The College Football Hall Of Fame is moving from South Bend to.....Atlanta - the heart of SEC territory. This is a spectacular idea, let me count the ways:
1) It's an ego blow to those insufferable Notre Dame honks who think the College Football world revolves around them.
2) It makes already-shitty South Bend even shittier, which is a good thing (see point #1). I've been to the HOF a couple times. I enjoyed it. However, South Bend sucks. Outside of the pristine Notre Dame campus, the city is a junk yard. And the HOF isn't even near campus. It's a couple miles away in it's stale, 1970s looking downtown. Nobody wants to visit downtown South Bend. Trust me.
3) Increased attendance. You watch - the attendance figures will skyrocket. Nobody travels to South Bend except for ND home games. That's like 8 days a year. Downtown Atlanta? They can draw fans who are in town for: Georgia Tech/Falcons/Braves games, the SEC Championship game, and other fine tourist/business stops in and around Atlanta.
4) In the South, College Football is king. It's not even close. What major cities in the US are considered "College Football Cities?" Dallas was in the running, but that's a Cowboy's town through-and-through. Atlanta, that's it. It belongs there. In the heart of the SEC.
EAT IT DOMERS!
Oh, and through this extensive research, I learned that prior to South Bend the CF-HOF was in...Cincinnati?? WTF? That seems pretty random.
1) It's an ego blow to those insufferable Notre Dame honks who think the College Football world revolves around them.
2) It makes already-shitty South Bend even shittier, which is a good thing (see point #1). I've been to the HOF a couple times. I enjoyed it. However, South Bend sucks. Outside of the pristine Notre Dame campus, the city is a junk yard. And the HOF isn't even near campus. It's a couple miles away in it's stale, 1970s looking downtown. Nobody wants to visit downtown South Bend. Trust me.
3) Increased attendance. You watch - the attendance figures will skyrocket. Nobody travels to South Bend except for ND home games. That's like 8 days a year. Downtown Atlanta? They can draw fans who are in town for: Georgia Tech/Falcons/Braves games, the SEC Championship game, and other fine tourist/business stops in and around Atlanta.
4) In the South, College Football is king. It's not even close. What major cities in the US are considered "College Football Cities?" Dallas was in the running, but that's a Cowboy's town through-and-through. Atlanta, that's it. It belongs there. In the heart of the SEC.
EAT IT DOMERS!
Oh, and through this extensive research, I learned that prior to South Bend the CF-HOF was in...Cincinnati?? WTF? That seems pretty random.
