Some people love cold weather football. Images of obese men wearing nothing but body paint and a tinsel wig in thirty degree weather come to mind. Freshly laid strips of sod decay into brown mud holes more remniscent of Woodstock than an arena...or as the Steelers call this, "December football."
I am not one of these people. When the superbowl of 2014 comes I will take a play from the book of Jimmy Johnson and grill out in the back yard while thousands freeze in the Meadowlands. Should New York be allowed to host an outdoor superbowl?
Advocates pointed out that thousands flock to Rockefeller center and Times Square during the frigid Christmas/New Years season. Others pointed out that playoff games go on in areas such as Green Bay through January and everyone is fine. Still another group cried that no one produces a spectacle like New York and that this game could attract even more global attention. But will the festivities be ruined if the game is compromised due to weather?
Everyone has seen games played in the Northern states suffer due to weather. Field goals can't be kicked. First down markers are covered with snow. Part of the New York (really New Jersey) proposal included an estimate on how many people could stand by with shovels to dig out the field. Snow or no snow, the likelihood of a shoot out like the last superbowl seems unlikely. Does it matter?
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