The New York Giants and the New York Jets have submitted their combined bid to host the 2014 Super Bowl in the new Meadowlands Stadium. If it gets the approval from the league it would be the first outdoor, cold weather Super Bowl. The big game has been played in domes hosted by Detroit and Minnesota, and it will be in Indianapolis in 2012. But those games were played indoors. I'm hoping the game is played in Jersey.
Think about it. The possibility of snow, sleet, cold rain, wind, all of the above. Bring the elements into play. But what it will do is keep the fair weather fans from even thinking of going. Literally. It will be a game for the real fans. The ones who have watched the Packers at Lambeau Field in the Ice Bowl when it was -15F and in Favre's Last Stand in the NFC Championship in January 2008, when it was -4F. It will be for the fans who watched the Freezer Bowl in Cincinnati in the AFC Championship in January 1982, when the wind chill was -59F. It will be for the fans who were at the Tuck Rule Game in New England in January 2002, when snow blanketed the field.
But the one reason why I'm rooting for an outdoor Super Bowl in the New York Metropolitan Area is that very cold weather will hopefully cancel the stupid halftime show that for me just ruins the Super Bowl. I want to watch the two best teams in football, not some aged, over the hill rock band that probably doesn't know the difference between a Cover 2 and two covers on a bed. Let's get back to real football. And in January and February that means Real Cold Football.
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