Posted on 05/21/2018 9:17:25 AM PDT by bgill
New Orleans could once again become the home for the Super Bowl on Wednesday afternoon (May 23). That's when the city's contingent, led by the New Orleans Saints and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, will present a proposal to the NFL team owners to host the 2024 Super Bowl (58), according to the Saints and the GNOSF. New Orleans will be the only suitor for the 2024 Super Bowl at the league owners meetings, making its chances of landing the NFL's crowning event highly probable. The vote by the 31 other teams is expected to occur shortly after the city's presentation.
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Keep up the foolishness and there may not be an NFL in 2014.
It’s a fun city to party in but dangerous if you don’t know the area. The food and fishing can’t be beat.
These big sporting events, while promoted as a mechanism for the host city to print their own money for a week or so, are a giant pain the a$$. I worked the 2000 Super Bowl, in Atlanta. The one more famous for Ray Lewis and his gangbanger friends killing two guys that the fact that the Rams won.
It was a complete sh*tshow, even without the murder.
Cool. New Orleanians like to party. The crime rate may even go down.
I’ve heard, and maybe you know from experience, that host cities have big expenditures due to the NFL demands for providing certain services. And then there are costs such as security, police overtime pay, etc which costs money.
Bottom line I’ve heard that host cities in recent years are not making any financial windfall from a super bowl.
And the whole thing can be more trouble then it’s worth. I think we see this, if there’s only 1 city making a bid for 2024.
I’ve heard the Olympics are having trouble finding cities around the world to even make bids to host the games.
We had a short one hour vacation there. Mr. b and I were looking for a place to eat lunch on Bourbon Street when a tranny tried to come on to him. We packed it up and never went back.
Sounds like everybody knows that the NFL will be dead by 2024.
How about Pyongyang, Caracas or Havana?
Looks like the NFL got very good at extracting all the profits from the city that hosts the event.
Seems appropriate, going to Ray Nagin’s “Chocolate City” with the mostly “chocolate” teams...
BTW - DILLIGAF???? Cuz I don’t - I survived last year with very little NFL and no Super Bowl. Going to zero this year.
Let’s hope there is NO FNFL by 2024!
Watched every Super Bowl since they were invented.
Except I purposely Missed the last two. And I will continue to miss them until the NFL gets their heads out of their collective asses, gets off their knees and gets back to being AMERICAN.
Dilber San Diego, you put it a helluva better than I did. At the end of the day, it’s just a big pain in the can. Sure there’s money coming in, hotel tax revenue, all the food and beverage taxes, but at the end of the day, the cities lay out a lot of money. I’m not privy to the spreadsheets, but going with what you wrote, these events tend to be more trouble than they’re worth. And then toss in all the demands of the NFL, sponsors, teams, ain’t worth it.
After this summit, Pyongyang might be the next hot spot. Baghdad is already becoming the next Las Vegas.
I second that!
It’s a known fact that when the Saints play the crime comes to almost a standstill there and the surrounding towns.
I’m thinking Nairobi, Johannesburg or Kinshasha.
The nfl literally HATES their own fan base. They have killed the nfl goose that laid those billion dollar golden eggs by strangling it with their own hands. It is DEAD and never coming back.
It's appropriate that New Orleans is the only city. Like the nfl, New Orleans is 27 feet below sea level. Both are underwater physically and financially.
Some folks thought that if the Saints won the super bowl the locals would burn the city down like they do in other cities (Chicago,L.A.). The opposite happened. People partied and crime went down. That big parade they threw for the Saints when well. New Orleans is use to large jubilant crowds and NOLA does not have all of the laws restricting a good time.
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