At the NFL Spring meetings today in Dallas, in what was an event even more dramatic than a pick at the NFL draft, the owners have voted on the site of the 2014 Super Bowl, which will be held at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. This will be the first Super Bowl held in a cold-weather city. This is a great decision for the people New York/New Jersey area, the NFL, and the game of football.
For those of you whining about how the Super Bowl will negatively impact the game itself, please sit down. Some of the greatest games ever played were played in bad weather. The Ice Bowl, the Tuck Rule Game, and the 2007 NFC Championship games are 3 classic examples. We let playoff games be impacted all the way up to the Super Bowl, so why should the Super Bowl be any different? We let warm weather teams go to cold weather cities to play Conference Title, Divisional, and Wild Card games year after year. This is football, the players can handle it.
The league has waived its rule of having the Super Bowl in a city where the average temperature is below 50 degrees. This will not bode well for other cities in the country where the temperature is insufficient for a Super Bowl. I believe the league will not regret this decision, and will end up pocketing an enormous amount of money from this game.
The city of New York has more than enough of the resources necessary to carry out events leading up to, during, and after a Super Bowl. They have 3 major airports, and another 2 in the surrounding 30 miles. They have the necessary amount of Hotel rooms, and they have the Javits Center to hold all the necessary events the week of the game. The experience for the people who fly in will be spectacular. There is Radio City, there are museums, there are tours, there are restaurants, there are clubs, there is Central Park, there is more than enough to keep every single person occupied and entertained for at least a week.
The city handles these types of events all the time without anybody even knowing it. They hold conventions and retreats, and the United Nations even holds conferences without the city even blinking an eye. The transportation is second to none to any city in the world. Subways, buses, and taxis will be even better in 2014 than they are now.
The only thing that will be a slight problem are people going to the game itself who are not used to being exposed to those types of elements for a long period of time. Not your everyday football fan attends the Super Bowl, mostly corporate people and celebrities get into that game, only a select few fans from the teams make their way in. The Super Bowl is 4 hours minimum with commercials and concerts and all the hoopla that goes on with it. And if by chance the weather is not comfortable, the people will have to be prepared and the Stadium will have to accommodate some sort of a setting where people who are outside can get warm.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Giants and Jets both to open new stadium Opening Weekend, but WHY?
The New York Giants have been planning for nearly 5 years the construction of the new Meadowlands Stadium set to open next month. The New York Jets originally planed to build their own stadium on the West Side of Manhattan before that was thwarted by politicians. Don't even get me started on trying to build ANYTHING in the state of New York, its just a joke.
After the West Side Stadium collapse, the Jets and Giants joined forces in a 50/50 partnership in the Meadowlands Stadium. Unlike the current stadium where the Jets are tenants, the new stadium will not be named after the Giants and even the colors will be interchangeable to reflect who is playing.
So when the question came up as to who would open the new Stadium, both teams demanded that it be them. One solution that made perfect sense for everyone and would please a lot of fans would be to let the 2 teams play each other Week 1. But that was quickly thwarted by the NFL. Since the 2 teams are not scheduled to play each other until next year, the NFL would not alter the schedule to solve the dispute. No problem. We all know how complex and particular the schedule is and how far in advance its planned. So the next thing was to just award it to the Giants, after all they started the process. The Jets quickly whined about that idea. So the NFL decided it would flip a coin to see who has the first game. When the NFL conducted the coin flip without representatives from either team present, the Jets whined again saying the flip was biased.
O.K. on to solution number three, have BOTH teams open the stadium on the same weekend, which the NFL has decided it will do. The Giants will be first and open on Sunday with the Jets hosting on Monday Night Football. The Jets will open the first preseason game, not that it matters because no one shows up to them anyway.
But how we got here was sketchy to say the least, with a lot of back and forth by both the Jets and the NFL. This solution makes total sense, but oh man wouldn't it have been fun if the two faced each other Week 1 in September? Try getting a ticket to that game!
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After the West Side Stadium collapse, the Jets and Giants joined forces in a 50/50 partnership in the Meadowlands Stadium. Unlike the current stadium where the Jets are tenants, the new stadium will not be named after the Giants and even the colors will be interchangeable to reflect who is playing.
So when the question came up as to who would open the new Stadium, both teams demanded that it be them. One solution that made perfect sense for everyone and would please a lot of fans would be to let the 2 teams play each other Week 1. But that was quickly thwarted by the NFL. Since the 2 teams are not scheduled to play each other until next year, the NFL would not alter the schedule to solve the dispute. No problem. We all know how complex and particular the schedule is and how far in advance its planned. So the next thing was to just award it to the Giants, after all they started the process. The Jets quickly whined about that idea. So the NFL decided it would flip a coin to see who has the first game. When the NFL conducted the coin flip without representatives from either team present, the Jets whined again saying the flip was biased.
O.K. on to solution number three, have BOTH teams open the stadium on the same weekend, which the NFL has decided it will do. The Giants will be first and open on Sunday with the Jets hosting on Monday Night Football. The Jets will open the first preseason game, not that it matters because no one shows up to them anyway.
But how we got here was sketchy to say the least, with a lot of back and forth by both the Jets and the NFL. This solution makes total sense, but oh man wouldn't it have been fun if the two faced each other Week 1 in September? Try getting a ticket to that game!
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