A New York Superbowl

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TrueOrange

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So New york / New Jersey won the bid for the 2014 super bowl

Hope everyone likes snow games
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Heebs said:
3 of the last 5 years its been 50+ deg on Super Bowl Sunday
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the high or the low?, cause the thing i saw seemed to suggest that night time weather there (at that time of year) seems to be in the 40s at best, but most times in the 30s
 
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TrueOrange said:
the high or the low?, cause the thing i saw seemed to suggest that night time weather there (at that time of year) seems to be in the 40s at best, but most times in the 30s
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Overnight will be cooler, not that it matters to me....I kinda hope its around 4 and they cancel the pregame and halftime 'entertainment'.
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If heaven ain't a lot like Dixie...I don't want to go...popped into my head for some reason.

My guess it will only happen once, especially if a Nor'easter blows in and shuts down JFK and LaGuardia on Superbowl weekend.
 
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Mark me down for $50 on the under, the wind off the swamps of North Jersey are brutal in February. The real question is, who is sitting next to Snookie?
 
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When I first heard about this, I wondered if they were building a domed stadium there that I didn't know about.

An outside Superbowl in NY/NJ in Feb is insane.
 
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have you guys forgotten what the weather was like in Atlanta the year Baltimore won the SB? It was cold with freezing precipitation all over the area. It was so bad, the NFL considered never playing another SB any further north than Jacksonville.
 
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Chalk up another vote for "bad idea." I'm fine with homefield wherever it might be throughout conference playoffs, but the SB deserves to be neutral field in a place where the only determining factor of the game is the teams on the field.
 
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MG1968 said:
have you guys forgotten what the weather was like in Atlanta the year Baltimore won the SB? It was cold with freezing precipitation all over the area. It was so bad, the NFL considered never playing another SB any further north than Jacksonville.
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Atlanta was the year the Rams won actually, Ravens was Tampa

But yeah, I was going to bring that up. The terribly bad icy weather in Atlanta pretty much sealed the deal that the city wouldn't host another Super Bowl again for quite a while.

NYC is such a big market city (and Goodell has been pushing for a New York Super Bowl since he became Commish) that they could (I worry) feasibly get it again as long as the weather isn't an absolute disaster.

course I'm of the opinion that after that absolute downpour in Miami the year the Colts won, Miami shouldn't be considered for a Super Bowl for a while either...
 
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if anything i like the idea it won't be in the same couple of cities who always get the superbowl. i won't be out in the cold watching the game so the weather factor does not bother me in the least. besides i like games with some weather adversity. it is not like both teams are not having the same weather disadvantages, and it may make for a closer smash mouth game. it is still a long ways off so who knows.
 
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I think though the worry is you either get a snow game (or snow delays the game), an ice storm, or something along the lines of the 14 degrees playoff game the pats had back in i think it was 2002 or 2003
 
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TrueOrange said:
I think though the worry is you either get a snow game (or snow delays the game), an ice storm, or something along the lines of the 14 degrees playoff game the pats had back in i think it was 2002 or 2003
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they can plow it off as it comes. i played in a blizzard once and they made it work. it was probably the greatest game i ever got to be a part of. so it might affect all of the crap at halftime, but there have been some pretty memorable championship games played in the cold that did not benefit a few select warmer cities. not to say that any superbowl is not memorable, but there is just something about both teams having to face tough weather that excites me. you never know what can happen. fans fortunate enough to be there will still show up regardless of the weather.
 
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Mike Wilbon proposed an idea that you basically put it only in the cities with the major bowl games, i.e. Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, Dallas, Phoenix and Los Angeles (assuming they can get a better stadium). I'd be fine with New York/Detroit/Seattle/Chicago etc. never getting a Super Bowl.

Yeah, I guess that's a bit of an advantage for the warm-weather teams if they can get the SB at/near their home stadium, but the crowd won't be a factor. The season ticket holders won't be the ones in the stands.
 
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milohimself said:
Mike Wilbon proposed an idea that you basically put it only in the cities with the major bowl games, i.e. Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, Dallas, Phoenix and Los Angeles (assuming they can get a better stadium). I'd be fine with New York/Detroit/Seattle/Chicago etc. never getting a Super Bowl.

Yeah, I guess that's a bit of an advantage for the warm-weather teams if they can get the SB at/near their home stadium, but the crowd won't be a factor. The season ticket holders won't be the ones in the stands.
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thats a good point. i just get sick and tired of the same cities getting all of the advantages to host the game of all games every football season. i wouldn't be upset if all pro teams had the same opportunity to host the game. like you said these same cities even get major ncaa games as well, so it just seems fair to spread the joy to other places rather than the same people getting opportunities to go constantly. sure the weather is nicer, but that should not be the sole deciding factor.
 
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Considering all these games are played in January, yes it should be. If the end of football season were in June, I'd be fine with every pro team getting a turn hosting the SB.

As it is, during these times, half the country is covered in ice. Sorry, northern cities. Get your peoples together and get plane tickets and hotel reservations.
 
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Take the Super Bowl this past year. 2 passing teams. Seeing them play in NYC in 20 degree weather would have been the most boring Superbowl ever. It's a bad idea.
 
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