The SEC, the best FB league in America, has played its championship game in the same place, the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, every year since 1994 (it was played outdoors at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama for 2 years until a nasty rain storm ruined the game in 1993).
Sterile? Probably.
Same location? Yes.
Gone stale? Hardly.
No brainer....begin and sustain this thing at Lucas Oil Stadium.
P.S. How many years did Iowa highschool wrestling for example hold its state wrestling tournament at crappy Vet's auditorium? (You could have held in at the UNI dome, Iowa City CHA, ISU, rotated it, on and on.....)
Logically, because of its central state location, walk-up fan interest, they knew how to hold the event, and "the barn" was the mecca of wrestling...that mystical/magical place where all eyes focused upon come March. TRADITION.
I'll add these arguments for beginning and sustaining the game at Lucas Oil Stadium....build TRADITION.
First of All. I don't want to just admit the SEC is the best football conference.
Secondly, Why do we give a crap what the SEC does? I mean we are the Big Ten. We are supposed to be the leaders, not the followers! I live in SEC country. If we are going by their lead, that is like the blind leading the sighted.
Are you saying that if the SEC went to including Nashville, New Orleans and Tampa they would suffer? I don't think so.
I mean dude, you were talking about Legion Field in Birmingham. That should be enough said right there. No matter if there is rain or not.
Lucas Oil, Ford Field, Cleveland, and Soldier Field would rotate within the central region of the conference. Why give one city that economic windfall?