Super Bowl XLVIII will take place in New York/New Jersey and well we’re currently having a ton of snow and some serious wind chill. While many people oppose to cold weather Super Bowl’s, this year’s location have other cold weather cities ready to place their bid.
via ProFootballTalk:
It took the league nearly a half-century to realize the power of expanding the universe of potential Super Bowl destinations to include major cities that could experience major snowstorms on the day of the game. With more cities in the mix to host the game, more bids will be submitted. With more bids, the competition increases. As the competition increases, the quality of the bids does, too.
In the end, the NFL and its teams will make a lot more money.
“Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore are all asking, ‘Is this something we can do?‘”Packers president Mark Murphy recently said, via Mark Maske of the Washington Post. “You’d be amazed how many fans and how many [Packers] shareholders here have asked the same thing.”
While I’m happy to have the Super Bowl here I can understand the outrage. The Super Bowl in addition to the game is all about the performance, parties and other events that take place. Cold weather affects all those things. As for the game, players play in snow all the time, as long as it’s not a significant blizzard then it’s business as usual. As for other cold weather teams hoping to place a bid they’ll need to have a big enough stadium and surrounding areas need to have enough hotel rooms and a metropolitan type city to handle the other festivities.
