Future NFL

[popanot]

Originally Posted by barrett

As for the Super Bowl, the bid process is interesting. The best destinations to host super bowls are also the least likely to pay for it because they are cities that draw awesome amounts of tourists already (San Diego, Miami, New Orleans). San Diego and Miami already passed on free super bowls just because of the cost of stadium upgrades. If you go to a bid system get ready to play the Super Bowl in tourism starved cities like Minneapolis, Indy, Detroit, KC, STL, etc...

Excellent point. I could also see a tourist city like San Antonio or a major college city that already has a big stadium jumping in to 1)sell the public on stadium improvements, and/or 2)show the NFL they should have a team.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by popanot

Excellent point. I could also see a tourist city like San Antonio or a major college city that already has a big stadium jumping in to 1)sell the public on stadium improvements, and/or 2)show the NFL they should have a team.

That's a great point. I could see the super bowl becoming a travelling event that gets built into the expansion/construction of NFL stadiums. Basically the NFL saying, fund a stadium and we will take your bid as trade for paying for our stadium. A decent amount of this already goes on, but it would expand with a bid system.