Could the Super Bowl come to St. Louis?

by Ryan Van Bibber on May 28, 2010 11:58 AM CDT

If New York can have a Super Bowl, why can't St. Louis?

Okay, first of all STL is not NYC. But media market doesn't matter for the Super Bowl, the media market comes to the game not the other way around, exhibit A: Detroit.

The big concern people have about the Super Bowl being in New Jersey (remember where the Meadowlands is technically) is the weather. Nonsense. Bad weather makes for great football games. Weather wouldn't matter in St. Louis where teams would play in the not-so-friendly confines of the Ed Jones Dome.

The Dome is probably the biggest impediment to having a Super Bowl in St. Louis, since as a venue it's not a favorable place for the 6,000 fans that turn out to watch a Rams game much less the packed house that would be on hand for the Super Bowl. I doubt the league would be keen on featuring one of it's second string facilities. The NY Super Bowl is set for 2014, right around d-day for the Rams franchise and their lease on the EJD. If the team could get some nod from owners - and this is where Stan Kroenke could have some pull as owner - to consider St. Louis as a site, it might help in getting a new stadium. That could work the other way too, getting a new stadium could help STL get a Super Bowl since the league is now willing to start having The Big Game in not-so-sunny locales.

Maybe by 2015 Sam Bradford will be ready to lead the Rams to a Super Bowl. Wouldn't a home game be nice?

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I would love for one to come here, but I know it wouldn't.

I’d especially love it if season ticket holders got easier tickets.

by StopSpe on May 28, 2010 12:43 PM CDT reply actions

Maybe with a new stadium

Ford Field in Detroit and Reliant Stadium in Houston are both indoor stadiums that have hosted stadiums. I think the NFL will want St. Louis to build a new retractable roof stadium before they give the city a Super Bowl. But it could definitely happen.

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by Joey Kaufman on May 28, 2010 1:04 PM CDT reply actions

If you build it, they will come ;-)

by RBramfan on May 28, 2010 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Can't say it any better than that

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by Joey Kaufman on May 30, 2010 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Now that you brought it up...

wouldn’t that be a bit unfair if the city that was hosting the super bowl game was also one of the teams playing in the game?

Would the NFL actually allow that to happen? Just think of all the hammering that city would get if it not only played in the super bowl but it also won the game.

It could work in the oposite also…if they lost there would be those that might say ‘The team had the game in their city and they couldn’t even win it there’.

It could spell bad publicity either way.

Go Rams!

"We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now." --- Bruce Coslett, New York Jets Head Coach circa 1990s

by Nbr1RamFan on May 28, 2010 3:17 PM CDT reply actions

The Rams

Have already done this. The SB against the Steelers was in the Rose Bowl. The Colleseum was their home stadium but the Rose Bowl is very close. Well within the LA area. Adjacent, or nearly adjacent, city. UCLA plays in one and USC plays in the other. Maybe the Rams could wind up being the first team to play two home SBs.

by LARams1968 on May 29, 2010 7:43 AM CDT up reply actions

How would that be different than any other year?

I can take a beating ... I'm a Rams fan.

by Midasknight on May 28, 2010 3:36 PM CDT reply actions

I am not a fan of cold weather, sloppy conditions Super Bowls.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

- John Wayne

by Tackle Box on May 28, 2010 5:36 PM CDT reply actions

If Kroenke buys the team and works out a deal for a new stadium,

then we would have a chance for a Super Bowl. Otherwise I just don’t think it is going to happen. The Ed is not big enough, and St. Louis isn’t exactly one of the favored cities in the NFL.

by andyrose on May 28, 2010 9:48 PM CDT reply actions

I hate domes

I think a SB in the cornfield would be great. I kind of think it should rotate so every fan gets a chance to see one in their home city. I just hate domes. Football should be played outside and only stopped for lightning. Well maybe an earthquake, if its bad enough. I went to one game in a dome and didn’t like it. The game was fun to watch but the noise was terrible.

by LARams1968 on May 29, 2010 7:49 AM CDT reply actions

Just because a SB is played in a city

doesn’t mean any of the fans from that city can get tickets. A big chunk of the best seats go to the big spenders and insiders favored by the NFL. Then the fans of the two teams playing get a block of tickets. There just aren’t many seats available for people living in the host city.

We went to the SB in New Orleans when the Rams lost to the Pats. We had tickets the Rams offered to season ticket holders. We were in the upper deck clear in the corner past the back line of the end zone. If those are the tickets the fans of the teams playing in the game receive, you know all the better seats went to big spending insiders and favored money people. The fan on the street is going to have a very tough time even getting a ticket.

by andyrose on May 29, 2010 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions

There is also a 3rd block of tickets

For the host team’s season ticket holders. I saw SB VII and the one with the Traitors and Viqueens that way. Missed the Rams vs. Squeelers because I was off in the PI doing the Air Force thing. Your right about the amount of left over tickets. After the scalpers, I mean ticket agencies, are done there aren’t many left.

by LARams1968 on May 30, 2010 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions