I was in Santa Clara at the stadium site in July, and there really was much built yet. It is on the backside of Great America Amusement Park which is not much of anything. It is across the street from a nice municipal golf course. Pretty much it is surrounded by high tech companies. I can't say that there are a ton of places to eat, party, or have any fun nearby. There are a whole lot of techno-nerds not your usual football kinda folk. If you are planning on driving anywhere around there, be prepared for non user friendly traffic packed highways. However there is really excellent public transportation that stops directly in front of the site. If the powers that be actually care about fan experience Super Bowl 50 would be in Miami.
Super Bowl 50: Miami versus Santa Clara
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or in the late 80s through the 90s at joe robbie stadium. Must be global warming.
Dolph N.Fan
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I'm thinking the same thing haha.
KevInMotion
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Yes Miami has hosted 10.
The New Orleans area is a close 2nd with 9.
This years Super Bowl will be held in the Superdome, that will tie them with Miami after the conclusion of this season.
I'd have to agree with Baller. While the Bay Area is very lovely, the South Bay Area (Santa Clara, San Jose etc.) would be the least lovely of all of it. To those of us who live in SF, it feels like the Niners are moving really far away...there just aren't many reasons to head down to the South Bay unless you live/work over there, compared to the rest of the SF Bay Area. We live in SF and my wife works in Santa Clara. Her commute is well over an hour. Though I haven't spent significant time in Miami, I do think the SuperBowl "experience" would be much better there. Santa Clara hosting the SB WOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT be like San Francisco hosting the SB, though I am sure that is how they will try to pitch it.
I think they really want to give it to Miami, but are putting the screws to Ross to upgrade the stadium first. The notion that they'll give it to Santa Clara because it's a new stadium is fine on the surface, but they could just as easily give SB 51 (or 52, or 53, etc.) to them instead.
Since they won't announce the winner until 2013, this gives Ross some time to figure out a way to pay for it, one that probably involves little to no taxpayer money.
TheJetsBlow
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If Ross wants it, Ross should pay for it (or at least a majority of it). What he should really pay for is a new stadium downtown, but we all know that will never happen since it's just cheaper to upgrade the ****hole we play in now.
Santa Clara's probably going to get it because they're holding all of the pre-game festivities in San Francisco, which is probably one of the greatest cities in the world. They're also putting up a ton of $$$ for the project, alot more than they're supposed to get.
Not to mention it's a shiny new stadium in an area that really hasn't had one since 1985. I think Santa Clara/SF gets it. Santa Clara's a pretty sketch place, but SF's pretty legit.
The bright side to all of this is that we may just get some nice stadium improvements out of it.
Not to mention it's a shiny new stadium in an area that really hasn't had one since 1985. I think Santa Clara/SF gets it. Santa Clara's a pretty sketch place, but SF's pretty legit.
The bright side to all of this is that we may just get some nice stadium improvements out of it.
It's not one of the greatest cities in the world. Nothing personal against you, but that's hyperbole. I grew up and currently live 90 minutes from the greater Bay Area. The reason I live 90 minutes away is because the Bay Area is a hell hole. It's a dirty, foggy city with unbearable traffic where the wind NEVER stops blowing. It's one of the most overrated cities in the country. Miami has it's share of issues, but it's nicer than SF. As already stated, the South Bay is even worse. Santa Clara is not an appealing place to be in the least. The areas North of the Bay such as Napa, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Sonoma are much, much nicer.
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Peninsula for the win!
Menlo Park/PA/Mountain View is some of the nicest real estate in the world.
Definitely nicer than the City itself and worlds nicer than Santa Clara.
It is a great city. You're entitled to your own opinion, just as I mine, but there's a reason it's on the destination list of so many.
Do you live in Stockton or something? I guess I'd be pissed too if I lived there.
No one is debating whether or not Great America is a grand place to stage the Super Bowl. It'll be a nice stadium, they can show shots of the Golden Gate, and the rest of the city. I'm not a fan of Santa Clara, but I don't like much of the South Bay. Peninsula and parts of Palo Alto/Menlo Park/Mountain View/Half Moon are nice, but San Jose's a giant rat race with tract homes, marijuana dispensaries, and shattered dreams.
So's Dublin and Pleasanton, Manteca, Tracy, Stockton, and Modesto.
God, that city is a dump. I passed through the city a few times during some road trips up and down the west coast and it's almost like a Buffalo of the west coast.
The University of Pacific there's like a gated community in the middle of Mogadishu. They just filed bankruptcy too. Outstanding city.