Report: Dolphins stadium deal looks dead

You misunderstand. I'm talking about a period of time when SBs were only awarded to nice weather stadiums and occasionally a dome.

During the time the Super Bowl was mainly awarded to nice weather stadiums, we and a small few teams had the advantage. The cities capacity for events was less a big deal then, because there was such a small handful of possible nice weather venues. If what you say was major reason, virtually no other nice weather stadiums would have gotten the SB.

 

The cities that get the SB have the infrastructure needed to support them. This is why the 1972 perfect season concluded in the then-50 year old Memorial Coliseum in LA, for example. LA could support the event despite a stadium that was even then old and decrepit.

Goodell is giving SBs to cities that build new stadiums, yes, but that's a result of a highly accelerated stadium construction schedule over the last few years. That movement is stalling. The 49ers new stadium is likely going to be the last one for a decade.

 

Hard to believe that Miami-Dade cannot find a way to do this from their own current budget. Currently $66M per year is going toward "economic development". $320M per year is going to "neighborhood and infrastructure" development. This is money that goes directly to businesses and real estate development. Surely they could manage to provide $7M per year from those funds to help renovate the stadium.

 

Missing out on just two would justify the renovations no?.. And the building is not getting better while others are..you think they'll just come back because its like New Orleans destination driven?

 

Carolina's deal was approved the weekend.

 

yup, and Atlanta will lure other world class events because of venue itself, it should be like Jerry's world, world class city, disadvantage sunlife as is.

 

I think it's just like Desides says. It's a carrot-and-stick. They're in the midst of making rounds to reward all the new stadium builds going on out there, which in my opinion is going to affect Miami regardless of whether it participates. Miami once had a goal of getting every 3rd or 4th Super Bowl. Let's take that as an example. I don't think that's very realistic during a time when there are a lot of new stadium builds and renovations happening, because the NFL wants to reward those stadium builds. Even if Miami took part, that once every 3rd or 4th Super Bowl number probably would've been no better than one in 6 or 7.

And in the meantime the NFL is also trying out the stick on Miami. They say we're not giving you any more Super Bowls unless you build. This gives the Dolphins all the leverage to hold the community hostage and say no more Super Bowls unless you agree to publicly fund upgrades.

But now that the possibility of public funding has been flushed down the toilet, there's no more point to using the stick. What's left is the carrot, and when the NFL has properly rewarded the stadiums that cooperated with new builds, the NFL will be back to awarding Super Bowls based on what makes the most sense from an infrastructure standpoint and what's going to make them the most money.

That's just my gut feel on this. It seemed like a bluff.

 

That makes sense to give these new venues their piece, and once that's done, we'll be right back in the rotation, hmmmm.

 

Atlanta is trying to get a new taxpayer-funded stadium. Arthur Blank has already said the team won't move. He lost all leverage and is very likely not going to get any money, so he'll be in the same position as Ross.

Carolina's renovations wouldn't be done in time to award them a Super Bowl, I don't think. The next two winners are going to be San Fran and Houston. Would Carolina make it third in that line? Doubt it.

 

I was at the stadium today and it was brutal with the heat. Idk how those gorilla guys does it


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