70K seats may be too small.. Let's build that 150K indoor place in Crammedberry. We could attract other snoozefests, like soccer or cross-stitching. Just think of all those Babushkas working away....show some Hallmark Channel Christmas movies, or Lassie reruns.
This is one time that I agree with the Rooneys. Since they've now agreed to let northern cities host the Super Bowl, then why shouldn't Pittsburgh get the opportunity to make those millions? If da Burgh get da Bowl, they will make sure that there will be plenty of attractive things to do for those two weeks - they'll just be indoors.
Upgrades??? UPGRADES??? You can't polish a turd.
It may be a turd (my Droid turned that word into "Todd", hah) but it's our turd. May as well be polished.
LOL.....a few dominoes in there....and there is NO FREAKING ROOM IN OAKLAND.
I'll learn absolutely NOTHING from you. Pitt's not interested in your wetdr....err, dreams. Fiscally dumb...and Gallagher isn't dumb. I loathe HF, but once we razed Pitt Stadium, on-campus football is just an asterisk for Pitt football.
Exactly. Those who had to suffer going to Detroit for the recent Steelers SB were greatly bummed. The height of ridiculous to have a SB there, even with a dome. There's a reason why the Little Caesars bowl is there and not the Rose Bowl.
Well, I don't usually watch that mess, anyway. Butts in those hideous yellow seats but no $$ goes to Pitt.
Time to ask Peduto if he wants to help Pittsburgh get millions in 2023 with the Super Bowl why not include a Penn State-Pitt Graduate Mayor bring a million every other year to Pittsburgh and Pitt by negotiating a return of the PITT-PSU series with the Mayor-Steelers Super Bowl Committee Efforts too? 
The lack of hotel space in Metro Pittsburgh has proven to be a fiancial opportunity for many. The PAC just announced a 10 story hotel in Oakland and a friend of mine moved here from NJ several years ago and does nothing but design hotels.
This may be the reason why Rooney's put in for 2023, 8 years from now, as more Hotels are being built. They are building one at Robinson Center too. Pittsburgh borders on that 30,000 capacity 90 minutes from the Stadium and add seats this year. I would expect more to come as you point out!
Anyone who travels from Oakland to downtown knows how effective the bus system is. It's not a bad journey. Bus travel just gets a bad rap. Look at what it cost to build the metro out in DC further into the Virginia suburbs. The Silver Line expansion ended up costing around $3 billion to build stations and tracks in the suburbs. It would cost a fortune to build a downtown to Oakland T line. For what? To shave a couple minutes off a pretty smooth journey? No thanks.
The Rooney Tunnel cost about $600 million. The real problem is that there is basically no transit to the East, North or West. The South Hills was the first big suburban growth area, so the trolleys went there, but nothing elsewhere. Coming from Philly, I was shocked at how bad transit is, here.
I completely agree that public transportation is a problem here, but it's one of those things that won't change without billions of dollars now. We made our bed.
Even more so if they happen to be wearing Ravens, Patriots or ... dare suggest Browns garb.
Agreed. People think it's all about the actual game being in a controlled environment. While that's a factor, you don't understand just how much there is to do at a Super Bowl besides the game.
