[EricH]

Originally Posted by Moon2020

Limited options: L.A., Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Minneapolis, Denver, Miami, NY, NJ, Philly, Pittsburg, Kansas City, Arizona, Dallas, Boston, Las Vegas, Baltimore?

L.A. is out, much as I'd like to have the Championship here. Staples Center (the primary venue that would have any reasonable shot) isn't big enough, even with the convention center next door. Any football stadium project, as I understand it, is contingent on actually getting an NFL team, and that doesn't look like happening any time soon (though if it did, I could see CMP coming to Los Angeles; I remember something about the folks who were wanting to build it wanting to put it next to Staples Center/the Convention Center). Anaheim, next on the list in this area, would be out due to no stadium next to their convention center, I'd think. Long Beach (home of the Los Angeles Regional) has a convention center attached to a stadium, but suffers from the same problem as Staples: It's a basketball/hockey arena, not a football stadium.

Houston might have a shot, if they didn't stick us in the Reliant/Astrodome again.

Indianapolis has been mentioned as having a football stadium and convention center next door to each other.