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Nashville seems like a national darling when it comes to hosting big events--whether music or sports.
Nashville is a red hot "new sports city," with the city landing the MLS team a couple years ago, having the super successful NHL Predators and on the tick upwards, NFL Titans.
Also, the city is regularly coming up in MLB expansion conversations, as the #1 or #2 city pick for a new team.
Greater Buffalo has 15,561 hotel rooms, far too few for a Superbowl. The other side of the falls has a similar number (exactly three more) but the border would be an issue, and it's still not a big number. Greater Nashville has nearly 58,000.
Also, a cold weather city? And a small one to boot?
I'm surprised that Nashville hasn't hosted the Super Bowl at this point quite frankly, perhaps due to being a little "too cold" to hosting it, even though it's been hosted up in NJ with a colder climate. Surprisingly, there hasn't been a country music artist heading the halftime show since Shania Twain in 2003, likely since sponsors feel that genre doesn't generate the ratings/revenue that the more popular pop/rock genres do, so don't get your hopes up expecting Jason Aldean or Luke Combs performing at halftime.
Also, I doubt Buffalo will EVER host a Super Bowl as long as it isn't a domed stadium; near-record cold weather in Nashville is a run-of-the-mill February night up in Buffalo.
Greater Buffalo has 15,561 hotel rooms, far too few for a Superbowl. The other side of the falls has a similar number (exactly three more) but the border would be an issue, and it's still not a big number. Greater Nashville has nearly 58,000.
Also, a cold weather city? And a small one to boot?
Something to keep in mind is that Buffalo is the 3rd smallest metro in land area with at least 1 million residents(only Milwaukee and Hartford are smaller). So, many would stay in southern Ontario on the Canadian side and in the adjacent Rochester metro, which also has over 1 million people in the metro area. So, when looking at Buffalo, it can be a bit misleading to just use its metro land area of only 1586 or so square miles.
This is another example where comparing a Northeastern area with a Southern area may not be tit for tat, as if you combine the Buffalo and Rochester areas, it would have about 200k more people than the Nashville metro, but in about 800 less square miles(about 2300 less than the Nashville CSA and about 100k more people). So, this just illustrates what I’m referring to and this isn’t including the 1 million or so people in the Niagara Region/Peninsula. Even adding that may still make it less than the Nashville area in land area and that is still leaving a few nearby counties out.
Last edited by ckhthankgod; 06-02-2023 at 05:54 PM..
I'm surprised that Nashville hasn't hosted the Super Bowl at this point quite frankly, perhaps due to being a little "too cold" to hosting it, even though it's been hosted up in NJ with a colder climate. Surprisingly, there hasn't been a country music artist heading the halftime show since Shania Twain in 2003, likely since sponsors feel that genre doesn't generate the ratings/revenue that the more popular pop/rock genres do, so don't get your hopes up expecting Jason Aldean or Luke Combs performing at halftime.
Also, I doubt Buffalo will EVER host a Super Bowl as long as it isn't a domed stadium; near-record cold weather in Nashville is a run-of-the-mill February night up in Buffalo.
Detroit has hosted 2 Super Bowls and Minneapolis has hosted one. So, if Buffalo had a domed stadium, it would/could have had a chance.
Metro size doesn't seem relevant to the hotel numbers, unless there's a big cluster just outside it. Most rooms in any region tend to be closer to the urban core.
As for Minneapolis and Detroit, they're far bigger cities, with more hotel rooms, bigger airports, more corporate sponsors....
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