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May 25, 2010

Chris Christie Scares the NFL Into Giving NJ the Super Bowl
— Ace

The "NY/NJ region," they say, but that means the Meadowlands, which is in NJ.

Chris Christie had nothing at all to do with this but it was DrewM.'s funny idea for a headline.

In 2014.

Oh: This is strange. The Super Bowl is always played at a warm-weather city or in a domed city. I can't think of any that weren't.

I knew the Giants/Jets had a new stadium being built; based on their getting the Superbowl, I assumed it was a dome, or retractable dome.

But...

The Giants and Jets, which were part of the bid along with the New Meadowlands Stadium Co., beat out Tampa, Fla., and South Florida despite concerns about cold weatherÂ—the game is played in early February, according to the NFL's current schedule.
The three bidders each made 15-minute presentations to the 32 NFL owners at the Omni Mandalay in Irving, outside of Dallas. The South Florida delegation was eliminated in the first round of voting.
"New York and New Jersey can handle anything that comes our way in terms of logistics, transportation and security. And the weather is not an issue. The weather would make the game even more interesting and more exciting," Giants' treasurer Jonathan Tisch, who was co-chairman of the bid committee, told reporters after making a presentation. "We are supremely confident that Super Bowl 2014 would be an amazing event and would get recognition around the world."

No dome.

So they're giving up on that rule?

Maybe Chris Christie did scare them.

Answer: Allah found an article stating this was a "one-time exception" to the Warm City Or Dome Rule.

Allah speculates that if the weather is either not an issue or adds to the game, it could open up other cold-weather cities for the Super Bowl... until the game gets ruined for these reasons, at which point the rule will be reinstated and never violated again.

Personally, I think it's a bad idea. It's contrary to tradition. Cold-weather cities are just too damn brutal in February.

Posted by: Ace at 01:08 PM | Comments (61)
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1 hmmm

Posted by: elspeth at May 25, 2010 01:09 PM (AOIJi)

2 So much for relaxing by the pool with a drink before the game.

Posted by: joncelli at May 25, 2010 01:11 PM (RD7QR)

3 So, this means Seattle is eligible for a Super Bowl. Bring. It. On!

Posted by: Editor at May 25, 2010 01:12 PM (pUfK9)

4 FLYERED UP!

Posted by: kallisto at May 25, 2010 01:14 PM (+FkcS)

5 2014? By then the teams will be the Revolutionaries vs the Comrads, having beaten in the play offs, the SEIU Wildcats and the AFL-CIO Cougars.

Posted by: dagnymc at May 25, 2010 01:14 PM (2GXiu)

6
Uhhh, isn't the weather kind of inclement in the mid-atlantic during... winter?

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 25, 2010 01:15 PM (fx8sm)

7 2 So much for relaxing by the pool with a drink before the game.

Unless you're a Polar Bear.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 25, 2010 01:15 PM (c0A3e)

8 Philadelphia 2013, baby! We'll throw snowballs at the halftime act!

Posted by: joncelli at May 25, 2010 01:15 PM (RD7QR)

9 Obama couldn't get the Olympics to Chicago, but Christie got the Super Bowl to NJ.

Eat it libs! Fatso 2012!

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 25, 2010 01:16 PM (c0A3e)

10 Seems right to occassionaly have the game bond with the climate in which it's supposed to be played. Of course, snow is sufficiently rare in Paramus that it's kind of a tease....

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 25, 2010 01:16 PM (GgR+e)

11 Giants-Jets SB held in NJ would be the perfect way to piss the rest of the country off.

Posted by: The Q at May 25, 2010 01:20 PM (pfStM)

12 and the ruining of the NFL continues.

Posted by: hueydiamondpooty at May 25, 2010 01:20 PM (gpwkk)

Will then-President Christie be allowed to punt the first ball?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 25, 2010 01:20 PM (B+qrE)

dagwood, by 2014, it will be like the Star Trek episode and the teams will be the Yangs vs the Coms.

