Stadiums That Will Never Host Another Championship…

Stadiums that will never host another football championship….
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[@sirstewartwallace3917]

I'd add MetLife to the list. Between the cold weather, the issues with the stadium's turf, and the logistical disaster that surrounded their lone Super Bowl hosting gig, I don't think the NFL wants to have their biggest stage be in Jersey again.

[@effend446]

Beat me to it.

[@bigjohn08865]

I agree with you on that

[@vdubproductions2646]

I'm actually shocked Levi's Stadium is getting a second Super Bowl

[@theeshark7038]

Yes, pretty much agree with the list. The driving factor is that the NFL is getting into the vacation/travel business. They want to sell vacation packages that include going to the big game. Nobody wants to go to Detroit for vacation, that's why the Super Bowl is always in Florida, Arizona or New Orleans - and now L.A. too. And that's why the NFL has so many European games, so they can sell vacation packages. I'm sure the NCAA is doing this too in relation to the playoffs and championship games.

[@knutthompson7879]

Another catch with Jacksonville is that, it you are going to Florida, why Jacksonville? Basically a poor man’s Tampa, which is a poor man’s Miami.

[@EricNathanWilson]

You can't forget the concerns that weather could affect people's ability to travel to and from the game. Flying to Detroit or Minneapolis is almost always not a problem, but if a blizzard hit on super bowl weekend that's a lot of money that somebody loses.

[@PhillyBagel]

New Orleans and Miami have hosted more super bowls than any other city and nobody else will catch up. Warm weather and tourism are hard to beat.

[@ec1628]

LA might with the new stadium. The area has hosted eight Super Bowls in three stadiums.

[@andrewalden8364]

You forgot about Stanford Stadium, Rice Stadium and LA Memorial Coliseum. All of which hosted Super Bowls.

[@scottkessel952]

Didn’t Tulane stadium host too?

[@jamesfields2916]

Don't forget Sun Devil Stadium.

[@jamesfields2916]

How about the stadiums that have hosted a Super Bowl and National Title game.

[@MM-fe9mz]

You pictured Lucas Oil Stadium but didn't say anything about it. Its definitely on this list. Indianapolis basically got a "pity" superbowl after bidding for a 2nd time. Its unfortunate since as an overall event city Indianapolis is great with so many hotels within walking distance to the stadium which is right downtown.

[@fiesta061000]

correct..I worked the 2021-22 National Championship game between Georgia and Alabama at LOS..💺🏈📈🏙

[@dr.deathstevewilliamsou7678]

If you have been to the superdome you wouldn't consider it overrated.

[@JaySmith-pv2mw]

I live in Jax. There just isn't the infrastructure or amenities for a Super Bowl here no matter what the stadium has.

[@BrandonJXN2]

It's crazy to think that the Rose Bowl is the 3rd best football stadium in LA after the Coliseum and SoFi. Not many cities have such a collection of iconic stadiums.

[@someperson3883]

Maybe because each stadium only has one team

[@BrandonJXN2]

@@someperson3883 SoFi has 2 teams.

[@someperson3883]

@@BrandonJXN2 I meant most cities woops

[@Gage_Brumley]

Because most cities don't have a million teams like LA has

[@someperson3883]

@@Gage_Brumley Yeah. The Rams are enough for LA. I wish the Chargers stayed in San Diego

[@herschelwright4663]

This would never be an issue with the Grey Cup in Canada.

[@someperson3883]

CFL Final Stadium Selection Meeting: Where should the Grey Cup Final be played, eh? A nice cold stadium, eh. Sorry for wasting your time, eh.

[@jbj7599]

No shit Sherlock, damn near apples to oranges

[@eaglewinnings8003]

If Canadians had stones they would match their schedule with the NFL schedule and play all games outdoors without a roof

[@reverend_wintondupree]

And yet Olympic Stadium and Roger's Centre/Sky Dome may never host another Grey Cup

[@herschelwright4663]

@@reverend_wintondupree well the SkyDome is being converted into a baseball only stadium.

[@BELCAN57]

The NFL will never hold a SB at MetLife again, for sure.

