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The National Football League has kept its word when it told teams building new stadiums they might get a Super Bowl. In an unbelievable development, the league has voted to locate the 2014 game in the new arena replacing Giants Stadium in New Jersey. While it’ll be nice to see the tourist traffic directed to the metropolitan area, the idea of walking outside in February here, much less sitting through an outdoor football game, is daunting to all but hardened football fans. Fox will broadcast the game. Bruce Springsteen, who put on a swell series of concerts to close Giants Stadium, is the no-brainer choice to play at halftime, if the Boss is up for a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.
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“Bruce Springsteen, who put on a swell series of concerts to close Giants Stadium, is the no-brainer choice to play at halftime”
Why do I have a feeling that they’ll go with Bon Jovi instead.
Because Bon Jovi has more of the football attitude than old man Bruce (Not to mention ownership experience).
Ownership experience? The guy owns an arena football team. That’s like saying, “Hey, Mickey Rourke owns a chihuahua, let him run the Westminster Dog Show.” Ya maroon.
actually that’s like saying “Hey, Mickey Rourke owns a chihuahua breeding farm, let’s him have him appear at the Westminster Dog Show.”
analogies need to be accurate to be effective.
Bad analogy bro. The AFL might be the NFL’s buck-toothed, inbred distant cousin…but they’re still family. Don’t know about Bon Jovi’s “football attitude”, but you’re analogy is lame. If you think the two leagues are that separate you clearly have no knowledge of the business of football.
An outdoor Superbowl game in the middle of winter in NJ?
What if it gets “Snowed Out”?
Football games don’t get snowed out or rained out. It’s not baseball.
I was refering what if there’s “the-mother-of-all-blizards-state-of-emergency” type weather
I can just see it now…Tampa Bay vs. Miami
Go, Bruce!
um doubt bruce will be the halftime performer , he just did it like 2 or 3 years ago
What’s wrong with you Goodell… are you taking cues from Gary Bettman (aka “the worst commissioner in all of sports”) these days?!?
Not only do NFL fans NOT want to sit in the freezing cold to watch a Super Bowl, but the stay-at-home fans get screwed too. Crappy weather — while part of the NFL game — can ruin the integrity of a game… imagine what it has the potential to do to the NFL’s biggest game.
First Class Moronic Move!
uh…it’s called MARKETING!!!
apparently you do not watch football….football fans will go to a regular season game in subzero temps, and now the super bowl is going to be in a cold weather city….this might be the most successful Super Bowl in recent years
actual NFL fans, not folks like you who only go to Super Bowl parties and don’t even watch the games, have been wanting the Super Bowl in a cold weather city FOR YEARS….if anything this move will squeeze out the celebs (who go just to be seen) and get actual NFL fans back in Super Bowl seats
the rest of you who don’t get this can go back to pretending the NFL doesn’t exist except for that one SB party you go to and drink wine coolers
The corporate hacks that buy most of the tickets to use as rewards/PR items will not be pleased with this decision. Who is going to give them a nice little contract for Super Bowl tickets in New Jersey?!?
“Not only do NFL fans NOT want to sit in the freezing cold to watch a Super Bowl … ”
Steve,
The great thing is … NFL fans don’t go to Super Bowls … only wealthy corporate types can get access to most tickets. The small percentage of tickets available to fans usually cause the average fan to mortgage their house to go to the game. I say … let ‘em freeze. Or maybe they won’t want to go and I’ll get to swoop in and see a Super Bowl in person even if it’s zero degrees, yes, the way football was meant to be played! This will be awesome.
The Superbowl is not for fans. Very few tickets are made available to the general population.
The way the game was meant to be played.
A dollar says that the main story of this game will be about Brett Favre deciding whether to retire or not.
Bruce already did the super bowl 2years ago when NBC did the game.
Unlikely that he or the NFL will do it again with him.
Bruce will be 87 years old on that cold Sunday.
Why did I think the new stadium had a closeable roof? I thought that’s why it was going to cost a billion dollars (and be shared) so they could stop the mad weather if they decided too.
Screw the people afraid of the cold. I’ve been in that stadium dozens of times in December and January. The adrenaline and liquor take care of any cold problems. I agree with FFB, this is the way the game was meant to be played.
And while Bruce would be great and Bon Jovi is likely, I think we’re all missing out on the best idea of all: Tiffany. What a comeback that’d be…
Well, well so the NFL has given the 2014 zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…uh, Super Bowl to New Jersey. I think probably that’s a zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…good thing for that region of the Unites States because in a time zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….where…sorry, all this talk about American Football keeps putting me to sleep.
FUTBOL…is the most watched and played sport in the world. Your argument against this is wrong. No matter what mouth-breather replies to my posting, the fact remains that Football is a boring sport to watch and you’re only watching it because a) it allows you all the time in the world – because of all the NON-ACTION – to stuff your fat ass, and b) you were never a true athlete in the first place and watching the disgusting over-weight morons makes you feel “just like one of them”. You can’t look at the non-stop athleticism of a futbol player and compare yourself, so you call it a pussy sport and blah blah blah. FUTBOL is GOD! Viva FUTBOL!
