Comments on: Will Tampa Compete For Another Super Bowl?

By: Buc Fan South Tampa

Buc Fan South Tampa — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:01:12 +0000

Starting my ninth year as a season ticket holder. Raymond James is good. Yeah Jumbo Trons could be upgraded. Beer is cold, dogs are hot and football is on the field. I dont think we need to add a thing.

By: 4everBucsFan

4everBucsFan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:46:12 +0000

snubbed? ….No? …us?

If there is a bright side, be glad we don’t have to wait every 32 years.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:14:54 +0000

Perhaps the next state-of-the-art stadium will have flying seats that pick up each person from their couch and then transport them to the air-conditioned open air stadium that domes up during bad weather?

Well played.

By: Buc Fan #238

Buc Fan #238 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:07:58 +0000

Perhaps the next state-of-the-art stadium will have flying seats that pick up each person from their couch and then transport them to the air-conditioned open air stadium that domes up during bad weather?

By: lightningbuc

lightningbuc — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:55:58 +0000

Weird how in this day and age many of us try to get 10 or more years out of our vehicles, but a 15 year old stadium that cost hundreds of millions of dollars is outdated? Not in my book. Raymond James is fine. If the Glazers or the NFL want something different, let ‘em pay for it. Plus, there have been many studies about how communities that host the Super Bowl don’t reap anywhere near the rewards that the NFL big wigs claim it does.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:30:51 +0000

Hey guys, just for some background:

There are upgrades that were written into the voter-approved referendum. So they are coming, and yes, they are needed. “This Joe” always thought the CITS was very underwhelming from an overall fan experience compared to other stadiums. Just tailgating alone (not to mention the air-conditioned Bud Zone) Jacksonville is worlds better (though not as good as Pittsburgh and maybe not as good as New Orleans).

It will be a while before Tampa gets a Super Bowl. San Francisco has a new stadium opening in 2014 and it will get a Super Bowl soon as will Minnesota which is building a stadium.

We all know Atlanta is making major noise about a new stadium. Carolina, pppfffttt. Interesting they need upgrades but Joe would be shocked if Charlotte got a Super Bowl.

What is very interesting to “this Joe,” much more so than the Carolina situation, is what is going on in St. Louis. There, just two weeks ago, an independent arbitrator has deemed the 18-year old Ed Dome (just three years older than the CITS) unfit for an NFL franchise.

The place, once state of the art, is now deemed out of date. In less than two decades. Wow.

The NFL is in an arms race. And yes, this subject is important to Joe because any jolt to the local economy is a good thing.

(Talking with many NFL types, they prefer Tampa over Miami as a Super Bowl site, but of course, if the CITS is not upgraded to meet standards of other stadiums such as Miami, San Franciso and other cities, those sites will get a Super Bowl over Tampa.)

By: nick

nick — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:35:59 +0000

Upgrades to the video boards are coming. And I remember talking to different suppliers while bidding for security on their trailers in 09. They say Tampa is the best spot as far as functionality. The weather is always good in Jan/Feb. So it comes down to one thing…$$$$…smh

By: Big Rob

Big Rob — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:00:15 +0000

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Raymond James Stadium! Didn’t they just get a minor upgrade? The NFL makes BILLIONS of dollars each year. Why do taxpayers need to help them build their stadiums???

By: SeanyMac in SC

SeanyMac in SC — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:55:27 +0000

The Georgia Dome is 22 years old, and ATL has plans to build a new stadium. The GA Dome gets some big college and basketball games, and I’m pretty sure its a bigger market than TB. Just say’in.

By: Glen

Glen — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:55:07 +0000

Go the the “field of schemes” site and you’ll be enlightened to the scam that professional sports entitites have been pulling for, uh, forever….Neil Demause does a great job of enlightening with his website.

“We would have no choice but to consider pursuing another option in metro Atlanta” if negotiations break down, Falcons President and CEO Rich McKay said. “Please don’t let anybody say that’s a threat. No, that’s just a reality of what we have to do as our lease is about to end.”

“Asked Wednesday why the team couldn’t pay its own way, Richardson said, in short, because they don’t have to. NFL teams, he said, “are so coveted, they don’t have to pay. There are only 32.”

“Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dees said on Sunday when asked if his team’s $200 million public subsidy request for renovations to its privately owned stadium isn’t just “welfare for billionaires”:

“Just because somebody is wealthy enough doesn’t mean he should invest money in a way that is unwise,” Dees declared.”

By: Buc Fan #238

Buc Fan #238 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:44:19 +0000

This whole point makes the CITS deal less and less attractive each year the stadium ages. Perhaps the Glazers are planning for this (move) too?

Maybe that’s why they haven’t been too interested in getting the games UN-blacked out?

Savvy dudes!

By: OAR

OAR — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:36:34 +0000

“(Miami will always beat out Tampa…WEATHER)”

Is that why the NFL chose NY next year?
Also didnt realize Tampa and Miami were such opposites on the weather spectrum?