February 03, 2012

Four Nights in Indianapolis for Just $16,000: Some hotel rooms in downtown Indianapolis are going for $4,000 a night with a four-night minimum over the Super Bowl. The city has only 6,000 hotel rooms -- 14,000 less than the NFL requires within one hour's drive of the game site -- and procrastinators are paying the price. "It's insane," said Alan Banchand. "This is my 16th Super Bowl, and I've never, never, never seen prices like this."

posted by rcade to football at 08:08 AM - 8 comments

They were only going for $2,000 a night until Brady said they were nice rooms.

posted by beaverboard at 08:21 AM on February 03, 2012

Cue the annual articles about the rising price of hookers, who are travelling from all over the country to make superbowl sex money.

posted by fabulon7 at 01:36 PM on February 03, 2012

The city has only 6,000 hotel rooms -- 14,000 less than the NFL requires within one hour's drive of the game site

So with this requirement, why does the NFL select Indianapolis as the Super Bowl site? Perhaps they understand that nobody really wants to spend a night in Indianapolis if it can be avoided? Cincinnati is only about 1 1/2 hours' drive from Indianapolis (less if you drive like I do) and is a pretty nice city for a party and has a convenient airport. I'll bet the rooms there are a lot cheaper and come with at least a 4-Brady rating.

posted by Howard_T at 02:10 PM on February 03, 2012

The city has only 6,000 hookers -- 14,000 less than the NFL requires within one hour's drive of the game site -- and procrastinators are paying the price. "It's insane," said Alan Banchand. "This is my 16th Super Bowl, and I've never, never, never seen prices like this."

posted by tron7 at 02:56 PM on February 03, 2012

Yeah, were is the required "prostitution is booking" story. Seems like it's late this year. Did Eugene Robison not get his ticket?

posted by yerfatma at 04:08 PM on February 03, 2012

There's also the annual Super Bowl domestic violence story.

posted by rcade at 04:17 PM on February 03, 2012

Oooooohhh, I could totally get in the paper.

Assuming I annoy the dogs enough that they attack.

posted by yerfatma at 05:18 PM on February 03, 2012

But there might not be a Stanley Wilson incident, because if you wanted to go AWOL and make a name for yourself, where would you go? Fort Wayne?

posted by beaverboard at 05:26 PM on February 03, 2012

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