1. COA greatly botched their response to the icestorm that occurred that weekend...and they still haven't learned their lesson.

2. They've crushed any decent nightlife. People blame the Ray Lewis incident, but that was the perfect catalyst for leadership to keep undesirables (read: Blacks) out of Buckhead and turn that land over to developers on the cusp of the housing boom. Drinking hours got rolled back and clubs bulldozed. Now, Atlanta's larger clubs are outside the city in fucking strip malls...and they're just getting to work on the hole that used to be where the Buckhead establishments used to be. Not much entertainment is centralized or easily accessible and ATL sure as hell ain't walkable.

3. Traffic/ lack of decent public transportation. MARTA's woes are well documented and the people who have the means to fix it view PT as a tool of the commies and its users as indigent takers. But with everything in Atlanta being insanely spread out and its highways always extremely congested are you really going to want to drive from midtown to chamblee-tucker 25 min or more away to party during your SB weekend? What about getting around the city proper otherwise? The only thing MARTA can do with any certainty is get you to the Dome and the airport.

4. Downtown needs to be solved. Right now its a damn wasteland overrun by homeless, tired storefronts, and a few tourist trap restaurants. Underground is useless...although its clubs are the only places that can serve liquor until 4am...but still no one goes there. Peachtree Pine homeless shelter is the epicenter of it all, but there's not much of anything of any consequence south of North Avenue.

Atlanta is a great city, I'd love for a SB to be held here again. But it frustrates me how deceptive and disingenuous they've been to literally ram this stadium through.