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Even The Pittsburgh Steelers Can't Get a Room For Sunday's Game
Things are tough all over! Some hotels and travel apps are whining about our reports that their Hurricane Sandy fees aren't unfair at all, and now it looks like the Pittsburgh Steelers are in trouble! They'll have to march right back home after their game against the New York Giants at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. scheduled for 4:25pm on Sunday.
Why? There’s simply no room at the inn. Any inn,(not even the no-tell motels?), to take on the 53-man football team.
The Steelers' regular hotel in Jersey City is without power for their booking tomorrow night and they can't find alternate lodging. This will force the team to fly the great distance to Newark (an hour) on the day of the game (the NFL requires visiting teams to arrive at least one day before kickoff) and return to Pittsburgh that same day. But again, take note of the game time: 4:25 p.m. So, we’re not talking a break-of-dawn flight, here, buddies. Perspective!
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Jenn Brown Tells Potty Jokes...From A Hotel Bathroom
Apparently, we aren't the only ones who enjoy spending inordinate amounts of time inside hotel bathrooms. According to Bleacher Report, ESPN reporter Jenn Brown began a hilarious Tweeting storm last Wednesday when she realized she had locked herself in the bathroom of her hotel room. Hey, it happens to the best of us!
Jenn, who goes by @JennBrownESPN on Twitter, began by announcing: "Another first today, got locked inside my hotel room's bathroom bc handle's stuck. Called front desk from cell phone & now waiting on help!" But as the help took a longer and longer to arrive, Jenn began randomly tweeting back to her followers, answering questions about everything from the bathroom's toiletries to the general purpose of bathroom doors. See below for the exchange.
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This Fantasy Football 'Widow Package' Disappoints, So Here's Our Version
The Ames in Boston is actually a great place to watch sports--you can watch games from the shower!
Ah, pre-season football is here! And with it, the start of the hotel football packages.
But one in particular caught our eye, mostly because it is so bizarre. The La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa, just outside of Houston, is offering a Fantasy Football Widows Package, for "loved ones who slowly become widows to the digital fantasy roster that consumes a football fan’s every thought through the very last day of the NFL season."
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Are You Ready for Some Football...Packages from Expedia?
It's a dream of ours to hit the road and go to NFL games all around the country--hell, we'd even go and see the Browns play the Bills. In December. So we love that Expedia helps football fans save money on last-minute trips to see their teams.
If we hadn't just returned from Miami, we'd totally be Jett-ing down there this Sunday for New York's game against the Dolphins. Who doesn't want to be there to see if Rex Ryan flips off Dolphins fans all over again?
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Book a Kimpton Emerald Bowl Package and Feel Free to Curse, Boo This Weekend
For many, Christmas weekend will be a time of screaming matches, heckling, and cursing under one's breath. These forms of anti-cheer have nothing to do with Aunt Mable's fruitcake or Uncle Tim's drunken dinner table insults, but football, everyone's favorite helmet colliding sport of the season.
Fans are hightailing it to San Francisco en masse to catch the Emerald Bowl on December 26, where USC and Boston College will go at it just 24 short hours after tinsel and wrapping have been cleared away. Finding a place to stay over the holidays, especially in a choice destination like San Francisco, is no easy feat, but several Kimpton properties in the city are offering convenient Emerald Bowl packages. Overnight tailgating in frigid weather is no fun, don'tcha know.
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Cincinnati Bearcats Can't Blame Loss on The Fontainebleau or Diddy
Well, the Cincinnati Bearcats lost yesterday's Orange Bowl to Virginia Tech — and they officially cannot blame the loss on P. Diddy or anything else that could have been distracting players at the shiny and newly-renovated Fontainebleau Miami...at which the team did not stay before the game.
The New York Times' Pete Thamel reports that while the team was scheduled to stay over at the resort, there a little bit of a pre-bowl scramble to switch hotels after coaches realized exactly how glitzy and potentially-distracting the place was:
I noticed a large contingent of Cincinnati Bearcat players were waiting outside [the Fontainebleau]. That wasn’t the only thing I noticed, as the swanky digs were filled with scantily clad women returning form the pool, loud conversations in all sorts of foreign languages and just a wild medley of people.
But it was moving day for the Bearcats because Coach Brian Kelly knew that his desire for New Year’s peace and quiet wouldn’t likely happen. Diddy, the star rapper whose fame transcends his many name changes, was hosting a New Year’s party at the Fountainbleau.
We're not hating, but we're just saying: all of this pre-game scrambling could have been prevented if someone had just read a bit of HC before checking the team into one of the most hyped-up hotels in recent memory. Not that it would have helped anyone win an Orange Bowl, really.
[Photo: Fontainebleau Miami Beach Flickr]
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Holy Trifecta of Fall Football :: Sheraton, NCAA & TripAdvisor
NCAA football fanatics, you know who you are (and judging by your poor hygiene on game days, we know who you are too). Fall weekends mean a few key things: Beer. Those adorable mini hot dogs. Foam fingers. More beer. And Sheraton Hotels.
Uh, what? Now, we already knew Sheraton was the official hotel partner of the NCAA, but they've announced further infiltration on your team-loving. No, your mini hot dogs won't be branded with the Sheraton crest (though we wouldn't put that past them in the future!). But in addition to holding a monopoly on ad spots and billboards, Sheraton has now teamed up with TripAdvisor to present the NCAA Big Game Travel Center.
