New Jersey Gets 2014 Super Bowl

[PigDogg]

It's official, the 2014 will be outdoors in New Jersey.

I like the idea of trying something different and I'll be rooting for bad weather.

[Bumpa STIKKA]

It's a bit silly to have it in a place where the weather can be unpredictable... but at least it's not in fucking London or Tokyo!

I wonder if The Saints will be in that one!

[Lefty]

So that SB could be played in extremely bad weather. I do not like the idea at all. The SB should not possibly be decided by the weather. The southern locations give one a much better chance of good weather. IMO, only time a SB should be held in the north is if it's a dome.

[kevin4252]

Actually old enough to remember when the big arguement was whether it was fair for the SB to be only played in fair weather venues, as I recall it was touch and go at the time as to whether the games should'nt be rotated around the league, I think its a good idea this game in NJ, weather always has been a factor in the NFL, ignoring that is for the fair "weather" fans, D.C. and Chicago gotta be the next cities.

Long as its never in NE that is,

[farangbah]

Dirty Jersey in the house!

Finally some good fights in the stands at the SB . . .

[kahuna]

I think it's pretty cool too..In a warm sorta way...Some of the most memorable SBs have been played in cold weather venues...

[deepthroat]

rematch: Seattle -vs- Pittsburgh.

And this time, we only have to play one team, rather than both the Pittsburgh team AND the officiating team.

[Snick]

Awesome, 2015 at Green Bay !!

[JaiDee]

This is a bad idea, weather should never affect a game like this and for sure it will, somehow.

and who wants to go to Jersey in February?? or ANY time??

as usual I will be on my sofa for this one, when some dude fumbles or throws a pick to lose the game due to a sloggy, wet, frozen field I can say "told ya so''

[guydesavoy]

Go Packers in 15  

By all means, let's play in fair weather...that way the mascara won't run

[Lefty]

NFL goes insane with Super Bowl in New Jersey



By GREG COTE
[email protected]

May 25, 2010. Late afternoon. Irving, Texas.

Let us record that this was when the NFL went certifiably insane.

This was when America's favorite sport made a decision suggesting the league was suffering the effects of some sort of corporate concussion.

I mean, really!? You're going to play a Super Bowl in the bitter cold with a probability of snow by choice!?

Welcome to East Rutherford, N.J., site of the 2014 Super Brrrr.

I can't come up with a decent reason to want to be in East Rutherford under any circumstances -- particularly with its unfortunate proximity to Jets fans -- but the least of those circumstances would be in early February, when temperatures drop into the 20s and the wind bites and sleety, gray banks of sludge (far too ugly to be called snow) are likely to entomb the stadium.

The NFL, in Tuesday awarding Super Bowl XLVIII to the New Meadowlands Stadium, has for the first time bestowed its signature game to an open-air stadium in a harsh-winter city.

Competing bids from Miami and Tampa were denied. Yeah, why play the biggest of all games in fair weather? Makes too much sense.

The league should be arrested for prostitution, because, in effect, the NFL has broken its own rules on mild-climate Super Bowls to reward the Jets and Giants for building a $1.6 billion stadium.

To the highest builder go the spoils!

Commissioner Roger Goodell calls this a one-time-only exception to that philosophy, but it's tough putting the smoke back in the cigar.

The precedent is set. Washington already is clamoring to host. Philadelphia is raising its hand.

THE SEAL HAS BEEN BROKEN

What has happened is, the seal is broken. The sane old days when Super Bowls were played in fair-weather cities such as Miami and New Orleans -- those are quaint old days now. The map has opened wide.

Tuesday means mild weather no longer is the overriding, prerequisite here.

That's too bad.

The winning Jersey bid, and the NFL in buying it, romanticizes the idea of macho football played in winter, plumes of cold breath billowing through facemasks.

Sure enough, who among us doesn't count Lambeau Field and its ``frozen tundra'' among our early, fond snapshots?

Here's the thing, though. When watching those Packers home games in deep winter, here was my prevailing thought while staring at my TV: Good Lord, I'm glad I'm not there!

The NFL, with this open-air Jersey Super Bowl, has hijacked our de facto National Holiday and sold it to the most bitter of surroundings.

The likely weather scenario will portend a miserable Super Bowl Week for those brave visitors who don't say to hell with it and stay home, and also a miserable week for participating teams that would rather have the reward of awakening in Miami in sandals and short sleeves, not awakening in East Rutherford dressed as if elk hunting in Alaska.

NO WARDROBE PROBLEMS

Good luck booking a halftime act in 2014, by the way. The good news? No threat of wardrobe malfunction, because under that layer of clothing will be more layers of clothing.

They played a Super Bowl in Pontiac, Mich., following the 1981 season. They played the game in Minneapolis after the 1991 season. (I remember pinwheeling my arms to keep from pratfalling on icy streets.) They put the game back in Detroit, defying logic, following the 2005 season.

Significantly, though, each of those games was played in a dome. Same with the 2012 game set for Indianapolis.

Meaning the buildup was miserable for fans, but at least the game itself was not held hostage by the elements.

Those will have been the only four of 48 Super Bowls played in harsh-winter cities before the just-awarded '14 game, which will set a Super Bowl record for low temperatures and possibly be the first Super Bowl beset by snow.

Yeah, some of the playoff games leading up to the Super Bowl are held in wintry conditions, but those are home-field advantage situations.

Super Bowls are designed to be neutral-site games in mild climates -- played in conditions that allow the skills of the teams to dictate the result more than the whim of the weather.

That will stop being the case for the first time in 2014, because the NFL on Tuesday decided that rewarding a couple of owners for seeing a new stadium built was more important than allowing its two best teams to play its biggest game under optimum conditions.

To hell with common sense, this decision said. To hell with football fans.

It was a cold day for the NFL. Very, very.
The Miami Herald

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010....5PIeGql

[Lefty]

(kahuna @ May 26 2010,13:13) I think it's pretty cool too..In a warm sorta way...Some of the most memorable SBs have been played in cold weather venues...

There have only been 3 Super Bowls so far played in cold weather cities, and they were all in domes.

[Lefty]

Would it be ironic if the two teams that end up in this Super Bowl are Arizona and Miami?

[Jake_Sully]

(JaiDee @ May 26 2010,12:24) This is a bad idea, weather should never affect a game like this and for sure it will, somehow.

  and who wants to go to Jersey in February??  or ANY time??

as usual I will be on my sofa for this one, when some dude fumbles or throws a pick to lose the game due to a sloggy, wet, frozen field I can say "told ya so''

I disagree with you and I'll tell you why.. 2001.. The Pats had a relatively unknown QB by the name of Tom Brady vs the Raiders in the snow game and he rushed in for a TD. I'll never forget that game because of the snow. It could have been just another mindless score.. hell I even forgot the Pittsburgh just before the half defensive TD but I'll never forget the snow one and the immaculate incompletion.

See if you remember, watch from 8:30



The beauty of the weather is...

IT EFFECTS BOTH TEAMS!

P.S. I hate bill TapeCheck but tom brady is one of the best QB's I've ever seen.

[TEXASMAC]

New Jersay makes Pattya look clean.