Posted by: Race Bannon at May 25, 2010 01:21 PM (uFokq)

15 Maybe now the Jets will sell enough ripoff PSL's to prevent TV blackouts with a Super Bowl to dangle. If it's a brutal winter day (like most of Feb. in NJ this year) you'll be able to buy a ticket outside for $40. Corporate pussy types ain't sitting in 20 degree weather for 4 hours.

Posted by: Pecos Bill at May 25, 2010 01:22 PM (8WOM0)

16 Will this open up other cold weather sites???

Posted by: JEA at May 25, 2010 01:22 PM (vZHAY)

17 Football should be played outside on grass no matter what the weather is like. Domes are for pussies.

Posted by: huerfano at May 25, 2010 01:23 PM (Updet)

dagwood, by 2014, it will be like the Star Trek episode and the teams will be the Yangs vs the Coms.

Posted by: Race Bannon at May 25, 2010 05:21 PM (uFokq)

Straight

Posted by: baldilocks at May 25, 2010 01:23 PM (fYmW5)

19 LOL, will there be a country left to have a Superbowl in 2014?

Posted by: Vic at May 25, 2010 01:23 PM (6taRI)

Unless you're a Polar Bear.

They will abe drown-ded by 2013.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 25, 2010 01:23 PM (B+qrE)

21 by then the name of the home team will be Los Gigantes

Posted by: exceller at May 25, 2010 01:26 PM (jx2Td)

22 20 LOL, will there be a country left to have a Superbowl in 2014?

No, but that doesn't mean the end of the Superbowl. Just that all following Superbowls will be played at Dallas Stadium.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 25, 2010 01:26 PM (c0A3e)

23 Self heating seats! The coldest I have ever been in my life, including military service, was being on the field at the MeadowLands for the Garden State Bowl in 1979.

Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at May 25, 2010 01:28 PM (6ZPfw)

24 How about Alaska in 2015?!

Posted by: Y-not at May 25, 2010 01:30 PM (Kn9r7)

25 11 Giants-Jets SB held in NJ would be the perfect way to piss the rest of the country off.

Or put us to sleep

Posted by: Y-not at May 25, 2010 01:31 PM (Kn9r7)

26 Will this open up other cold weather sites???

Only if they have sufficiently swank strip clubs for the high-rollers (this is why Indy was denied for years). NYC yes, Lambeau hell no.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 25, 2010 01:34 PM (mR7mk)

27 Christie has his own heating system.

Posted by: baldilocks at May 25, 2010 01:37 PM (fYmW5)

28 The coldest an old friend of mine has every been was when he was in the Air Force Academy and they played a football game at Soldier Field in the winter. Even the booze and wool uniforms didn't help.

Posted by: mpfs at May 25, 2010 01:38 PM (iYbLN)

3 So, this means Seattle is eligible for a Super Bowl. Bring. It. On!

No, you actually have to have a fucking football team in order to be eligible to host the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Sharkman, writing from Seattle at May 25, 2010 01:39 PM (Zj8fM)

30 I say we corner the market now and offer Chris Christie ball warmers. We will make a bundle.

Posted by: mpfs at May 25, 2010 01:40 PM (iYbLN)

31 Will then-President Christie be allowed to punt the first ball?

Yeah, he has extras. But they are too large to be regulation.

Posted by: pep at May 25, 2010 01:42 PM (0K3p3)

32 How much longer before the unions and Black and Latino grievance crowd agitators start talking about an NFL boycott because they gave the Superbowl to a state run by a "racist" governor?? 10-9-8-7....

Posted by: bound4er at May 25, 2010 01:43 PM (RjUC6)

33 I say we corner the market now and offer Chris Christie ball warmers. We will make a bundle.

Posted by: mpfs at May 25, 2010 05:40 PM (iYbLN)

Chris Christie Snuggies!

Posted by: robtr at May 25, 2010 01:47 PM (fwSHf)

34 Chris Christie Snuggies!

With I Heart Chris Christie on them.

Posted by: mpfs, Future Mrs. Chrisite at May 25, 2010 01:49 PM (iYbLN)

35 If they can play playoff games outside in January then they should be able to do the same with the Super Bowl in February. All franchises should get the same oppotunity for the Super Bowl revenue.