[@diesel9324]

What about MetLife in New Jersey; it hosted a Super Bowl. When the NFL goes to 18 game seasons; the Super Bowl will likely be held on the Sunday before Presidents Day. That is 2 weeks later in the calendar than it was previously held in NJ. Less likely to have a blizzard or snow event that was predicted for the first time.

[@dogcowrph]

I want a Super Bowl in Cleveland. Football next to the lake in February. Old time football. I’ve driven through Buffalo in the winter. Let’s give their new stadium a SB.

[@suntanman99]

Technically Ford Field hosts the MAC Championship Game every year :)

[@suntanman99]

And the MI High School State Championship games each year :)

[@jensonphillips1465]

Forgotten Places, any thoughts on Indy? I know their stadium is beautiful but the downtown and weather are honestly pretty comparable to Detroit. They’ve gotten both though.

[@marcpjoyner]

It is sad seeing the Rose Bowl and Sun Devil stadium on the list. I’m not sure if ASU owns sun devil stadium or not, but there’s just not enough money in UCLA or ASU football for those stadiums to get the lovely upgrades and modernization. One thing I love about college football is the stadiums are all 100+ years old and the schools do a great job freshening them up, adding the suites and luxury boxes, expanding concourses, etc. while usually maintaining the history of the place. I’d love to see you do a series covering the great college stadiums. I’m a southern boy, so you know we love our college football lol

[@DoctorEw220]

What about the Final Four? They want indoor stadiums for that.

[@eaglewinnings8003]

They’ll get final fours for sure because the weather is much milder

[@jensonphillips1465]

Yeah Detroit is getting their second Final Four at Ford Field in 2027.

[@Boulder_Bill]

The cotton bowl in Dallas has been pretty much deserted since they opened AT&T stadium. It gets only a handful of events all year.

[@nperry106]

I was surprised they held the Winter Classic there in 2020

[@nickparadies350]

This is why I think it’s so stupid that Nashville is spending two billion dollars on a new Titans stadium instead of things that could actually help the city. We’re gonna get the Super Bowl once and then never again, and it’ll just be this tax albatross that stops us from getting good transit or road improvements.

[@haydenallen23]

NCAA should just make the Rose Bowl the national championship

[@stalegum]

Me and my dad went to the Jacksonville Super Bowl. We had to stay in Daytona. Also, it took three hours for our bus to get out of the parking lot.

[@effend446]

If you're a NASCAR fan, that would've been perfect to stay in Daytona because you could've stretched that stay a couple more weeks to attend the Daytona 500.

[@MaxWilliams247]

They’ll definitely have a CFP Final at the Rose Bowl someday. Not saying soon. But it has so much cachet to it, and what matters is TV. SoFi is great, but the notoriety of the 150th Rose Bowl game, for example, is enough for it to make sense, financially, for it to host. Plus, it’s already hosting semifinal games regularly.

[@allenelliott2114]

I imagine eventually the Rose Bow will go the same way as the Cotton Bowl. They'll still call it the "Rose Bowl game" but it'll be played at So-Fi, just like the Cotton being played at AT&T. The degree to which this ticks me off cannot be overstated.

[@mdx799]

Good content 👍

[@99somerville]

Easy answer. No private boxes and no high tech video screens means no more big games.

[@hiatus07]

As a soccer fan, I love Rose Bowl. The masive capacity and longevity make it a historic stadium, including that it hosted the finals of the 1994 World Cup and 1999 Women's World Cup.

[@natewunderman4597]

Another reason why the Rose Bowl is being supplanted by So Fi is that the former is located in the middle of an affluent Pasadena residential neighborhood where the streets are wholly inadequate to handle game traffic, nor is there enough parking (the local golf course and any available lawn space is used). Also, the closest public transit is at least a hilly three mile walk crossing a freeway. Access in and out of the Rose Bowl for any event of more than 20,000 is pure torture.

[@ec1628]

The east side of the stadium is entirely dedicated to public transit. The busses take you directly to downtown Pasadena and the Gold Line. The golf course is unique and fun to tail gate on. But I do have to agree with you on exiting . It can be extremely difficult to exit the stadium.

