TWC/AP reports: NFL Ready to Take on the Weather in Super Bowl (2 Viewers)

[Bayouman007]

just a bad idea to begin with, are they really saying they would even consider rescheduling the super bowl haha my goodness, as if people and companies would not already spend enough trying to get there during game time. This has had fail written all over it from the get go.

 

[Saint Kamara]

God I am praying for the absolute worst to happen with this game. We need this to happen so Goodell can get ousted.

 

[SaintItSweet]

The Saints fan in me wants all future Super Bowls in New Orleans.

The football fan in me wants a snowy Super Bowl because it'd be pretty cool dangit.

 

[Day1]

65 and sunny, unless the Saints are NOT there. Then I want it to be a miserable, icy fail.

 

[2009ring]

Reading the title, I thought Roger threatened to suspend God for a year if there was a blizzard....

Never gonna happen. In Roger's mind, they are one in the same.

 

[TheRealJRad]

Yeah.. never understood, Superbowl outside in N.J. in February. I hope the weather is so freakin' bad, that no one can make it to the game. See how they like playing superbowls in N.J. then

The NFL would still have their ticket and advertising money, so I wonder how much they'd care.

 

[VDK]

still a stupid idea to have a superbowl in New York.

Yes, because of the weather risk. And the weather doesn't just relate to game play, but also to fans' ability to enjoy all the associated activities, get to and from the game, and comfortably enjoying the game from their seats. It's the whole "Super Bowl experience" that the weather could upset. A very risky move by the NFL.

 

[Jeff Miller]

I think its more ridiculous you can't actually drive to the stadium on the day of the event, that you have to be bused in.

 

[blotch1]

Roger has 18,000 pieces of evidence on the Weather, and it'll do what he says, if it knows whats good.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

65 and sunny, unless the Saints are NOT there. Then I want it to be a miserable, icy fail.

I want it to be miserable, verge of cancellation bad weather. And I want the Saints to be in there and win in those elements.

 

[bclemms]

God I am praying for the absolute worst to happen with this game. We need this to happen so Goodell can get ousted.

I'm not quite sure what the worse case scenario is.

If it is record cold, heavy amounts of snow and flat out terrible weather then everyone will watch because of the Super Bowl that is being played in the snow.

The media will hate it because they didn't get a warm vacation but the controversy will be the main topic on the four letter drama station as well as the NFL network and talk radio across the country. People will be talking about the NFL into March and that means the NFL wins.

In 2011 the Super Bowl was held in Dallas were all week long temps were in the teens and the media blasted the NFL for months. Well the 2011 Super Bowl was the most watched television broadcast of all time at least until the following year when the Super Bowl broke it's own record which stood for less than a year when the 2013 Super Bowl broke the record again. So the NFL followed up one of the worst weather Super Bowl weeks with three straight record viewing numbers.

In 2005 it was held in Jacksonville and there weren't enough rooms, the stadium is displaced from the entertainment in Jacksonville which is an oxymoron to begin with. They followed that up with the best viewing numbers the NFL has seen in any 8 year stretch in history.

People want something to talk about the next day from the Super Bowl. Outside of people that live in two cities in the country, nobody really cares who wins or loses as long as they can talk about the weather, the officiating, Janet Jackson's nipple, commercials and sometimes they even talk about the game itself.

Two of the most memorable games in NFL history involve extreme cold and extreme snow. I don't even have to mention which two games they were because we all know them.


I do know what best case scenario would be. Just after Roger Goodell hands the trophy to Benson and Payton an ex-cop and raging alcoholic with a short fuse takes out a bad guy from the rafters with the help of a egomaniac ex-football player who come to terms with their lives just in time to save the day. Upon becoming the hero the ex-cop dances a jig and Roger Goodell drops dead from a heart attack after all the drama.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

I do know what best case scenario would be. Just after Roger Goodell hands the trophy to Benson and Payton an ex-cop and raging alcoholic with a short fuse takes out a bad guy from the rafters with the help of a egomaniac ex-football player who come to terms with their lives just in time to save the day. Upon becoming the hero the ex-cop dances a jig and Roger Goodell drops dead from a heart attack after all the drama.

Did you just come up with that? Or have you been thinking about it for a while?

 

[bclemms]

Did you just come up with that? Or have you been thinking about it for a while?

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[SoggyBottomBoy]

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Ahh. I see. Plagiarism.

It obviously went over my head.

 

[RazorSaint]

Also I think the comments about "playing in pristine elements as the only way to settle a championship" are pure rubbish. Football is an outdoor sport (whose outdoor feel is sometimes simulated inside). A true champion should be the one that can win under any conditions, not just ideal conditions.

Baseball is an outdoor sport too. Not sure what that has to do with anything.

Regular season games played in adverse conditions are fun to watch, but I don't think that's an appropriate way to determine a champion. On average there are maybe 3-5 games per year played in heavy snow (if that) out of a 256 game regular season, so it's not like teams are asked to do it often.

The biggest problem for me is that bad weather is the ultimate equalizer in that the inferior team has a much better chance of winning if weather impacts play.