Super Bowls - Future

observer · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 5

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Super Bowl XXXVIII, Houston, Texas, Feb. 1, 2004

Super Bowl XXXVIII will be the second Super Bowl
hosted in the great city of Houston. Super Bowl VIII
was played at Rice Stadium on Jan. 13, 1974 where
the Dolphins claimed their second consecutive Super
Bowl victory.

(Houston info)
http://www.superbowl.com/features/houston

Houston Super Bowl Host Committee
http://www.superbowlxxxviii.org/

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Super Bowl XXXIX, Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 6, 2005

Although Jacksonville has never hosted a Super Bowl
the fan support that the city demonstrates for their
Jaguars is amongst the top in the NFL. Super Bowl
XXXIX will be the first Super Bowl hosted here but
definitely not the last.

(Jacksonville info)
http://www.superbowl.com/features/jacksonville

Jacksonville Super Bowl Host Committee
http://www.jacksonvillesuperbowl.net/

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Super Bowl XL, Detroit, Mich., Feb. 5, 2006

Super Bowl XL will be the second Super Bowl played
in the Motor City. The first Super Bowl played here was
Super Bowl XVI, where Joe Montana claimed the first
Lombardi Trophy for the San Francisco 49ers.

(Detroit info)
http://www.superbowl.com/features/detroit

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Super Bowl XLI, Miami, Florida, Feb. 4, 2007
http://sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl/news/ABN2801786.htm

Pro Player Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins, has
been chosen as the site of Super Bowl XLI in 2007.
The venue, previously named Joe Robbie Stadium,
has hosted the event on three other occasions since
opening in 1987.

"Miami sells itself," said Dolphins president Eddie
Jones. "We've got everything that some city would
want to put in a proposal. We've got more hotel rooms
than anybody, we've got good weather, we've got a
good stadium and all those things that go into a bid."

This will be the ninth Super Bowl for Miami, tying it with
New Orleans as the most popular host city. The Orange
Bowl in Miami hosted three of the first five Super Bowls.

Miami last hosted the Super Bowl in 1999 when Denver
beat Atlanta.

The capacity of Pro Player Stadium is 75,192.

(further details on Super Bowl XLI in Miami)
http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/sportstoryA13040A.htm

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observer · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 5

"Phill." wrote in message @news03.east.earthlink.net...
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> "observer" wrote:
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> After the guaranteed total gridlock and parking mess we will have with
> the Feb 1, 2004 SuperBowl, no one will want to return to Houston.

The unique aspect of Super Bowl attendees is that
most are from out-of-town, and will be partying at
or near Reliant Stadium way before game-time, so
I would expect that gridlock/parking problems would
be minimal.

Phill. · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

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"observer" wrote:

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After the guaranteed total gridlock and parking mess we will have with
the Feb 1, 2004 SuperBowl, no one will want to return to Houston.

Dave Zero · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 53

observer wrote:
> "Phill." wrote in message
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>> In article ,
>> "observer" wrote:
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>> After the guaranteed total gridlock and parking mess we will
>> have with the Feb 1, 2004 SuperBowl, no one will want to
>> return to Houston.
>
> The unique aspect of Super Bowl attendees is that
> most are from out-of-town, and will be partying at
> or near Reliant Stadium way before game-time, so
> I would expect that gridlock/parking problems would
> be minimal.

They should all be held in San Diego. Great city, great weather, decent
stadium.

Dave Zero

Phill. · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

In article ,
"observer" wrote:

> The unique aspect of Super Bowl attendees is that
> most are from out-of-town, and will be partying at
> or near Reliant Stadium way before game-time, so
> I would expect that gridlock/parking problems would
> be minimal.

Not nearly enough QUALITY Hotel space there. They'll be downtown,
Galeria, etc.

Check back here Feb.2. You heard it here first.
Houston WILL embaress itself.

and then if it rains and all the streets are flooded?

"Steve M · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:24:52 GMT, "Phill." wrote:

>In article ,
> "observer" wrote:
>
>> The unique aspect of Super Bowl attendees is that
>> most are from out-of-town, and will be partying at
>> or near Reliant Stadium way before game-time, so
>> I would expect that gridlock/parking problems would
>> be minimal.
>
>Not nearly enough QUALITY Hotel space there. They'll be downtown,
>Galeria, etc.

I agree. The NFL headquarters will be at the brand new downtown
hotel.

>Check back here Feb.2. You heard it here first.
>Houston WILL embarass itself.

Possibly. The silliest thing is that the Metro train will not be
running yet.

>and then if it rains and all the streets are flooded?

Not likely. Average rainfall in January and February is only 3.5-4
inches, for the whole month. If we get that much on one day, it will
make news but I don't think it will flood anywhere that is involved
with the Super Bowl.

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Phill. · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

In article ,
"Steve M (remove wax for reply)" wrote:

> >and then if it rains and all the streets are flooded?
>
> Not likely. Average rainfall in January and February is only 3.5-4
> inches, for the whole month.

Thats enough. Houston is not Seattle with 0.1 inches every day. Houston
gets its rainfall in 2 inches per hour drubbings. We are in a
subtropical environment, as we learned in 8th Grade Geography.

Stan-Fan · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 44

The way the security is set up for the Super Bowl, and it takes years of
advance planning, by the time the gates open at the stadium, they will
have gridlocked the city down to a one way in, one way out, from
traffic, to pedestrian. Same applies inside the stadium, all pedestrian
traffic moves one way in, out of their seats.

They set up emergency bus, HOV, tractor-trailer lanes on the freeways,
to allow traffic to flow. If you have an 8-laner, probably six will be
used going out, two coming in. This is a total effort of the U.S.
Government, local police department and many, many private agencies.