[@johncassani6780]

There will never be another Super Bowl hosted at a venue that is not a home stadium of an NFL franchise, unless, perhaps, they ever decide to host one in London. They had one at Stanford Stadium back in the 80s too (Super Bowl XIX), when the 49ers played at Candlestick Park. With the public and private money that has been put into building NFL stadiums, there would never be a justification.

[@ec1628]

@@johncassani6780Also up until the 90’s, the difference between college and nfl stadiums were negligible. Many of the dual purpose or older nfl stadiums were horrible. After the mid ‘90’s, the nfl stadiums far exceeded any dual purpose or college venue.

[@johncassani6780]

@@ec1628 Yes. That is true. They were built on a budget, to maximize the number of fans who could get through the gates. The alternatives in the LA and SF markets were the LA Coliseum, which was large, but by no means luxurious, and Candlestick was smaller than Palo Alto, and certainly had no reputation for luxury. The worst stadium built in this era was, arguably, Schaeffer Stadium in Foxborough, which was a 60,000 seat high school field, with only a few bathrooms. But, it wasn’t multipurpose!

[@jgon9]

NFL is more of a show than an actual sport. 12 mins of action and more worry about super bowl commercials and halftime shows.

[@scottfarmer8758]

I'm surprised that Dallas hasn't gotten another Super Bowl

[@kibitznec700]

It sucks

[@tannerwilson4843]

They is a good chance that we will host the 2026 World Cup Championship Game. If we do get it, they has to be another Super Bowl coming to Dallas soon.

[@darryljorden9177]

You do wonder if the NFL takes into account the home team and how likely it is that they will host a Super Bowl that they participate in. The NFL has been, until recently, very fortunate in avoiding this. Every year, it seems, the Cowboys are touted as being a Super Bowl contender (and every year they fall flat on their faces).

[@patmanbnl]

I would also add MetLife Stadium and Lucas Oil Field If we're not counting the Final Four.

[@jasonrandom372]

You forgot Met Life Stadium and the LA Collessium. The home of the very first superbowl.

[@ec1628]

Good call on the Coliseum. Just like the Rose Bowl, it does not have the modern money making amenities.

[@joeyager8479]

All of these were built with your local tax dollars and they're only used 6-8 times per year.

[@jg90049]

It's a shame about the Rose Bowl, but you're probably right.

[@njv1234]

I believe Jacksonville should get another shot after they rebuild their stadium, improve their downtown, and bring in cruise ships again. New hotels have been built since 2005. Not the same city 🏙️

[@jeffc1347]

The NFL gives every cold weather city that builds them a new indoor/retractable roof stadium with one a super bowl as a "yea we're going to bring the super bowl if you build us a stadium," but then won't go back lol. Like he said in the video they will go back to warm weather cities over and over even with trash stadiums because people like to party. They gave NYC a super bowl at their new outdoor stadium just because its NYC (also NYC isn't that cold compared to many other cold weather NFL cities). There is no way Buffalo's new stadium will ever get a super bowl.

[@kevinhover461]

From Buffalo. We knew that going into the building of the new stadium. We don’t have the convention space or hotel capacity to host the SB.

[@bertog8080]

Makes me wonder how MetLife got that one superbowl

[@user-jf4nj3ez2k]

The college football national championship is stupid.. especially.playing it on a Monday night in January.

[@djspencer6498]

I agree with all of them. Kinda surprised you didn’t put AT&T Stadium, given the whole debacle that happened when it hosted the Super Bowl in 2011. Keep up the good work man!

[@connerroth3416]

At&t is on the shortlist to host a World Cup final. That event is the biggest single sports match that will take place on us soil for decades. So while it may not see American football championships, it’s far from obsolete as a championship stadium.

[@djspencer6498]

@@connerroth3416 well, I guess I forgot about AT&T hosting the Big 12 Championship, which saves it from being here. It’ll probably never host another Super Bowl though.

