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01-29-2013, 10:29 AM | #1 | |
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But championship games in bad weather are where legends arise. Would anyone remember the 1934 championship game if it wasn't the Sneaker game? Would Bart Starr's sneak be played on NFL Network 100 times per year if it was in San Diego? Football should transcend weather. Football should be so cool that it shrugs its mesomorphic shoulders and points at a map and says, "We're playing the championship game here," whether it's in Chicago or Miami or Finland. Football should not be extending its lower lip and saying, "We only want championship games where it's warm and sunny." Cold and snowy are the womb from which Football was birthed.
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01-29-2013, 10:33 AM | #2 | |
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The Super Bowl is an event that draws THOUSANDS of people from all over the country. Letting them freeze in New York or Detroit is just stupid. All of those nostaligic scenarios you're talking about happened when championship games WEREN'T played on neutral fields. If you want Super Bowls to be played in the cold and snow, go back to having them played on somebody's home field and don't make it a 2-week all-out media extravaganza. |
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01-29-2013, 10:40 AM | #3 | |
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I recognize the marketing value of letting rich people who don't know about football sit in the stands for three quarters at $5,000 per person. But in the long term, the next generation of real fans needs their own nostalgic scenarios or their appreciation of the game will fade. The Super Bowl has been a short-term marketing game played at the expense of long-term market loyalty, and at some point it's going to be a losing proposition. But every commissioner looks at it in the short term and kicks the can down the road for the next guy to worry about.
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I want the Super Bowl to decide who the best team is, and the way you guarantee that is to play the game in a warm weather site or in a dome. I don't want extreme weather conditions to decide the Super Bowl winner. Don't get me wrong, I love watching regular season games played in blizzards (as long as I get to watch it on my HDTV), and I have no problem with playoff games being played in blizzards and ice as well. But the Super Bowl is a two-week extravaganza. Flacco is right: it's reeruned to play the game in a cold-weather city. I hope next year's Super Bowl is played in zero degree temperatures, blinding snow, and perhaps even an ice storm. It will be fun to watch from the comfort of my living room, and the NFL may just learn something from the experience. |
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Neither does Cleveland. /rimshot
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01-29-2013, 10:50 AM | #8 | |
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01-29-2013, 10:55 AM | #9 |
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In the future when I am crafting my snark-reply, could you please refrain from stealing my thunder with a factual and straightforward post?
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01-29-2013, 10:56 AM | #10 |
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Think how good those teams would be if only they could play the championships in cold weather.
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01-29-2013, 11:07 AM | #13 |
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Well now you've gone and switched sides. I agree that GB would have a big homefield advantage in Jan against someone like Tampa Bay. The reverse is not true, its not like northern players have a complete breakdown when the temperature hits the sixties range. Northern players spend half of their year in 90 degree weather too, the difference being FL players don't spend half of their year in 10 degree weather.
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