bad city selection (Levi's is just an awful choice).
I do remember flights into Phoenix being really hard in 2010. I'm not sure why Alabama-Clemson demand suffered so much considering Clemson should have been really motivated.
I think the CFP is suffering from a bad combination of short notice travel, repeat contenders and bad city selection (Levi's is just an awful choice).
Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:46 am to SummerOfGeorge
No Orlando? The Mouse mocks the hotel facilities of most cities on your list. And uh, trust me they got lotsa non-football stuff for everyone to do.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:49 am to Sunbeam
Unless you're combining it w/ Disney Orlando is a terrible place for bowl games or life in general.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:52 am to SummerOfGeorge
Nashville would be the best. It's centrally located and easily accessed by Southeastern and Midwestern schools and their fanbases (which tbh, are the two regions most playoff teams are coming from). It's also not terribly far away for those who live farther West.
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 10:57 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 10:59 am to Prof
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Nashville
The weather is so unpredictable in the southeast in January. It's in the 50's and raining today. Last year around this time we had below freezing temps and several inches of snow.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:05 am to Rhino5
If Nashville got a dome it would be here for sure. The NHL had their draft here recently and the NFL draft is here this coming year. Plenty of buzz/attractions and centrally located to the Southeast/Midwest/Northeast.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:13 am to madmaxvol
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Nashville and Charlotte seem to work ok for their existing bowls...why would the Championship Game be any different?
Charlotte was a shite show for a bowl game. Bad logisitics, bad stadium management ... but it is a beautiful stadium. Not big enough though and the city just has bad logistics problems when it's asked to handle 50-60k extra people downtown.
It was a bad bowl experience from the logistics standpoint of things.
They didn't open the gates until an hour before the ball game and then they had huge sardine packed likes trying to get through the metal detectors. It was a mess. We got there shortly after 10:30 AM thinking that's when they were going to open the gates (which they didn't) and then we stood in line and didn't even get into the stadium until Midway through the first quarter and then it took us forever to walk to our seats.
Then the steps are so steep (because the stadium is build on a small footprint) that going up and down the steps were like climbing ladders.
Then you couldn't really move around in the stadium, section to section just to visit with friends, because of the strict security. And if you dropped your tickets once inside the stadium, which many people did thinking they wouldn't need them any longer ... you were fricked. You go through three tickets checks just getting to your seat and if you got up to go to the bathroom or to get a beer or drinks you had to have your ticket to get back to your seat.
Total shite show from beginning to end.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:21 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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They played a Super Bowl in New Jersey.
Literally the only outdoor Super Bowl outside of the South/Texas/Arizona/California in the history of the game.
1 of 58 reaching out to 2024
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 11:23 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:23 am to VFL1800FPD
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If Nashville got a dome it would be here for sure. The NHL had their draft here recently and the NFL draft is here this coming year. Plenty of buzz/attractions and centrally located to the Southeast/Midwest/Northeast.
I mean this is a theoretical exercise so I'm not sure why folks are knocking Nashville for not having a dome. Theoretically, I suppose, we'd get one for the theoretical games.
Otherwise, Nashville really is about the best choice.
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 11:25 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:23 am to Prof
Nashville would definitely get consideration if it had a Dome/Retractable Roof Stadium. They'd get Super Bowls too (maybe). Not that that is a reason to do it.
A lot of the Midwest NFL towns would too (KC, STL, Chicago, Cincy, etc).
A lot of the Midwest NFL towns would too (KC, STL, Chicago, Cincy, etc).
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 11:28 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:25 am to SummerOfGeorge
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I'd go
- Atlanta
- New Orleans
- Miami
- Tampa
- Dallas
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Las Vegas
- Phoenix
- Los Angeles (when the new stadium is done)
I'd remove Tampa and Phoenix. Rest of that list looks good. I can't think of any others I'd add given the game is in January.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:25 am to dawgman15
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I think Nashville has potential as well
Nissan Stadium is AWFUL. Only way Nashville would ever host anything big for college football would be building an entirely new stadium, which they have no plans to do.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:27 am to Pettifogger
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I'm not sure why Alabama-Clemson demand suffered so much considering Clemson should have been really motivated.
I really like Phoenix, but the playoff was fairly new and plane tickets were like 1500+. Especially since Clemson and Alabama both mainly fly from Atlanta. There isn't enough planes in a week to fly 70k people from the same airport.
Lots of people flew into Vegas and drove.
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 11:28 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:28 am to SummerOfGeorge
Replace the dangerous city of Atkanta with Nashville.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:28 am to UltimaParadox
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I really like Phoenix, but the playoff was fairly new and plane tickets were like 1500+.
Lots of people flew into Vegas and drove.
Yep - I booked plane tickets 3 weeks ahead of time for $300 a piece. By the time the Cotton Bowl ended they were $750-800 a piece and by the next Monday they were $1000+.
Everybody knows how booking air travel works - and the setup of the playoff ensures that any game you have to fly too you are going to get the absolute worst prices on.
This post was edited on 1/3/19 at 11:30 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:28 am to Eli Goldfinger
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Replace the dangerous city of Atkanta with Nashville.
I'll replace your face with my fist
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:30 am to lsufball19
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I'd remove Tampa and Phoenix.
What's wrong with Tampa?
Cheap to fly, warm weather.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:36 am to UltimaParadox
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What's wrong with Tampa?
Same reason Nashville shouldn't host right now...Raymond James Stadium is almost a carbon copy of Nissan Stadium.
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