clearly going to be suitable for a Super Bowl<\/a>,\u201d Goodell said, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. \u201cI think the real challenge is going to be how transformational this is here. The airport is important for us. Hotels are important for us. All of the facilities are the biggest challenge for hosting a Super Bowl now. We have probably close to 200,000 people coming in for a Super Bowl. It\u2019s great for economic impact, but it\u2019s hard for cities to be able to meet some of those requirements on the facilities. So that\u2019s the biggest challenge.\u201d<\/p>\nHotel space may be the biggest challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the lowest we have is high 40s of hotels,\u201d Goodell said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know what the number is here. I think it\u2019s about half that, roughly. And it\u2019s also the quality of hotels, but also the airport\u2019s a really important issue. And I think the airport from what I understand is going to be part of the development here and part of that opportunity. So there\u2019s a chance here for this to be the transformational type of project that converts and has more events that people need to come to and hotels start to develop. The airport expands and you get that kind of infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the problem with potentially doubling the number of hotels. If the area already justified that many hotels, they\u2019d already exist. It\u2019s a matter of basic economics, and an influx of 40 more hotels could eventually result in 40 of them going out of business.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the biggest challenge for the cities that have stadiums good enough to host a Super Bowl. Everything else needs to be in place to absorb the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland has never been to a Super Bowl. A Super Bowl could possibly come to Cleveland. At Thursday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-616833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}