Although discussed elsewhere in months past, this deserves to be in a different thread... might want to bookmark because the concept of Green Bay hosting the Super Bowl has and will keep coming up, and we really need some hard stats on this to put it to bed for good.
Our northerly neighbors to the west are putting in a bid for the 2018 Super Bowl at the Hubert H Humphrey MetroStadium in 2018. The bid calls for 19,000 high-quality, full-service rooms within 60 minutes of the stadium, including approximately 900 at a headquarters hotel in order to meet the NFL's requirements.
So let's look at how this would work out in Eastern Wisconsin:
The greater Green Bay area (incl. Ashwaubie, De Pere, Alloowaaaay, etc.) has a total of 4,300 hotel rooms, of which only several hundred are full service.
The Fox Cities have just over 2,800 hotel rooms, again, only several hundred of which are full service (notice a trend, here).
Door County has about 1,500 guest rooms, most in properties less than 50 total units.
If you could get the NFL to extend the 60 minute limit to 70 minutes, you could include Kohler/Sheboygan & Fondy's 3,000 or so hotel rooms.
Assuming you could bring in some contract guest services & food service so as to transform all the Candlewood, Hampton, and Motel 6s into full-service hotels for a couple weeks, you're still about 7,000 rooms short. But even if you could add some temporary housing (and pray for add'l development), you're still lacking a hotel of the requisite size for the NFL's HQ during Super Bowl week. The largest hotel in Green Bay and the Fox Cities is under 400 rooms. In fact, the only place in Wisconsin where you can get a 900+ room hotel is in Wisconsin Dells (Wilderness, ~1,100 rooms/condos). In fact, the Hilton in d/t Milwaukee only checks in at 730 rooms.
But Benny, what about cruise ships? That's what they did in Jacksonville.
I admire your persistence, not to mention your grasp of trivial sports history. The largest cruise ships in the world are Royal Caribbean's Oasis and Allure (of the Seas), each with just over 2,700 staterooms; so add in one of RC's Freedom, Liberty or Independence ships (each about 1,800 staterooms), and you've got the 7,000 additional rooms needed, right? Well, even if you could pluck three of the world's largest cruise ships out of the Caribbean for a month during peak season, there's one minor problem... these cruise ships are all in excess of 1,100 feet, and the longest ships that can go through the locks of the St Lawrence Seaway are 740 feet. So the Super Bowl Shuffleboard Tourney and Captain's Brunch ain't going to happen, Commodore.
The bottom line is that Wisconsin simply does not and never will have the infrastructure in place to meet the NFL's demands. This leaves two options:
1) Make the Super Bowl about a football game and get the NFL to bend on their host city requirements (who needs the pageantry any way, right) or
2) Build a high-speed train from Wisconsin Dells to Green Bay, because we all know how much the state of Wisconsin loves high-speed trains.
Moral of Story: The Super Bowl is not good enough to be played on the sacred grounds of Lambeau Field.