Posted by: davidt at May 25, 2010 01:54 PM (HtIec)

36 Cold-weather cities are just too damn brutal in February.

Posted by: Ace at 05:08 PM Really, Ace? Really? This IS American football we're talking about, isn't it? The NFL? Besides, it's New Jersey. Feb. 2 typical weather at Giants Stadium: Avg high 38 F - record 53 F Avg low 24 F - record 6 F Avg precip 0.11" Avg snow 0.40" It's nothing like Green Bay (well, not very much like it, anyway): Avg high 26 F - record 45 F Avg low 9 F - record -26 F Avg precip 0.03" Avg snow 0.40" - record 5.60"

Posted by: stuiec at May 25, 2010 02:01 PM (7AOgy)

37 Personally, I think it's a bad idea. It's contrary to tradition. Cold-weather cities are just too damn brutal in February.

It's more that cold-weather teams have too much of an advantage in February in cold-weather cities.

Posted by: FUBAR at May 25, 2010 02:02 PM (1fanL)

38 I don't know many cities that are domed. But I get what you were saying Ace...

Posted by: KRKahn at May 25, 2010 02:02 PM (DDl1v)

39 All franchises should get the same oppotunity for the Super Bowl revenue.

Even Oakland?

Posted by: Jean at May 25, 2010 02:03 PM (CPefM)

40 If the Steelers are in, won't be an issue. Pusscakes! HAHA

Posted by: marine43 at May 25, 2010 02:06 PM (DsBAA)

41 18 Football should be played outside on grass no matter what the weather is like. Domes are for pussies.

I agree. Football needs to be played outside, in the elements, no matter what those elements are.

The coldest I've ever been was also at a football game. My dad had season tickets (20th row, 30 yard line field box) for the St. Louis Cardinals (not because he was a fan of the team per say, but because he liked watching the other teams beat up Jim Hart and Neil Lomax). I went to a game with him, and the temp on the field was close to 0. I can't remember what year it was- I was maybe 12 or 13.

Going to games like that with my dad helped me to develop my love of football... that, and the tickets to the Cards/Cowboys Monday Night game for my 16th birthday! What more could a girl want for her Sweet 16? :-)

Posted by: BethW at May 25, 2010 02:06 PM (gcRbW)

42 Come on, could a cold weather game in Buffalo be any worse then a warm weather game in Jacksonville?

Posted by: Jean at May 25, 2010 02:06 PM (CPefM)

43 Coldest stadium - cheap seats at Arrowhead.

Posted by: Jean at May 25, 2010 02:10 PM (CPefM)

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

This is f'n great. Weather has always played a part in football, it's what seperates it from everything else. We play, no matter what the weather. Think of the Ice Bowl (Dallas vs. Green Bay) in Lambaeu Field. Minus 20Â° and bitter wind. So cold that facemasks were breaking. So cold that cuts didn't bleed because the wound froze closed. Or the Mud Bowl (Miami vs. the Jets) in Miami. Torrential downpours the week before softened the field and shut down the Jet's running game. The Patriots using a snowplow to clear the field for their kicker(cheating bastards) etc.

Open up all stadiums to Super Bowl competition. A Green Bay or Chicago SB would be fun as hell.

Posted by: Don Carne at May 25, 2010 02:19 PM (wSNS7)

45 Play it outside like Allah intended. They should also have the College Championship Game in a cold weather stadium outdoors as well. I'd like to see the "speed" of the SEC in Camp Randal on Jan. 6.

Posted by: Alex at May 25, 2010 02:24 PM (o0C2G)

46 bad weather games always have bigger ratings (don't know how bigger the Superbowl could get but still) Also, my dad might be able to relive his Ice Bowl experience and that's pretty cool.

Posted by: fartbubble at May 25, 2010 02:41 PM (gAmQ1)

The pussification of the Super Bowl is among America's most egregious mistakes. You know why Al Qaeda thought we would fold like a wet blanket if they knocked down the Twin Towers? Because our most important cold-weather sporting event, the biggest, shiniest piece of American culture we broadast to the world, is played either in a fucking air-conditioned bubble or in comfortable maybe-a-sweater-vest weather.

