New Orleans is the best location for the BCS championship game.

[Elwood P Dowd]

I have been to three Sugar Bowls there - Auburn/Michigan, Auburn/Syracuse, Auburn/Florida State. The weather is nice and the game is played inside. Rain, snow, wind, cold, or heat will not affect the game or the fans. Everybody loves to party in The Quarter. There is a ton of stuff to do for both the fans and the players.

The best reason though is the location for the fans. Most of the fans for the two schools can stay within walking distance of the Superdome. I walked to the game two of the three times I was there. When you go to Phoenix, LA, or Miami, everything is too spread out. Fans often stay several miles from the venue. In NOLA, they're all right there in an area near the stadium.

Some will say the SEC has a huge advantage. What about when USC plays in the Rose Bowl, a few miles from their campus? They lost to Texas there in 2005, so it didn't seem to matter. The three Sugar Bowls I attended, Auburn beat Michigan by two points, tied Syracuse 16-16, and lost to FSU by six points. A wash! Anyway, the SEC is not in the BCS game every year. I'm sure Bosshog will agree.

[Jack from Charlotte]

1. I agree. New Orleans is great.........

Mostly because you park your car and don't need it until you leave. All activities are in walking distance. You are constantly mixing it up with fans of both teams.

It's truly great.

[BOSSHOG]

2. And the best location for the Super Bowl EVERY YEAR for the same reasons

NO town can host with gusto and bravado and naked titties like NOLA can. Park your car for the duration and let the good times roll. Sometime, maybe 2058 the Saints might make the Super Bowl but by then they'll be playing in Los Angeles.

[LisaM]

4. What if some of us don't want to see titties?

What's there for us? What do we get out of it? What if we want to see some big strong lumberjack types?

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Go over to Southern Mississippi.

Plenty of pine trees and lumberjacks over there. Just a one-hour drive.

[Jack from Charlotte]

7. There's plenty of things to do in NO....

Jazz clubs, fine dinning, river boat tours, Antebellum home tours, the architecture of NO tours....

It's a great place. Or it was great before that AWOL-moron failed to act after Katrina.

[madinmaryland]

8. Phoenix and NOLA are perfect places, because there aren't any teams

that would ever have a home-field advantage at those sites!

:hide:

[BOSSHOG]

9. I agree teammate

Have the Cowboys build (another) stadium over a voodoo graveyard and see how many super bowls they'd win. I find the Saints charming, kinda like the cute little pet dog, but I have never understood the Cardinals lack of success.

[madinmaryland]

10. The Bidwell's. They've never had any success in 50 years.

Sort of like the old St. Louis Browns of baseball, who are now the Orioles. Thanks to Peter Angelos who has made them perpetual losers. :grr:

[BOSSHOG]

11. I really enjoyed

going to old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore when I lived in Phillie. The Orioles were my (still are) American League team. Memorial stadium and I were both built in 54. I've been to their "new" stadium. Nice job fitting Babe Ruth into the work.

[madinmaryland]

12. I really like their new stadium. I've been to four or five games in the last

four years. For us it's only a 15 minute ride into Balmer. I hadn't been to a game since the mid 70's. Let's just say Riverfront and Three Rivers Stadiums were not architectural marvels! (concrete, seats, and astroturf!)

[BOSSHOG]

13. Ashtrays

thats the best description I heard of Riverfront, 3-Rivers and the Vet. The New Orleans Zephyrs (owned by the Mets I think) have a great ballpark in Metairie out by the airport. Minor League Ball is a total joy to experience. Everynight there is something crazy going on and they have a Nutria couple as their mascots (Boudreaux and Clotile.) They even got married during a ballgame.

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. Atlanta Fulton County and DC's RFK were also cookie-cutter non-marvels.

At least RFK had decent grass and would get loud during Redskin games. Fulton County was bad for baseball and terrible for football.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Hey Elwood, I take it you are an Auburn kinda Tiger?

One of my best friends in the Navy was an Auburn Grad (Class of 75 I think.)

Arkansas at Auburn Basketball tonight (10 Jan) ESPN2 8:00 central.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. Arkansas will kill us in basketball.

Due to rash of injuries, we only have 6 players on scholarship. A small forward will be playing center, and guards will be playing forward. We haven't been worth a crap in basketball for the last 5 years. I did enjoy the days back when Barkley was playing. He was funny as hell. Weighed about 280 back then.

I went to Auburn in the 60s.

[KamaAina]

15. It is also the best location for the Super Bowl.

a fact apparently lost on the luxury-skybox-obsessed NFL. :eyes:

edit: and with the Super Bowl, there is absolutely NO chance of any home field advantage! :P