Brees: New stadiums becoming crucial for cities to land Super Bowls

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He's right. I hope we haven't seen the last Super Bowl in New Orleans

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They can't build a new stadium every year, the super dome still has a lot things that make it great.

Its proximity to a massive amount of entertainment, restaurants bars and hotels it a huge reason why it is such a popular location.

It doesn't hut that we keep it up.

This opens the floodgates, can of worms, lightning from the storm or whatever.

Everybody knew this was the case here but it's entirely different when a hall of fame QB publicly acknowledges it. It's basically give legitimate weight to an opinion already being widely circulated and he just took into official channels. It'll be interesting to see the response on the NFL's part and certain cities also.

They could level the dome and build a new stadium/dome in it's place. I don't think we need a new stadium though.

They finished second this year and there won't be a new stadium every year. After this, it's Atlanta and San Diego. Then the playing field is leveled again.

But that is a problem with how the NFL is allowed to operate as a non-profit trade organization. The local owners, and yes Benson is just as guilty as the others, are the ones that are making off like bandits. There's not many businesses in the world that are allowed to be fully profitable and receive free rent on the backs of the tax payers.

The problem is that its a very poor practice for Tax dollars to build new stadiums for private franchises that make millions of dollars. The NFL knows this is bad business so as an olive branch, they send the SB to these locations to infuse some of that money back into the local economy.

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While the NFL is a non-profit, the individual organizations are not and are taxed

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I realize the local teams are taxed, but what I am saying is the NFL is a profitable, executive corporation that is being allowed to operate in a non-profit status. They do more than the standard "trade association" status would imply, they hand out millions of dollars to locations based on those locations' willingness to give them free stuff, suspend employees based on the rules they impose, have the authority to block citizens from entering games (which are in publicly-funded facilities), hike prices on tickets/merchandise, and ultimately extort local governments to fund extravagant facilities that have a singular purpose. They run the NFL like a corporation, they should be paying for the privilege to use the local infrastructure.

If I, a private citizen, were to want to host an event in any one of these facilities I would have to pay for the right to do so. Even if I were a non-profit, my NPO would have to pay to host the event. Why is a profitable body not having to do the same? I think the boon of a NFL team in a city is over-stated and over-estimated, especially when aligned with the cost of keeping them in a location when they start making noise.

I love Tiger Stadium, but there is a huge disparity between the expected features of a professional football stadium and a college football stadium. I know a few Saints fans in the NO area (that aren't LSU, or really college football fans) that had to go here after Katrina and they were kind of shocked at the "bare-bones" experience. Of course it wasn't a shock to me because I understood the difference, but hearing those grown men whine about minor issue x, y, z was quite hilarious.

I don't really know what they are going to do to be honest. If that's the rule to get a Super Bowl I really don't think support can be garnered to achieve this. A lot of people in LA have similar thoughts that I listed above about public funds being used for essentially private use. I mean the Dome is fine, the renovations helped a lot. Yes, there are some things that still need to be done, they need to expand the bathrooms and the large display in the middle would be good to probably get at least another Super Bowl bid. I think they still need to replace the upper-level seats. But this is all stuff that can be done in the off-season in the next couple of years.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I would prefer to never have another Super Bowl here over building a new stadium in the next 10-20 years. New Orleans without the Superdome is not dissimilar to NYC without the Empire State Building, that's how important it is to the history and image of the city.

Hosting Super Bowls is great, but it's not the only thing we host down here. Not having it will not cripple the city, and it surely won't affect most of our lives. In fact, it will be helpful not having to deal with traffic.

Just my two cents though.