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

[Gwedd]

If the league wants a Superbowl in Gillette, they'll find a way to make it work. The awards go out a couple years in advance, anyway, so plenty of time for the host area to make the arrangements needed.

 

[Bobs My Uncle]

The tour guide says so?

 

[Huckleberry1]

bad idea, that stadium would be too big and would look half empty when they aren't a first place team all season every season. Frigging Belichick, what a crappy job he does.

 

[shmessy]

Route 1 would be the biggest cluster of all time.

What do you mean by "would be"?

 

[shmessy]

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

Oh god oh god someone get me my oil can!

2019??? No.

He'd be retired and able to devote 100% of his time to his greatest passion - - - TV commercials.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

Goodell and kraft are biddies right? Chances went up!

 

[AzPatsFan]

The Pats play in the smallest stadium in the AFCE. That is a financial problem, sooner or later.

One of the best improvements for the SB would be adding a couple of rail sidings, so additional trains from Boston and Providence could be added.

That would help traffic for all games.

Adding 15,000 seats might be excessive at 83,000 capacity; but 10,000 additional seats giving 78,000 total capacity would not.

I never understood why a connector off I-95 to Gillette, and Route 1, and/or extended to I-495 as infeasible, (other than politicians not seeing seeing Kraft willing to line their pockets).

 

[NE_PATS_FAN_54]

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.

Completely agree. It's one thing to say that they shouldn't host the super bowl. But there is no doubt that they COULD host the super bowl. Between Boston and Providence, I think it could easily be done. Media Day would be at either the TD Garden or the Convention Center in Southie (which they are also expanding in coming years). Teams could stay in either Providence or Boston. All fan events could be hosted in Boston. It could easily happen.

Most importantly, Bobby Kraft would about 79/80 years old around 2019 and I could easily envision the NFL awarding him a Super Bowl as a legacy gift of sorts for all he has done for the league.

 

[SB39]

This rumor is ridiculous. There is no way in the world the league holds back-to-back Super Bowls in cold weather locales - and yes I know the Minnesota one will be indoors but it still isn't an area conducive to playing 18 in February.

 

[SB39]

I hope that Boston hosts the Olympics and the Superbowl.

Boston hosting the Olympics would be the biggest disaster to hit the city in our lifetimes. It would make the Big Dig look like the measure of well run, responsible spending.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I never understood why a connector off I-95 to Gillette, and Route 1, and/or extended to I-495 as infeasible, (other than politicians not seeing seeing Kraft willing to line their pockets).

Easy to say when it's not your house and land that would be taken and destroyed to build that.

Anyway, looking at a map it would appear the only feasible way to connect to I-95 would be from off Patriot Place Road, over the railroad tracks, and going around the north end of the Neponset Reservoir. And that would take out an entire neighborhood. Bleep that. I live up near Boston and I'd be working to fight any attempt to take people's homes so Kraft can ring up more $$.

Can't go south of the reservoir -- that's already the path of MA-140 and would go right through Foxboro center.

And, again looking at the map, I can't see why or how you'd build a connector to I-495.