Jaguars unveil stadium plans ... for Jacksonville

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It's probably already the best football stadium in FL.This will make it even more so.

If TLaw and Etienne continue to develop, this will be a destination place to watch a game.

Honestly, they should just rotate the SB between here, Houston, and Sofi
 

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Here? Meaning Jacksonville? I seem to recall what a nightmare it was when the Pats played there for the Super Bowl.
That was 18 years ago and included a Pats win anyway. Jays have made improvements to the stadium. Most notably a pool.
 

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Super Bowls aside, this complex looks to be something worth considering for a road trip
 

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It's probably already the best football stadium in FL.This will make it even more so.

If TLaw and Etienne continue to develop, this will be a destination place to watch a game.

Honestly, they should just rotate the SB between here, Houston, and Sofi
Aren't Jacksonville and Houston considered by pretty much everyone to be the two worst warm weather areas to host Super Bowls?
 

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Aren't Jacksonville and Houston considered by pretty much everyone to be the two worst warm weather areas to host Super Bowls?
Yea, they may get another SB as part of the package to get a new stadium, but I believe its known as a 3rd rate SB destination.

Tier 1-
San Diego
Miami
LA
New Orleans
Vegas (?)
(Soon to be?) Nashville

Tier 2-
Arizona
Atlanta
NY
Dallas
Tampa

Tier 3-
Indy
Houston
Jax
Minneapolis
 

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These are not the three I would have picked.
Jacksonville and Houston are two of the worst cities I’ve ever been to. Houston especially.

We went to the Jacksonville Pats Super Bowl and it was terrible. We had to fly into Orlando and drive. We got to Jacksonville at 10am I believe and had to ask a cop where to go for the Super Bowl. It was completely dead, like Hartford at night dead. We ended up parking right next to the Stadium since they didn’t even setup the perimeter until like 1pm and just tailgated and hung out which was fun. I can’t imagine being there for 3 days for it. The game was awesome but Jacksonville was a joke.
 

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I have been to Jacksonville for medical care (my wife had surgery at the Mayo Clinic). Horrible city. Tough to find a good place to eat or watch a movie. Also terrible hotels.

We ended up driving to Orlando for a few days to spend her recovery period there and drove back for the follow up appointment. Absolutely not a place I would like to visit by choice.

My wife also spent some time in Houston (her mother was getting treated at MDAnderson). Not as terrible as Jacksonville but not ideal either.
 

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I have been to Jacksonville for medical care (my wife had surgery at the Mayo Clinic). Horrible city. Tough to find a good place to eat or watch a movie. Also terrible hotels.

We ended up driving to Orlando for a few days to spend her recovery period there and drove back for the follow up appointment. Absolutely not a place I would like to visit by choice.

My wife also spent some time in Houston (her mother was getting treated at MDAnderson). Not as terrible as Jacksonville but not ideal either.
Savannah and even St Augustine are way nicer than Orlando, how did you make that call?
 

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I have been to Jacksonville for medical care (my wife had surgery at the Mayo Clinic). Horrible city. Tough to find a good place to eat or watch a movie. Also terrible hotels.

We ended up driving to Orlando for a few days to spend her recovery period there and drove back for the follow up appointment. Absolutely not a place I would like to visit by choice.

My wife also spent some time in Houston (her mother was getting treated at MDAnderson). Not as terrible as Jacksonville but not ideal either.
I second this. Jacksonville is a miserable city.
 

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Jax beaches are good, Amelia Island is good, Augustine is good. I agree it doesn’t have the infrastructure to host a SB but acting like it sucks…compared to what?
 

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Savannah and even St Augustine are way nicer than Orlando, how did you make that call?
It's what we Latin tourists knew and it was a 1.5 hour drive.

Got a nice rate on a Marriott close to Disney and drove. (plus we flew into MCO to get to Jacksonville).

BTW every time I think of Jacksonville I remember the "Non international airport" from The Good Place
 

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It's what we Latin tourists knew and it was a 1.5 hour drive.

Got a nice rate on a Marriott close to Disney and drove. (plus we flew into MCO to get to Jacksonville).

BTW every time I think of Jacksonville I remember the "Non international airport" from The Good Place
I used to fly that airport a lot to Providence.
 

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Super Bowls, like every other major sports league, should reward the participant with the best record with the Super Bowl. This would require every NFL City to be ready with appropriate infrastructure, hotel accommodations, public transportation, to host the game. The game has been played in Minneapolis and Pontiac, MI, which is literally in the middle of nowhere. Aside from rewarding the teams who deserve the home field advantage, it also rewards the host city who has supported the team (often with crazy tax incentives) with the chance at transformational economic development.