If you live in Houston, you won't be able to travel near, or around that
stadium by foot, car, or airplane on gameday, don't try, they will have
security perimeter's set up where you can't pass, blocks away from the
stadium, at all crucial road junctions.

No tractor-trailer traffic carrying Hazmat material will be allowed to
move in or out of the port that day on the roads; hospitals will be on
full alert, thing is as tight as the Olympics or a Presidential visit. I
imagine the gridlock you expect will occur on the Monday following the
game, enroute to the airport, once the game is over, the security
concerns usually are gone.

Houston hosted a Super Bowl I think, in Rice Stadium way back. Don't
remember when. Did all right with it if I remember. The Super Bowl is
estimated, this year, to pump approximately $350 million dollars into
the local economy for a 2-week stay. I will take gridlock and traffic
problems downtown any day for that kind of economic and tourism prize.

Don't think Houston, whose traffic pattern is a lot like Los Angeles'
will embarrass themselves as a host city. Jacksonville however, could,
with the fact that a Super Bowl requires 15,000-17,000 guaranteed deluxe
hotel rooms. Jacksonville, Florida, a nice Navy town, has no where near
that, and will be bringing up cruise ships from Port
Everglades-Ft.Lauderdale, and the Port of Miami to anchor in the
St.John's River to provide the hotel accommodations. Not sure the
high-rollers who attend the Super Bowl will accept that type of
accommodation well, and the writers will have a field day with the city,
more so than they did with Detroit when it first hosted the Super Bowl.

One San Francisco writer wag commented on the downtown Detroit
Renaissance Center as the world's largest cappuccino machine, a blizzard
blew in over Detroit-Pontiac that day, and it went downhill from there.
Press likes its comfort. With that stadium, and the Texas atmosphere,
think Houston will be a rollicking success staging the Super Bowl, and
the city and county will make a bundle out of the thing. Certainly
outweighs any criticism the press will have of the place.

Since only 2.5% of the tickets are allocated to the teams for the game,
and the rest are held by the league, the average Houston football fan
will be doing what the rest of America does that day, watching it on the
tube.

jjp · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

"Phill." wrote in message news:...
> In article ,
> "observer" wrote:
>
> > ---
> > http://www.superbowl.com/features/futuresites
> > ---
>
>
> After the guaranteed total gridlock and parking mess we will have with
> the Feb 1, 2004 SuperBowl, no one will want to return to Houston.

Well, somehow Houston pulls off the huge rodeo every year, so I think
it can handle a superbowl...

jjp · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

"Steve M (remove wax for reply)" wrote in message news:...
> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:24:52 GMT, "Phill." wrote:
>
> >In article ,
> > "observer" wrote:
> >
> >> The unique aspect of Super Bowl attendees is that
> >> most are from out-of-town, and will be partying at
> >> or near Reliant Stadium way before game-time, so
> >> I would expect that gridlock/parking problems would
> >> be minimal.
> >
> >Not nearly enough QUALITY Hotel space there. They'll be downtown,
> >Galeria, etc.
>
> I agree. The NFL headquarters will be at the brand new downtown
> hotel.
>
> >Check back here Feb.2. You heard it here first.
> >Houston WILL embarass itself.

Doubt it. I think there will be the usual, expected problems of any
big event in any city. I actually think people who haven't been to
Houston in a long time or who are unfamiliar with Houston are going to
be very pleasantly surprised, especially with downtown.

> Possibly. The silliest thing is that the Metro train will not be
> running yet.

Where did you hear that? Last I heard, it is supposed to start running
in early January.

> >and then if it rains and all the streets are flooded?
>
> Not likely. Average rainfall in January and February is only 3.5-4
> inches, for the whole month. If we get that much on one day, it will
> make news but I don't think it will flood anywhere that is involved
> with the Super Bowl.

True. When flooding does occur, it's usually in isolated areas, drains
quickly (tropical storm Alison was an exception, but also considered a
500-year flood), and is usually only during the tropical season.

"Steve M · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

On 14 Oct 2003 12:34:00 -0700, jjp76@yahoo.com (jjp) wrote:

>> After the guaranteed total gridlock and parking mess we will have with
>> the Feb 1, 2004 SuperBowl, no one will want to return to Houston.
>
>Well, somehow Houston pulls off the huge rodeo every year, so I think
>it can handle a superbowl...

It's like 16 Super Bowls in a row, actually. Total attendance over is
1,745,357 (2003 figures). That's over 100,000 people every day for
two weeks including 3 weekends.

http://www.hlsr.com/

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"Steve M · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

On 14 Oct 2003 12:39:39 -0700, jjp76@yahoo.com (jjp) wrote:

>> Possibly. The silliest thing is that the Metro train will not be
>> running yet.
>
>Where did you hear that? Last I heard, it is supposed to start running
>in early January.

That's what Metro says. And you can bet that there will people
busting their guts to make sure it happens. Opening day is scheduled
for Jan. 1, 2004.

http://www.ridemetro.org/motion/lrt/spring03.pdf
http://www.construction.com/NewsCenter/Headlines/DCP/20020510m.asp

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jjp · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

"Steve M (remove wax for reply)" wrote in message news:...
> On 14 Oct 2003 12:34:00 -0700, jjp76@yahoo.com (jjp) wrote:
>
> >> After the guaranteed total gridlock and parking mess we will have with
> >> the Feb 1, 2004 SuperBowl, no one will want to return to Houston.
> >
> >Well, somehow Houston pulls off the huge rodeo every year, so I think
> >it can handle a superbowl...
>
> It's like 16 Super Bowls in a row, actually. Total attendance over is
> 1,745,357 (2003 figures). That's over 100,000 people every day for
> two weeks including 3 weekends.
>
> http://www.hlsr.com/

Exactly -- so Super Bowl should be no problem...