Superbowl going to New York

[GregMO ROberts]

The National Football League has kept its word when it told teams building new stadiums they might get a Super Bowl. In an unbelievable development, the league has voted to locate the 2014 game in the new arena replacing Giants Stadium in New Jersey. While it'll be nice to see the tourist traffic directed to the metropolitan area, the idea of walking outside in February here, much less sitting through an outdoor football game, is daunting to all but hardened football fans. Fox will broadcast the game.

This is a dumb idea. Having the weather a factor is not appealing for the big game.

[psychobillyjekyll]

I call bullshit. Having weather as a factor is extremely appealing for the big game. That way you see who's the best team when facing adverse weather conditions.

[GregMO ROberts]

No thanks. I don't want to see no frigid fans in the stands. I don't want to see the snow cleared away revealing only a few yard lines. I don't want a play to not be reversed because the camera's couldn't pick up everything proper due to the snow. I don't want to see Bruce Springsteen freezing at half time.

There is a reason why they have never played it north (well, Detroit, but indoors). I want to sit in my cold basement and see somewhere I would rather be.

[psychobillyjekyll]

Hell I wish Lord Stanley's matches were played like the winter classic. I wish more sports would man up and face mother nature.

[brainchomper]

No thanks. I don't want to see no frigid fans in the stands. I don't want to see the snow cleared away revealing only a few yard lines. I don't want a play to not be reversed because the camera's couldn't pick up everything proper due to the snow. I don't want to see Bruce Springsteen freezing at half time.

There is a reason why they have never played it north (well, Detroit, but indoors). I want to sit in my cold basement and see somewhere I would rather be.

I gotta say, I agree with Psycho on this. As a New Englander...I love watching games in the snow, mud and rain. It's part of the game, I'm always a little bummed that it's never a factor in the super Bowl. It kind of sucks when field goal kickers can kick a ball 10 more yards because they're in a dome. Kind of takes some suspense out of it.

[Detective Somerset]

Having the Super Bowl without the elements punishes teams that are built to win in inclement weather. As with most things this is simply about money. Unless a cold weather city gets a new stadium, it will not host a SB. Tourists and corporate types do not want to put down their shekels to go to GB, Pitt, KC, or NE in late Jan. or early Feb. The only way they will have to do so is if the league mandates it by rewarding a municipality that taxes their citizens in order to construct a new stadium.

At least I am not bitter about this.

[Detective Somerset]

Just to clarify: I did intend to sound anti-semitic with the use of the term shekels, I was merely looking a synonym for money. In addition, I am apolitical and realize that taxation is necessary for ongoing government services, I just get frustrated with NFL owners using cities against each other to get new stadiums built.

[DEADstar]

I think its pretty cool. To me playing outside in the cold, rain, snow or whatever that's real football.

[brainchomper]

Agreed. I think the nation would get a kick out of seeing a snow covered field during the Super Bowl. Our most classic football moments in new England came during the snow games.

[GregMO ROberts]

I want to see the best game possible. Not one where they have to resort to a running game because of the weather conditions. The idea sucks ass. My ass!

[crikan]

I like watching a good running game. Some of the greatest games took place in snow. Remember the "Tuck Rule" (Oakland at New England)? I'd rather have snow than rain and I'd rather have outdoors than a dome. I don't want every Super Bowl to have 50+ points scored.