Hey, Ricardo, go fuck yourself. Did you ever play football? Doubtful. I like soccer, but your diatribe about football 1) was totally out of left-field and 2) makes you look like an idiot.
Another flaw in Deadline — apparently no one here is a football fan. The famous Ice Bowl is the model. Snow and ice have the capacity to make a tremendous game. A lot of the classic, unforgettable playoff games have been played in the snow. Weather is part of football. Fans at home voted heavily for NY/NJ, because of that possibility. NFL Network has run survey after survey.
Yeah, the game could possibly degenerate into a 2-0 comedy of errors, ending with a safety. But it could also be a game like Favre’s last in Lambeau, or that snow game in New England. It will be miserable for the big shots and those with lots of disposable income in the stands, and even luxury boxes. But at home, it will be nice and warm.
Some of the most classic football games have been played in rain, mud, or snow.
People will be able to bring seat warmers, etc., if the weather is too extreme.
It was only 30 years ago that the NFL got “pussified” and changed the rules so only a warm-weather city could even BID on a Super Bowl.
This is a one-time thing and the whining has just begun, clearly.
My congrats for Deadline for getting the headline correct, that NJ is getting the Super Bowl, not NY as almost every other headline states. The Meadowlands is in New Jersey, not New York. As a NJ resident I am not looking forward to this as this will be costing the taxpayers more and causing multiple frozen zones in and around the stadium. I hope that a bad snow storm arrives game day.
J-E-T-S! Jets Jets Jets!
The Saints can win anywhere. Get ready.
It’s about time. Why is everybody such a fucking pussy about cold weather? The most memorable game I ever saw was back in approx. December 1992 in the old Patriots stadium where a pre-Drew Bledsoe New England Patriots; playing with a 4th stringer who had NEVER played quarterback; almost beat the then mighty Dan Marino led Dolphins. This proved what I always knew. Despite being favored by the press every year, the Dolphins of that time would NEVER win the big one.
It was 10 degrees plus wind chill. It was fucking cold. And the only seats they had were metal benches which guaranteed that your ass would get frostbitten. But my Dad and I had a great time anyway. I was so excited to be there.
Football is played in all sorts of conditions and everyone who plays it should be used to it. That goes for the fans as well. Frankly I’m tired of seeing pictures of palm trees during Super Bowl telecasts. Let’s have shots of people in the stands shivering under blankets while the fog of their breath obscures their sight.
Let’s have it be a good game. Maybe having the game in the middle of a likely frozen swamp will draw the media away at least a tiny smidgen from obsessing over the multi-million dollar ads and maybe the players will not be as tempted to make career destroying nights on the town when the closest town is Newark.
In conclusion…fuck all you winter hating pussies! Bring it on! Just no Jets in the game though because FUCK THEM!! Go PATS!!!!
I played the game, well at least at the college level. And only morons who didn’t play the game say that this is the way the game was meant to be played. It’s the way TV decided the game should be played back when they started showing games in the fifties. That’s when seasons got expanded and went on later into the year and so on. The NFL did not invent football. Football used to be a fall game. And then when bowl games started they were always put in warm or fair weather cities. Because anyone with common sense knows that the quality of football is hurt by freezing weather and snow. I know, because I played in it. I also played in the Cotton Bowl twice and we were all thankful to be playing in good weather. “The way the game was meant to be played”? Moron!
Interesting. I played in the Big 10, in three bowl games, and I couldn’t agree with you less. You must be a wide receiver. The rest of us love the cold and the unpredictable elements. Man up.
IT IS NOW OFFICIAL, America is BRAIN DEAD!
The weather conditions in the Northeast– in NJ/NY– during the last SuperBowl Sunday, were between 4-5 ft of snow on the ground with drifts to 7 ft ( BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ) along with temps in the teens with wind chills to -1. GREAT sports weather for fans to sit through let alone drive to the Meadowlands to endure, over 15 miles from Manhattan and all those neat parties and hotels!!! MAZEL-TOV!
Huh? February 7th High 34, low 17, 1 inch of snow total the first seven days of the month. So what? Winter is like a box of chocolates, you never know etc etc.
Should be a great game and I hope it’s snowing like all get out. I’m tired of the dome games and want some real football!
For all we know, on that late-January or early-February Sunday in 2014 when Super Bowl XLVIII gets played, it could be 52 degrees Farenheit in the New York area at kickoff.
A couple ot other comments:
(1) Bruce alerady did halftime at a Super Bowl. He’ll probably be part of the pregame entertainment, with Bon Jovi at halftime.
(2) If this Super Bowl works, other outdoor venues in “cold-weather cities” (read: Green Bay, Cleveland, Buffalo) with even worse Winter weather (read: blizzards) might also get a shot at The Big Game.
(3) While recent Super Bowls have kicked-off around 6:15 P.M. Eastern time, might this one start at 4:15 or 5:15 EST to get the game in before the weather gets even colder??