Why the Super Bowl Should Come to Kansas City
“Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.” Brett Favre. People love the Super Bowl because it’s the biggest game of the year for what some people call the most competitive sport. Having it in Kansas City would boost the city’s revenue and perhaps more people would come and visit again. The three reasons the Super Bowl should come to Kansas City are, the city has great transportation, hospitality, and food, it’s in the middle of the country so no one will have to travel cross country, and that the Super Bowl has never been to Kansas City, and where else is there to host it that’s as great a place as Kansas City? The first reason the Super Bowl should come to Kansas City is that the city has great transportation, hospitality, and food. Kansas City is the 2nd largest rail center in the U.S. The city has over 30,000 hotel rooms, 200 fountains, a zoo and many other attractions and places to stay. To some, Kansas City is the barbecue capital of the world, with dozens of restaurants offering
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The Super Bowl has never been to Kansas City. It’s been played in Miami ten times, New Orleans ten times, and around the Los Angeles area seven times. That’s 27 of the 50 Super Bowls played in three locations. That’s over half of them. It has never been hosted in Kansas City, and as l have already explained, Kansas City is a great place to host the Super Bowl. Plus, fans will be greeted with numerous new areas in the stadium including the Founder’s Plaza, the Horizon Level, the Chiefs Sports Lab, the Chiefs Hall of Honor, a Founder’s Club, a luxurious Club Level and a new team store. Other improvements include an upgraded sound and scoreboard system, a 360-degree video ribbon board, concourses that are doubled in size and an upgraded variety of food and beverage
The Dallas Cowboys could not become this wealthy without the contribution of Jerry Jones, his daughter Charlotte Jones Anderson, the new AT&T stadium, adapting to their own merchandise line, the famous Cowboys cheerleaders, and how the Dallas Cowboys are able to target a wide variety of audiences and
The fan cost index is also more at Soldier Field coming in at $686.10, which is $107.60 difference between the team teams. Ticket prices has far as trends go, has continued to increase throughout the years. The NFL has always had a huge fan base, and with teams moving to different cities like LA and Las Vegas it will only mean increased ticket prices and items sold within the
Super Bowls are great for an overall view of the quality of a franchise over time but they don’t really give us a realistic look at how that franchise stacks up against the others on a year-to-year basis. Playoff appearances on the other hand do. It’s impossible to win a Super Bowl if you can’t make the playoffs. Going to the playoffs generally means that team was better than most in the league and can possibly contend for a Super Bowl. Lets take a look at how well Jerry Jones the General Manager has faired in making the playoffs without Jimmy Johnson as the head coach.
After playing only eight seasons in Tulane Stadium, on September 28, 1975 the Saints lost 21-0 to the Cincinnati Bengals for their first regular season NFL game in the Louisiana Superdome. In 1980 the Saints finished the season with franchise worst record of 1-15. Fans showed up at the Superdome wearing paper bags over their heads and
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In August of 2002 the stadium went into a major renovation, which included 20 climate controlled luxury suites, new clubhouses for both home and away teams, batting cages, 2 picnic areas, two team stores, a sports lounge, and a video scoreboard (“Modern Woodmen Park”). Some things have stayed the same throughout the years though, such as the breathtaking view of the mississippi flowing under the centennial bridge viewable from the ballpark (“Modern Woodmen
NFL Style Five Themes of Geography Paragraph 1 Location You will find the Carolina Panthers Football Team at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The latitude of Charlotte is 35.21°N. And the longitude is 80.44° W. The city’s tours will be discussed in paragraph 4.
The new stadium is said to include many new and improved features including new state of the art technology, and a huge hospitality center. The SunTrust stadium will also be about 20% smaller than the Braves original stadium. Fans fear that with the smaller space will create a problem with crowding, but the Brave’s employees seem to be confident in their actions as they state “We do not discount the concerns appellants have raised about the wisdom of the stadium project and the commitments Cobb County has made to entice the Braves to move there”(Sigo). The concerns for available space in the stadium has not gotten the Braves anxious at
Super Bowl LII: A Million Dollar Advertisement Upon the first Sunday of February each year, the two remaining football teams in the NFL come together to compete and continue a national holiday that dates back to 1967. In that inaugural year, it cost approximately $40,000 to occupy a slot of time on the television screens of 50 million people around the country. 51 years later, in 2018, that price has been heightened to between 5 and 5.5 million dollars, now attracting nearly 100 million viewers each year.
The Detroit lions competed with the league’s best including their natural born rival, the Chicago Bears. The two teams tied for the 1932 national championship. The Detroit Lions were not the first professional sports team to play on Thanksgiving day. In fact, before the Lions, the Detroit Panthers played in a Thanksgiving day game.
Alec Michaud Mr. Bergmann Sophomore Honors English II P6 10 October 2016 Lambeau Field, a Mark on History The ground below is rattling to the thunderous beat of rambunctious spectators with the anticipation of the battle that is set to be fought on this very field! The senseless chaos ceases as a loud roar erupts from the stands as the Green Bay Packers emerge from the tunnel. “With 13 super bowl rings and 53 postseason appearances it’s easy to say that Green Bay is one of the most dominant teams in the NFL” (Packers team Records). The iconic team has many notable attributes that set them apart, but one of the most recognizable is there historic stadium, Lambeau Field.
As the Super Bowl festivities continue to grow, slowly but surely many of San Francisco’s homeless people are being kicked out of their spots and are being gathered into shelters. In the article published by Alison Vekshin, “San Francisco nudges homeless away from Super Bowl fan village,” she expresses how the media does not want San Francisco to be viewed with poverty so they are kicking out the poor people to make room for activities and media signs that are associated with the Super Bowl. People are focusing too much on what makes them look good, but in reality when people hear about these unbelievable stories they think of them in a wrong way and it makes them look unpropitious. It is very obvious that people only want to see a
The football that we know today started in 1922 when the American Professional Football Association change its name to the National Football League. The team with the best regular season record was the champion. in 1960 a second national football league was started to compete with the NFL. Eventually it ended up the being two conferences to make up the NFL, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. The two implemented a system of playoff games and the champions of the two conferences went head to head in a game called the Superbowl.
Ever wonder how one of the most famous sporting events began? Well, I am going to tell you how the First World Championship began. It began when two rival football companies, AFL and NFL fought to win the name as the best. Then, the AFL and NFL league had a football game to see who would be the best. Eventually, they signed a contract saying that they would merge together to become one and they would use NFL names and all of NFL and AFL teams.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have arguably the most passionate fan base in all of football, making them a marketing and business giant, however, these key strengths for the Steelers are somewhat counterweighted by their weaknesses. To the naked eye the Steelers really have no stand-out drawbacks, they sell out practically every game at Heinz Field, but when taking a closer in depth look at the organization it appears that the Steelers suffer from the same downfalls as the rest of the National Football League. NFL fans are some of the oldest fans in all of sports, these fans that are of old age will soon not be physically able to go to as many games as they once have, the Steelers have one of the oldest fan demographics. Season tickets are passed