Neyland Stadium bowl question

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kentucky sucks

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I wonder why Neyland Stadium doesn't have a bowl game. You'd think it would considering the size and accommidations. Any reasons you folks know of that I might have missed? Has it ever been considered?
 
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It would be cool to have a bowl at neyland but theres already like 35 bowls i dont think they need more.
 
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No offense to Knoxville, but it not really a desirable place to come visit from a tourist prespective. Bowl games typically need to have a tourist attraction in order to be successful.
 
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The Smokey Mountain Bowl.....featuring Idaho State vs Texas-El Paso. I wonder if we can squeeze all them fans into the Big House? lol
 
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BJSforVols said:
No offense to Knoxville, but it not really a desirable place to come visit from a tourist prespective. Bowl games typically need to have a tourist attraction in order to be successful.
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True but I saw the "Idaho Potato Bowl" yesterday. Wonder what attractions Boise has?
 
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Sounds good to me. But We already have 2 bowls in Tennessee and thats probably about maximum considering most teams want a reward of warm weather. I would like to see a few more cold weather cities host bowls though.
 
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BJSforVols said:
No offense to Knoxville, but it not really a desirable place to come visit from a tourist prespective. Bowl games typically need to have a tourist attraction in order to be successful.
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When my wife and I were choosing a honeymoon destination, our top 3 were Shreveport, El Paso and Birmingham.
 
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kentucky sucks said:
True but I saw the "Idaho Potato Bowl" yesterday. Wonder what attractions Boise has?
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Yes, I have to watch that one because of the blue field. That was a heck of a game yesterday. Ohio just squeezed by Utah State. Maybe if we put down an orange turf? Eastern Washington has a red turf.
 
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The large stadium size isn't much of a selling point when the teams most likely playing in it are going to be 6-6 and bring 10,000 fans max.
 
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BJSforVols said:
No offense to Knoxville, but it not really a desirable place to come visit from a tourist prespective. Bowl games typically need to have a tourist attraction in order to be successful.
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Not having the ability to sell beer is a big road block too
 
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BJSforVols said:
No offense to Knoxville, but it not really a desirable place to come visit from a tourist prespective. Bowl games typically need to have a tourist attraction in order to be successful.
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Have you seen where some of these bowls are played?
 
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DeepSpringsVol said:
Sounds good to me. But We already have 2 bowls in Tennessee and thats probably about maximum considering most teams want a reward of warm weather. I would like to see a few more cold weather cities host bowls though.
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For most teams, Knoxville in December is warm weather, or at least warmer weather. On top of that, Knoxville has as much or more to offer than Boise, El Paso, Shreveport, and Birmingham.
 
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I wondered this too the other day. My guess is Gatlinburg/Smoky Mountains is too far away to be used as a selling point for the bowl. 100k seat stadium doesn't help either since even BCS games can't fill up 70,000
 
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BJSforVols said:
No offense to Knoxville, but it not really a desirable place to come visit from a tourist prespective. Bowl games typically need to have a tourist attraction in order to be successful.
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Wrong. 35 minutes from the Smoky Mountains. 14 million visitors per year, behind only Orlando and Las Vegas.
 
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therealUT said:
For most teams, Knoxville in December is warm weather, or at least warmer weather. On top of that, Knoxville has as much or more to offer than Boise, El Paso, Shreveport, and Birmingham.
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Boise: simply beautiful. Like the smokies x 1000

El paso: mexico. Cheap, cheap liquor and fun

Shreveport: gambling. Nuff said

Bham is your only point but its survived this long so theres something to it

Get off the couch and visit these places during their bowl week before making a judgement
 
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Knoxville is a great place to watch a football game. There are plenty of things to do in the area, and the venue is unmatched.

Has Neyland EVER hosted a bowl game (back in the day, maybe)?
 
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I'd love to see it happen. With that said, unless UT was playing it would never even come close to selling out. A neutral site game in Knoxville wouldn't bring out anyone.
 
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All the best bowls are played in a warmer climate. Same reason the Super Bowl is played down south ever year. Neyland Stadium might be able to get a 7-5 team if they pushed it, but the stadium would look funny half full.
 
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Knoxville is helped by being less than a day's travel by car for something like 2/3rds of the US's population.


But no beer at the game is a dagger.
 
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