In 2005, the population of jacksonville, florida, was fewer than 800,000 people. But come the week of the super bowl, an extra 100,000 people flooded into that city. That is a huge expansion in the number of people who are ever in jacksonville. When it came to the need to house all those people, it quickly became apparent that jacksonville didnt have nearly enough hotel rooms to go around, which should have been kind of a limiting factor for whether they were even in contention to get the super bowl at all, right . You cant house anybody whos coming to see the super bowl, then you cant host the super bowl. But despite their dearth of hotel rooms, jacksonville really, really wanted to host the super bowl that year. So in order to address the housing concerns, jacksonville got creative. The stadium sit as long the st. Johns river and because jacksonville is the smallest city to ever host the big game, theyve made up for a lack of hotel rooms with five cruise ships. Need a bed . In town t
When it came to the need to house all those people, it quickly became apparent that jacksonville didnt have nearly enough hotel rooms to go around. Which should have been kind of a limiting factor for whether they were even in contention to get the super bowl at all, right . You cant house anybody who is coming to see the super bowl, then you cant host the super bowl. But, despite their dearth of hotel rooms, jacksonville really, really wanted to host the super bowl that year. And so, in order to address the housing concerns, jacksonville got creative. The stadium sits along the st. Johns river, and because jacksonville is the smallest city to ever host the big game, they have made up for a lack of hotel rooms with five cruise ships. Need a bed in town to watch the super bowl . Head on down to the docks. Weve got five, jumbosized cruise ships for you there. Thats what thousands of people ended up doing for housing during the super bowl in 2005. They rented rooms on cruise ships that we
When it came to the need to house all of those people, it quickly became apparent that jacksonville didnt have nearly enough hotel rooms to go around. Which should have been kind of a limiting factor for whether they were even in contention to get the super bowl at all, right . You cant house anybody whos coming to see the super bowl . Then you cant host the super bowl. But despite their dearth of hotel rooms, jacksonville really, really wanted to host the super bowl that year, so in order to address the housing concerns, jacksonville got creative. The stadium sits along the st. Johns river and because jacksonville is the smallest city to ever host the big game, theyve made up for a lack of hotel rooms with five cruise ships. Need a bed . Intown to watch the super bowl . Head on down to the docks. We have five jumbosized cries ships for you there. Thats what thousands of people ended up doing for housing during the super bowl in 2005, they rented rooms and cruise ships that were docked
By Austin Ruse - I went to a drag show and found that dragsters are laughably untalented, and the crowd for this kind of thing is mostly older, angry, lefty ladies.