Patriots Looking to Add on to Gillette For Super Bowl Bid?

[Ian]

Interesting note from Russ Goldman:

http://www.patsfans.com/blogs/russ/2014/08/15/patriots-to-potentially-host-the-2019-super-bowl/

 

[brownj12]

It would be a great place to watch Garropolo win his first Superbowl.

 

[signbabybrady]

It would be a great place to watch Brady win his last Superbowl.

Fixed for you.

 

[Galeb]

The bustling metropolis of Foxborough is the ideal location for a super bowl.

 

[Froob]

Fixed for you.

You haters make me sick. Counting Brady out for 2020 already

 

[Geezer Butler]

Route 1 would be the biggest cluster of all time.

 

[Zeus]

Not great from a traffic and parking standpoint.

Once Brady and Belichick are gone, it's going to be a challenge to consistently sell out an 83,000 seat building, particularly with the trend in other cities being toward more and more people being kept warm by their huge screen TVs.

The only upside I could see is if it involves closing the north end zone.

 

[MrNathanDrake]

All Superbowls... wait... ALL STADIUMS.... should be outdoors

 

[MrNathanDrake]

edit: oops

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

Route 1 would be the biggest cluster of all time.

Just make it 30 lanes total

 

[Rob0729]

Actually traffic won't be an issue. You can't park at the Super Bowl. There will be remote locations you go to and go on a bus that brings you to the stadium. That remote location could be close to the highway.

That said, I don't see the Patriots ever winning the host city for the Super Bowl.

 

[chasa]

not unless peyton manning becomes a patriot. the league would do ANYTHING for peyton manning.

 

[Zeus]

Actually traffic won't be an issue. You can't park at the Super Bowl. There will be remote locations you go to and go on a bus that brings you to the stadium. That remote location could be close to the highway.

That said, I don't see the Patriots ever winning the host city for the Super Bowl.

I assumed this would be an addition of 15,000 permanent seats. Having said that, I don't see the Patriots ever realistically hosting a Super Bowl in Foxboro.

 

[mtbykr]

It's just not realistic. There just are not enough hotel rooms for one thing...plus you need major public transportation. Remember last Superbowl in NY, after the game the huge bottleneck getting on the subway.....any they had a decent system. The infrastructure needed just isn't realistic.

 

[AzorianPats]

Route 1 would be the biggest cluster of all time.

Route 1, 95, 93, 128 always has been a cluster fcuk during game day. It would be no different for a SB.

 

[AzorianPats]

It's just not realistic. There just are not enough hotel rooms for one thing...plus you need major public transportation. Remember last Superbowl in NY, after the game the huge bottleneck getting on the subway.....any they had a decent system. The infrastructure needed just isn't realistic.

Between Boston and Providence, there's more than enough hotel rooms to accommodate things. They'd spread out SB week all over the Greater Boston area down to Providence.

I don't really care if Gillette ever hosts a SB or not, but to say that it CAN'T work, when they've awarded it to cold weather cities like NY/NJ, Detroit, Indy, Minneapolis, and suburban cities/towns like Arlington, Tx, Glendale, Santa Clara is just wrong.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

If they want to make it work...they can. And if it does happen..i hope it's 4 degrees out.

 

[Mike the Brit]

I hope that Boston hosts the Olympics and the Superbowl.

I can't see why the traffic for a sold-out Superbowl in Foxboro would be any worse than the traffic for a sold-out play-off game. I agree that the public transportation is awful (the train from South Station would be a disgrace in the Third World) but that could easily be improved.

 

[woolster22]

If they want to make it work...they can. And if it does happen..i hope it's 4 degrees out.

And snowing with twenty mile per hour winds.

 

[Haley]

And snowing with twenty mile per hour winds.

with fivehead (up against Brady) and those neckbolts of his just freezing up.

Oh god oh god someone get me my oil can!