[@LymetimeProductions]

​@@djspencer6498well Detroit has the MAC Championship but I doubt that counts for much

[@sirstewartwallace3917]

Dallas was considered to be the alternate site in the event Los Angeles wasn't able to host Super Bowl LVI due to a proposed attendance cap as a result of Omicron. I think Dallas will get it again at some point so to not make things monotonous.

[@djspencer6498]

@@LymetimeProductions not really, given that the MAC isn’t a power-5 conference.

[@scottalford7159]

I went to Super Bowl 40 in Detroit (thanks coors light contest) and it was freaken cold , we are from Phoenix and hosted a few SBs and this is a correct assessment ! They won’t go back to Detroit!

[@LogoAttitude]

I want Detroit to have a chance at a Super Bowl not riddled with controversy so they should be awarded another one. In fact, the 30 NFL stadiums should just rotate hosting the Super Bowl. There are quite a bit of teams that have either never hosted at all or just in their current market. I'm hugely in favor of Cleveland getting a game. Cleveland Browns Stadium is the oldest NFL stadium that has never hosted postseason football above the high school level, we can thank Art Modell for that. Besides, cold weather football is real football.

[@effend446]

4:31 And, of course, State Farm Stadium has a retractable roof. Still, I miss the Fiesta Bowl played at Sun Devil Stadium. Especially January of 1987, when my Penn State Nitanny Lions upset Miami to win the national championship.

[@unclescottie2hottie192]

It’s a waste of taxpayer monies to continue to support Professional and College stadiums for short terms gains and long term problems.

[@justherefortalking]

Audio's a bit rough on this one. Got some crackle on the high end, which I don't remember happening before.

[@johnnguyen6159]

In terms of cold weather cities how about Indianapolis and NYC Metro Area?

[@k1ngbutch]

I agree with you on the Superdome & Tampa stadium

[@LordZontar]

The Rose Bowl game will be held in Pasadena as always. The matchup is already scheduled. There is no talk of moving that game to SoFi Stadium.

[@forgottenplaces9780]

I never said it was, were talking about the national championship game, the national championship game will not be held at the rose bowl

[@joshuabidgood2915]

The Rose Bowl location and game will never host another national championship in cfb. After this year, it will be a quarterfinal, or semi final game. Starting in 2024 season, the CFB championship game is not a bowl game at all.

[@KBroly]

I think Allegiant Stadium in Vegas is going to be a rotational host of the Super Bowl in the future alongside SoFi, as it's arguably the nicest stadium the NFL has and the League is just so deep in the gambling space these days. That means less room for cold weather super bowls.

[@Minny_Paul]

I could care less if the Super Bowl ever returns to US Bank Stadium. I just wanna see WrestleMania hosted there once in my lifetime. I doubt it'll ever happen since March and April are bipolar weather months in MN. But a guy could dream, right?

[@lucianoalonso4389]

It could happen considering it's a dome stadium

[@Enginshim]

Wrestlemania in Philly May be nuts. They got lucky with the weather when it was at Met Life, but early April in the northeast is not great.

[@lucianoalonso4389]

@@Enginshim I'll be at that WrestleMania

[@Minny_Paul]

@@lucianoalonso4389 Have fun.

[@sirekumasutra7022]

I think Summerslam is your best. I had floor seats at Summerslam at Ford Field this year and I think that's the perfect show for Minneapolis.

[@KittyPurrfect100]

Why build an indoor stadium in Arlington Heights if the Super Bowl will be played once? Soldier Field in the 80s was really awesome, now it looks like crap. Bears are the Monsters of the Midway of the Black & Blue Division. Need a new stadium to keep up with the Jones

[@dillondelhoney714]

Yeah, so play in the exact same stadiums over and over and over again.

[@KOSMOinfinite]

I disagree with that first. The "Rose Bowl Game" is a whole entity that is tied to the stadium and Pasedena. If there is no Rose Bowl Stadium then there is no Rose Bowl game. There is big branding and history tied to that name which The Rose Bowl Inc. all has ownership of. They could sell the rights to the game but part of me thinks, out of pride, they would rather ill the whole thing then pawn it off to LA and SoFi. It is already in murky waters now with the implosion of the Pac-12 as now they automatic conference tie-in does not exist anymore. There will be changes but many hope the game can still live on as is. Rose Bowl Stadium is dated but it is a classic gem for football and soccer, no different than Fenway or Wrigley for baseball. Football lacks many true classic stadiums that are still close to their original form.

