Interest in a Superbowl

[Guest]

lol Charlotte is way too small to handle something like the super bowl. Is there a city with a smaller population (not market) with a NFL team? I think the we are surely one of the smallest if not the smallest. The weather shouldn't matter.

Green Bay for sure. Maybe Jax?

[JJT]

The Super Bowl is being played in New York next year.

It's the hotels.

Why can't they just park their RVs in the infield?

[Mvp2014]

IF the hotels fill up, let them "occupy" uptown

[sunset]

Hey, I'm from north Jersey and I just wanted to say that everyone here thinks having a superbowl in "New York" is a joke. I've been to Giants stadium plenty of times and actually went down to Bank of America last year and your stadium/city/location is so much nicer!

Giants stadium is in a really terrible location that only has one really close hotel and certainly no nightlife in walking distance. If people actually stay in NYC then they'll have a ridiculous traffic-filled commute to even get to the stadium. I haven't been in the new stadium yet, but from what I have heard it's pretty much like they rebuilt the old crummy stadium next to it. They have none of the nice amenities like the club sections, etc. that Bank of America has.

Who knows if Charlotte will get a superbowl, bu you definitely have a nicer stadium and centralized city location.

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

Goodell clearly said this summer that there wont be a Superbowl in Charlotte.

Well no, not now.

After Cam newton has reached Jordan status and we're the Chicago Bulls of the NFL it will be a different story. :cam:

Cam is gonna get you that Super Bowl in Charlotte. Believe it.

Same thing w/ Indy before they had Peyton Manning honestly. Think about it. It was a basketball state just as NC and Charlotte is a racing area. One player can transform everything with wins and popularity.

[Nicbsbll2]

Just put the Super Bowl in LA every year. It's a neutral site and it would satisfy the one game a year that the people of LA would actually come out and support.

[Crixtala]

lack of parking is a better excuse than the hotel situation

the NFL would have to deal with too many private lots to make it happen

[Niner National]

It's not the city population is the metropolitan population. In that perspective Charlotte is a joke. There are no hotels or big events or reasons people come to Charlotte. A super Bowl here would be dumb because there is nothing else here and nothing else people really come here for unless it's banking. That's whats funny. I prefer to live here in this area because of that fact.

I have lived IN LA, Dallas, SLC, Seattle...many more larger cities and I don't prefer it, I laugh at it because I have lived outside this bubble and know what life is outside this 'huge' city and I find a lot of people in NC have been here their whole lives and don't know any different. It's changeing for the better however as least I have found from past years.

There are lots of hotels in Charlotte and several that are under construction or recently proposed.

The Ritz was just ranked the second best hotel in the nation.

As far as "nobody comes to Charlotte," this is very much incorrect. Charlotte gets over 16 million visitors per year, ranking in the top 20 nationally for tourism.

Charlotte regularly hosts a lot of large events. Do people from NYC come here to vacation? No. But it is a regional destination for a lot of events.

Our 4th of July Celebration and Thanksgiving Day parades are top 5 largest in the nation. Charlotte also hosts one of the largest Halloween celebrations in the nation every year with over 80,000 attendees. I've seen them give away trips to Charlotte on the Price is Right several times.

We host Speedstreet and the yearly Nascar All-Star races as welll as two other races. We regularly host the ACC tournament for basketball and have the ACC championship for football for the next two years. We host a bowl game every year. We host a fairly large PGA tournament every year and will host the PGA Championship in 2017. We host a round of NCAA games almost every year.

I regularly hear of people from around the state or neighboring states that will visit Charlotte for a weekend.

It's not like Indianapolis is a tourist destination either...or Detroit. I wouldn't really consider Houston a tourist destination either. Nobody vacations to Houston. Like Charlotte, it's a regional tourism spot where people go for a week to hang out in the city. Same thing with Dallas. There are very few true tourist destinations in the U.S. that attract people from all over the country.

[Chimera]

Miami....399,000? These numbers are way off as far as the superbowl is concerned. The surrounding areas are taken into account. Miami is huge with tons of hotel rooms.

Miami is a tourist hellhole... not a good comparison.

[Chimera]

There are lots of hotels in Charlotte and several that are under construction or recently proposed.

The Ritz was just ranked the second best hotel in the nation.

As far as "nobody comes to Charlotte," this is very much incorrect. Charlotte gets over 16 million visitors per year, ranking in the top 20 nationally for tourism.

Charlotte regularly hosts a lot of large events. Do people from NYC come here to vacation? No. But it is a regional destination for a lot of events.

Our 4th of July Celebration and Thanksgiving Day parades are top 5 largest in the nation. Charlotte also hosts one of the largest Halloween celebrations in the nation every year with over 80,000 attendees. I've seen them give away trips to Charlotte on the Price is Right several times.

We host Speedstreet and the yearly Nascar All-Star races as welll as two other races. We regularly host the ACC tournament for basketball and have the ACC championship for football for the next two years. We host a bowl game every year. We host a fairly large PGA tournament every year and will host the PGA Championship in 2017. We host a round of NCAA games almost every year.

I regularly hear of people from around the state or neighboring states that will visit Charlotte for a weekend.

It's not like Indianapolis is a tourist destination either...or Detroit. I wouldn't really consider Houston a tourist destination either. Nobody vacations to Houston. Like Charlotte, it's a regional tourism spot where people go for a week to hang out in the city. Same thing with Dallas. There are very few true tourist destinations in the U.S. that attract people from all over the country.

According to http://www.charlottesgotalot.com/resources/pdfs/Statistics_FINAL_Aug09.pdf

Charlotte gets 18.8 million "visitors" per year. Of those, 5.3 million are for business and 13.5 for leisure.

Only 5.8 million come for "overnight leisure" My best guess tells me the others include field trips to Discovery Place, people going shopping on Saturday, Carowinds, etc.

Of those 5.8 million, only 10% stay for "entertainment or sightseeing"

14% answered "other personal/pleasure" but who know what that entails? Lake Norman?

This includes stats from the entire Charlotte Metro Area, so you have to consider the state's #1 tourist attraction - Concord Mills Mall - adds a number of people who aren't really visiting Charlotte.

[Crixtala]

the fact that Concord Mills is Charlotte's #1 tourist attraction should be enough to keep the Super Bowl away

:leaving:

[Sam Mills Fan]

The hotel excuse is bogus. If we have enough hotels to host the DNC, we have enough to host the Super Bowl. This is a city that once hosted a national NRA convention and NAACP convention at the exact same time, we can do it.

What's really holding Charlotte is back is the lame, old stadium and the laughable nightlife compared to other cities.

[pantherdad]

But yet There is enough hotel space for 150,000 race fans on race weekend...i dont get it

[Paintballr]

Anyone that says Charlotte shouldn't get a super bowl should ask themselves why did Jacksonville get one?