Why would Kyle Field host games? College football stadiums are generally shite. The only one worthwhile is the Rose Bowl because of the history, but if that Farmers Field (sick as frick potential stadium in LA) comes to fruition, then that could replace the Rose Bowl.

I would pick:

Meadowlands
Field in LA
49ers new stadium
Century link - Seattle deserves it for their love of soccer if they put in real grass
Soldier Field - old but you gotta have Chicago assuming they re-sod
New Falcons stadium
Eagles stadium
Jerry World (with real grass)

I would love to see the Vikings host games, but i do not know if there is enough to see in Minnesota.

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Posted by svb

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Posted on 8/16/13 at 11:19 pm to Vicks Kennel Club

- Chicago wasn't even one of the final 18 host cities in the 2022 bid because Soldier Field is too small.

- There would have been other small renovations to some stadiums surely, but no new stadiums would be built other than an Atlanta stadium.

- The Rose Bowl is the only college stadium that was in the final bid, I believe.

quote:

– All stadiums would meet the pitch size requirements of 105 x 68 metres (pending event-specific adjustments).
– All stadiums would have grass pitches.
– The opening match and final could only be
hosted in the New York, Washington, Los
Angeles or Dallas stadiums.
– Seven stadiums (Dallas, Kansas City, Los
Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, San Diego and Tampa) seem to have limited public transport links to their respective city centres.
– All stadiums would meet FIFA’s seating requirements.
– In general, the stadiums would have to be upgraded to meet FIFA’s space and technical requirements.

- Most cities would have needed some infrastructure work done, whether it be more hotel rooms or renovated highways.

The 18 stadiums/host cities are found in this document (along with the quoted list above): LINK

The 18 cities are:
Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, Washington DC.

They would have possibly reduced that number to 16 or some other number after being selected as hosts. I would imagine San Diego would have been near the top of the list because Qualcomm Stadium is a POS.

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Basically all of what I said was found in this PDF which was the Bid Analysis that the guy in the reddit post was talking about. I just had to post because some of you guys didn't seem to know what you were talking about.