[@jjheisman122]

1:50 pretty sure the MAC title game is still there.

[@bigjohn08865]

Metlife Stadium in New Jersey will NEVER host another Super Bowl.

[@paulkoza8652]

You hit the nail on the head. I'm of the opinion that the NFL should only host the SB in 3 cities - Miami, New Orleans, and now, Las Vegas. Why? Because the game is more of a party and corporate event than a game. Who wants to party in the snow or in a loacation (LA) that is so spread out. I'd throw NY into the above 3, but there are lots of issues there. I agree that Tampa would be a runner up.

[@snotnosewilly99]

No cold weather stadiums for football championship events The gooey slimy Sports writers and Sports KZbinrs hate the cold weather sites .... ....I done be freezing to death!!!!!!!!

[@peteg2715]

Indianapolis & North Jersey (Metlife) are also never going to get another SB

[@marcpjoyner]

That was diplomatic of you to call the Rose Bowl a very nice stadium lol. It’s probably not a top 75 stadium in FBS right now. It just doesn’t stand up to the modernization and constant renovations that other universities have been doing for decades now

[@camerondelamotte159]

unfortunately new york is a baseball city no $ for football

[@TheWill.Suttie45]

You actually have some good points

[@scottkessel952]

Always curious why Superdome always gets to host Super Bowl. Looks dated. Don’t get it

[@WDI2008]

MetLife Stadium will probably never host another Super Bowl again.

[@7mileDem]

Ford Field Final 4 2028

[@111Swissair]

The LA Coliseum will probably never host a Super Bowl and or a college football championship game. On the other hand, Met Life Stadium will host another Super Bowl in my opinion. Thoughts anyone?

[@alexsebastian1112]

The super bowl will never go back to Met Life. The stadium is aging poorly and the NFL probably wont ever bring it back to an outdoor stadium in a cold weather city. Jets are even trying to get out once their lease is up.

[@kibitznec700]

No. Too freakin cold.

[@bcranford714]

Ford field is hosting the 2027 final 4

[@Visionary_Watcher]

Snarky Comment: Qualcomm/Jack Murphy will never host another one in San Diego since it has been torn down.

[@weatherlou]

The nfl is such a cartel🤣

[@xj6jj]

No mention of Metlife Stadium

[@eaglewinnings8003]

College national championships are rotated between the former BCS bowls so of course they’ll never play in places like Detroit, Indianapolis or Minnesota

[@forgottenplaces9780]

No, not anymore, that was during the BCS era, it doesnt work like that for the College football playoff championship.

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

They have a city bid nowadays like the super bowl

[@birdo623]

Don't forget MetLife!

[@darryljorden9177]

Don't be too surprised if Detroit does host another Super Bowl. Do you know what industry Detroit is known for? That's right, the auto industry. Do you know what one of the NFL leading advertisers is? The auto industry.

[@kibitznec700]

So what. Thats irrelevant.

[@darryljorden9177]

@@kibitznec700 NEVER underestimate the influence of money.

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

@@darryljorden9177the auto industry doesn’t care where the nfl hosts the Super Bowl. They get the same amount of money whether it’s in Detroit or Miami

[@jeffc1347]

I seriously doubt even auto industry execs want the super bowl in Detroit. They want to use their corporate cards to go somewhere warm where they can drink outside.

[@willc6675]

I wonder if this guy from Ohio?

[@GeeEm1313]

Wherever the Cowboys play haha

[@kibitznec700]

at & t stadium really sucks.

[@zevison4019]

Lets go blue

[@Sacto1654]

I do think US Bank Stadium will host another Super Bowl, and so will Lucas Oil Stadium.

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

I don't want to be in a cold weather city in January either, and I live in one.

[@scarpfish]

I know they're antiquated and the sightlines aren't that great compared to modern stadiums, but there's something about those classic old bowl stadiums like the Rose Bowl that scream college football. 🏈🏟