CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell didn't come out and say Charlotte couldn't one day host a Super Bowl at Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers.

But he seemingly made it clear after listening to presentations for the 2019, '20 and '12 Super Bowls that the city isn't ready to host.

"One of the things that comes through very clear in the presentations is that the Super Bowl needs to grow," Goodell said Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings in Charlotte. "It's an extraordinary event that just takes a very large city with a lot of hotel rooms and a lot of facilities, airports that can handle the traffic with people coming in and out.

"Well over 100,000 people come to the Super Bowl, and that continues to grow. So I think infrastructure is probably the most significant issue."

Charlotte’s population continues to skyrocket, which the U.S. Census Bureau confirmed in a report last week. You can find a new apartment or condominium complex being built at almost every turn.

But the city is well below the 20,000 luxury hotel rooms the NFL requires for a host city.

Goodell admitted that BOA is a "great stadium," and it will be even greater after more than $87 million in renovations are completed over the next couple of years.

He said the stadium is important, which is evident by Atlanta being awarded the Super Bowl in 2019 in new Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The NFL likes to reward cities that build new facilities.

What Goodell didn't mention was the weather. The NFL requires a "climate-controlled dome stadium" if the average temperature for the region falls below 50 degrees.

The average February temperature in Charlotte is 55 degrees. The temperature here on Super Bowl Sunday this year when Carolina lost to Denver was 51 degrees.

There were three days during Super Bowl week this year when the temperature in Charlotte was between 62 and 71 degrees.

But BOA is an outdoor stadium, so if the weather goes south as did with an ice storm when Atlanta hosted the event after the 1999 season, there is no dome to provide comfort for the fans.

The earliest Charlotte could bid on a Super Bowl would be 2022 after Atlanta, South Florida and Los Angeles were awarded the 2019, '20 and '21 events. Carolina president Danny Morrison told ESPN.com in March that neither the team nor the city was at the point of making such a bid.

Listening to Goodell talk about the presentations on how cities could make the "Super Bowl bigger and better," you wonder if the city ever will be ready.

"It's going to be hard for some communities to keep up with that," he said.