Could the SEC Title Game Leave Atlanta?
Tony Barnhart painted a picture today where the SEC Championship Game could leave Atlanta in the not too distant future.
He bases it off of the AJC's report that the Atlanta Falcons' management wants to replace the Georgia Dome with an open-air stadium. If that comes to pass and the Georgia Dome is torn down, then he thinks the SEC would look for a new locale like Birmingham or the Superdome where weather would be less likely to affect the title game than in Atlanta.
I would really hate to see that come to fruition. Atlanta is a great spot for the game and having it indoors is a plus. I have a feeling that absent Atlanta, it'd end up rotating around (like the Big 12 and ACC games do) to some combination of Legion Field, the Superdome, and the NFL stadiums in Florida. The complaining would have no end in that scenario.
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Legion Field. Really.
Really? Birmingham. Really?
Legion Field is terrible.
I heard toilets were overflowing during the PapaJohns.com Bowl this year.
I also don’t agree with the idea that the Georgia Dome will be torn down any time soon. The average lifespan for a sports facility is 30 years.The city of Atlanta is not going to pony up the dough for a new football stadium in this economy when it already has a perfectly good one. And Arthur Blank definitely isn’t going foot the bill himself. The earliest we’d have to worry about this type of scenario is 2020. And that’s the earliest.
Barnhart is really reaching here.
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by The Feathered Warrior on May 20, 2010 10:03 AM EDT reply actions
NO NO NO NO NO!
open air or not, the SEC championship will not leave the ATL. But if we do I think the superdome is the stupidest choice in the south
...in dixie land i'll take my stand to root for Atlanta
Really?
Please state your reasons for why the superdome is the “stupidest” choice in the South for the SECCG. I’d like to hear this.
too much rotten drunks that'll ruin the stadium
on second thought let them ruin it maybe it’ll help my cause to see New Orleans(saints) to fall back to the watery grave of which they came
...in dixie land i'll take my stand to root for Atlanta
It's too "many" rotten drunks, being in that you can quantify "drunks", and
seriously, you’re a college football fan. You should have plenty of exposure to hoardes of rotten drunks by now.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on May 21, 2010 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I've only been to 3 football games 2 of them with a friend who invited me
the 2: Auburn vs Kentucky in ’04, and Auburn against tulane in ’05
the other one: App. State vs Delaware in the FCS national championship
...in dixie land i'll take my stand to root for Atlanta
The upper decks of Legion Field have been condemned.
Birmingham would have to do major renovations or build their new dome for the game to move across state lines to the west.
I think an SEC Championship game in New Orleans would be awesome. Nashville as well.
by ColRebsLastBreath on May 20, 2010 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
The rickety old upper deck was removed in 2005 because Alabama canceled its future games in Birmingham in 2004 and UAB didn’t need the seating.
I do like Nashville, but it would be even colder than Atlanta. New Orleans would be great, but because it’s not a central-ish location, I don’t think it’d get the game permanently. I love the Bucs’ stadium in Tampa, but conference politics being what they are, I doubt the game would ever be held there.
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New Orleans is a city of drunks and that's why I say no to that dump,
plus it’s to much home advantage for Loser State University(LSU). Now don’t say that Atlanta is home field advantage for Georgia, because it isn’t, it’s Georgia Tech’s home field advantage. Nashville would be great however and maybe Miami.
...in dixie land i'll take my stand to root for Atlanta
The Dome isn't a home field advantag for UGA?
Riiiiiiiight…
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by The Feathered Warrior on May 20, 2010 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Watch it.
New Orleans is America’s greatest cultural treasure. I’m not even kidding here.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on May 21, 2010 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Birmingham has done a shitty job of maintaining...
…Legion Field and it’s environs. I doubt it would ever end up there. It is a shame, so much history in that stadium. If they do build the dome they have been yapping about for over a decade, then maybe B’ham gets the game.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
Never end up in Birmingham...
….as much as I hate to say it, my hometown is too backwards ass stupid to ever do anything to get the SECCG back. They’ve let Legion Field and the surrounding area rot and any talk of “building the dome” is a complete and total joke. The city and county have raised taxes and pulled all kinds of other shenanigans in the name of THE DOME for decades and some crappy artist’s renderings are the only results.
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if they can move the college football hall of fame from south bend indiana(it might not have happened yet)
they just might move the sec title game. what is funny is the college football hall of fame is supposed to move to atlanta.
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