Giants/Jets will be allowed to bid for new home to host cold-weather 2014 Superbowl

[Warner2BruceTD]

Yeah, if the current blizzard in NJ/NY this weekend dosent squash this retarded idea, then you people are hopeless. Why invite disaster?

 

[Archer]

Pretty much agree with everything Warner said in here . I'm all for a nice mix in the regular season but when it comes to the biggest game of them all they should do all they can to avoid mistakes/disasters. The NFL wants the biggest game of them all to be played at a high level and they want to make sure every fan who bought tickets can make it. A cold weather stadium only increases the chance of both going wrong

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

Yeah, if the current blizzard in NJ/NY this weekend dosent squash this retarded idea, then you people are hopeless. Why invite disaster?

it didnt snow 1 inch in northern nj

 

[TheSanchize]

it didnt snow 1 inch in northern nj

Yeah I can agree with this. I live less than 45 minutes from the Meadowlands (with no traffic) and we got less than an inch of snow.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

it didnt snow 1 inch in northern nj

Right. But it snowed 18 inches a half hour away.

You know where else it didn't snow 1 inch? Florida, souther Cal, Arizona, & all of the domes. And it never will.

 

[strahanfan92]

NFL embracing chance of snow for New York/New Jersey Super Bowl
By RONALD BLUM
Last Updated: 7:52 PM, September 27, 2011
Posted: 9:47 AM, September 27, 2011
Let it snow — but not too much.

That would make for just about perfect weather conditions for the 2014 Super Bowl being co-hosted by New York and New Jersey.

“A little snow would be great for us, but whatever comes our way, we’re going to be prepared for it,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday during the unveiling of the host committee’s blue-and-white snowflake logo for the game.

“Some of our most memorable games were played in unusual weather circumstances. Winter and cold are part of football, and snow is also,” he said.

The game at MetLife Stadium will be the first outdoor Super Bowl in a cold-weather venue. Although the lowest Super Bowl kickoff temperature has been 39 degrees, average February temperatures at East Rutherford, N.J., are 24 to 40 degrees.

“The world will be waiting for us to probably screw up on this because this is the first cold-weather Super Bowl,” New York Jets owner Woody Johnson said. “It was very courageous of our commissioner, Roger Goodell, and our fellow owners to vote yes on this — albeit on the fourth or fifth ballot.”

The logo and advertising campaigns were touted at a “power breakfast” news conference at The Modern, a restaurant in the Museum of Modern Art.

Broadcast ads, debuting Sunday, are delivered in booming baritone that proclaims: “A game so important, an event so monumental, a Super Bowl so historic it takes two states to host it.” The campaign and logos were designed by Source Communications in New Jersey.

The TV ad includes the Statue of Liberty with shoulder pads, and yard lines on a field on the George Washington Bridge, which connects the two states. The logo has an “NY” and “NJ” flanking the flake at the span’s base.

“We thought it would be both fun and direct to put the snowflake right into our major symbol,” said Al Kelly, the former American Express president hired in April as chief executive officer of the host committee.

The NFL said an additional game logo will be released a year before the game is played.

If anyone thinks ticket prices were off the charts at this year’s NFL title game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas — $600 and $1,200 — wait until this one comes to town.

“I expect our ticket prices will probably be the most expensive ticket prices of any Super Bowl that’s been held,” he said, “but I think that’s a decision that sits with the NFL, and it’s a decision that hasn’t been made yet.”

NFL owners awarded the game to the $1.6 billion venue in May 2010, just as the stadium was opening.

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[Champ]

I don't know how this is going to work. I feel bad for all those high level executives that are going to be sitting in that cold to witness the Championship.

 

[Primetime]

The Packers don't play in warm weather for 2 entire months before the playoffs other than a game at Ford Field in Detroit. Seems like a warm weather Superbowl would benefit a team used to playing in warm weather.

 

[Juggernaut]

Glad that they're actually acknowledging NJ in this. Will be interesting to see whose in the SB at that point.

 

[killgod]

hopefully an AFC/NFC East set of teams that aren't New York.