I agree that Jacksonville is not an ideal host city, it just isn't all that big, isn't an airport hub, etc., but who is to say it couldn't be with that kind of influx of cash.
 

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Yea, they may get another SB as part of the package to get a new stadium, but I believe its known as a 3rd rate SB destination.

Tier 1-
San Diego
Miami
LA
New Orleans
Vegas (?)
(Soon to be?) Nashville

Tier 2-
Arizona
Atlanta
NY
Dallas
Tampa

Tier 3-
Indy
Houston
Jax
Minneapolis
Does SF/Santa Clara slot into Tier 2?
 

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Possibly but my hunch is tier 3. A number of friends have been and they say there simply isn't anything close to the stadium yet. One friend who has been to Foxboro said they are similar in distance to major hubs.
 

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I flew BWI-JAX a number of times for work travel to Brunswick, GA. It was easier than flying to Savannah.

I think Jacksonville is the only place I've ever been to a Waffle House, before Waffle House was cool.

That's all I got.
I think I had to connect in Baltimore a fair amount of times. I preferred it to Tallahassee-Atlanta-Green/Logan. I was broke so Southwest was probably cheapest those years because I would definitely not do that drive now just to fly out of Jax.
 

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Yea, they may get another SB as part of the package to get a new stadium, but I believe its known as a 3rd rate SB destination.

Tier 1-
San Diego
Miami
LA
New Orleans
Vegas (?)
(Soon to be?) Nashville

Tier 2-
Arizona
Atlanta
NY
Dallas
Tampa

Tier 3-
Indy
Houston
Jax
Minneapolis
Who would want another Super Bowl (Edited) in New York? Pick the wrong weekend and it's a shitshow weather wise.
 
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Yea, they may get another SB as part of the package to get a new stadium, but I believe its known as a 3rd rate SB destination.

Tier 1-
San Diego
Miami
LA
New Orleans
Vegas (?)
(Soon to be?) Nashville

Tier 2-
Arizona
Atlanta
NY
Dallas
Tampa

Tier 3-
Indy
Houston
Jax
Minneapolis
The Super Bowl is in Vegas this season. And Santa Clara should be somewhere on the list because they just got Super Bowl 60.
 

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Super Bowl. But I'd still rate NYC a shitty place to have one because of the weather risks, trade MPLS' stadium with the Meadowlands and sign me up.

Also, unless I'm missing something, there won't be one in SD.
 
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the super bowl should be
LA ZONA LV SF HOU INDY NO ATL and TB
If Indy, you may as well add MN.

Tampa is not that good. The weather is good but the stadium is not that nice and it’s not exactly in an excellent location. It’s fine.
 

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Tampa is the worst. There are no hotels and no bars/restaurants within walking distance (other than Chick-Fila a mile away that is of course closed on Superbowl Sundays. )
parking and traffic are bad too and it takes forever to get to a beach from there and bad part of town and Sias tomb is probably in smelling distance
 

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We went to the Jacksonville Pats Super Bowl and it was terrible. We had to fly into Orlando and drive. We got to Jacksonville at 10am I believe and had to ask a cop where to go for the Super Bowl. It was completely dead, like Hartford at night dead. We ended up parking right next to the Stadium since they didn’t even setup the perimeter until like 1pm and just tailgated and hung out which was fun. I can’t imagine being there for 3 days for it. The game was awesome but Jacksonville was a joke.
I was lucky enough to go to a bunch of Super Bowls with my job in a former life. Jacksonville was by far the worst, not ready for prime time city I went to. There weren't nearly enough hotel rooms, so to stay somewhere within an hour, we stayed on a docked cruise ship. If it sounds glamorous, it wasn't. Nothing on the ship was open, the rooms are tiny, and it's a pain in the ass to get on and off. And hotel room availability was only one problem with the city. I despise Houston as a city, and it wasn't a very good Super Bowl location, but it was way better. Detroit is Detroit, but it was way better. Seriously, Jacksonville should never host a Super Bowl again.
 

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I was lucky enough to go to a bunch of Super Bowls with my job in a former life. Jacksonville was by far the worst, not ready for prime time city I went to. There weren't nearly enough hotel rooms, so to stay somewhere within an hour, we stayed on a docked cruise ship. If it sounds glamorous, it wasn't. Nothing on the ship was open, the rooms are tiny, and it's a pain in the ass to get on and off. And hotel room availability was only one problem with the city. I despise Houston as a city, and it wasn't a very good Super Bowl location, but it was way better. Detroit is Detroit, but it was way better. Seriously, Jacksonville should never host a Super Bowl again.
But ... should it get a new stadium?