Fuck that.

The gridiron is where we celebrate courage and strength and savagery and trickery. This is a game where most of the rules are in place because there were too many deaths in the early days of the sport. This is war for sport.

We play football in the ice and snow because that's how Washington marched through Valley Forge -- and his army did it without shoes or timeouts. It's a disgrace to their memory to say we can't sit in the cold for a few hours with seatwarmers and Gore-Tex. If we can't hold the Super Bowl outdoors then civilization has already collapsed.

Posted by: TallDave at May 25, 2010 02:45 PM (+3aaV)

48 He was just interviewed on The local ESPN sport-talk show. As usual, he was fantastic. What a surprise; he presented the NFL with fleshed-out contingency plans for inclement weather. It's as if a chief executive is supposed to be able to run something, like a state, or gosh, maybe even a whole country. Too bad we don't have anything like that ion the federal level.

Posted by: NJConservative at May 25, 2010 02:59 PM (LH6ir)

49 Sometimes it can be unseasonably warm in NJ in February, or at least not uncomfortable.

Just keep Algore away from the game

Posted by: kbdabear at May 25, 2010 03:01 PM (sYxEE)

50 My immense manhood will cover the stadium and keep it warm

Posted by: Will Folks at May 25, 2010 03:02 PM (sYxEE)

51 50 He [assume it was Christie] was just interviewed on The local ESPN sport-talk show. As usual, he was fantastic. What a surprise; he presented the NFL with fleshed-out contingency plans for inclement weather. It's as if a chief executive is supposed to be able to run something, like a state, or gosh, maybe even a whole country. Too bad we don't have anything like that ion the federal level.

Posted by: NJConservative at May 25, 2010 06:59 PM (LH6ir)

C'mon Ace, update the thread!

Posted by: Soon to be Ex-ExZonie at May 25, 2010 03:02 PM (as47X)

52 They're going to give it to us in 2015, too. And in 2016. And in the year after that. And in the year after THAT. Don't fuck with me, Goodell.

Posted by: CHRIS CHRISTIE, DAMMIT at May 25, 2010 03:08 PM (Nnplv)

Football is a cold weather game, and should never be played within 1000 miles of a palm tree. Certainly not anywhere near California. Outdoors, in a raging blizzard, with steaming heads. Fans can warm themselves like all real football fans do-with alcohol and bloodlust. The only drawback is that cheerleaders have to wear parkas, but so what?

Posted by: Landru at May 25, 2010 03:54 PM (GHpB7)

54 Can we all agree the NFL is no longer a mere sport but rather a full fledged media conglomerate. They are starting to make serious cash in self-syndication. The NFL created it's own product for distribution by others. That is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. With online instant access, the NFL is going to be able to market it's product 24/7 and in the age of hi def TV, even reruns look great. Watching games on the NFL network is a decent way to spend some time. What they want is fresh content, a fresh storyline. They have enough replays of Superbowls in flip flops.

Posted by: frito p., esq at May 25, 2010 03:55 PM (crDIp)

55 And they want those crazy frozen farkers barking into the cameras. They want a Super Bowl with some sense of fan rivalry. They want to ditch the clean corporate look of the thing.

Posted by: frito p., esq at May 25, 2010 03:57 PM (crDIp)

56 Football isn't a game for sissies. They can play in the rain or the snow.

Posted by: Ace's liver at May 25, 2010 04:07 PM (XIXhw)

57 Why not just ditch the rotating SB cities and just play the championship game in the home stadium of the team with the best record? Like they used to, and every other sport does. (Ignore the MLB-All Star winner setup, the best team has usually been the AL team anyway). Miami and Cali would be hit the hardest.

Posted by: Luca Brasi at May 25, 2010 07:18 PM (opI6h)

58 All you pussies lighten up Football is for men not fair weather fags

Posted by: WSMS at May 25, 2010 09:47 PM (TATbF)

59 Another sporting joke?

Austin to get the disaster that is F1!

Because it's so wierd and progressive to love Jacques Culotte in his screaming Ren-waaah.

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