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i dont know how feasible this is, but maybe to avoid this problem they should try scheduling the Super Bowl in warm weather/dome cities like San Diego, Jacksonville, New Orleans, etc.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...oncos/4785757/EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Super Bowl Saturday? If the idea of Super Bowl XLVIII being played a day earlier than Sunday, Feb. 2, or even the next evening, seems preposterous, it could happen if a massive snow storm is forecasted for northern New Jersey that weekend.
NFL officials on Wednesday conceded that contingency plans call for the championship game to be played at any point between Friday, Jan. 31 and Monday, Feb. 3 at MetLife Stadium.
The good news is Eric Grubman, the NFL's vice president for business operations, said if the kind of storm that dumped more than a foot of snow on most of New Jersey on Tuesday is forecasted for Super Bowl Sunday, the game would likely go off at its scheduled kickoff time of 6:30 p.m.
In other words, it would take an even bigger storm to alter the kickoff time for the first cold-weather Super Bowl played at an outdoor venue.
"What goes into whether deciding to (move) it, first of all, is public safety," Grubman said Wednesday in a news conference at MetLife Stadium, where thousands of workers removed snow from the bleachers and field. "Unless it was a state of emergency which affected public resources in a way that made it impossible to get the resources here, or any kind of declaration by any of the authorities from the states involved that made it difficult to travel safety to and from the stadium, we would absolutely respect that."
The Super Bowl Sunday weather forecast, according to Accuweather.com, calls for a 30-percent chance of snow or rain, with a high temperature of 40 degrees and low of 25, and 6-to-12 mph winds.
While that's not the kind of forecast that would prompt the NFL to reschedule a game anticipated to draw in more than 110 million TV viewers, it's certainly not ideal conditions for the 80,000 fans in attendance.
And that's why NFL officials unveiled a "warm welcome" seat cushion to be distributed at the game, kit that includes: lip balm, ear muffs, hat, mittens, cup holder, Gaiter-dana scarf, tissues, a radio to listen to the game, six hand warmers and a quarterback-style hand muff.
"In quite a number of these Super Bowls we've handed out these seat cushions, which have been great souvenirs," Grubman said. "But this is part of our 'Embrace the cold' (theme)."
While New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called for state of emergency on Tuesday afternoon, Grubman said NFL officials used Wednesday as "a dress rehearsal" for readying MetLife Stadium in the wake of a snowstorm.
"At 7 o'clock this morning they put themselves on the clock," Grubman said of MetLife Stadium officials. "They are running about an 18-hour allotted amount of time, and we have people watching, evaluating and grading, so we're treating this as if it's pregame and we have to get the bowl cleared."
All of that meant snow needed to be removed both inside the stadium via the shoveling of hundreds of volunteer workers and outside in the parking lots, sidewalks and tent areas.
"A weather event of this magnitude is something that really tests people," Grubman said. "Not so much in, 'Can we get it done?' But more in getting it done in the way we imagined. Yes, we're taking it as a dress rehearsal but I'm not wishing for another snowstorm."
Another question is what contingency plans are in place for the events surrounding the Super Bowl, such as a Kickoff Concert featuring the Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Daughtry and The Fray at Liberty State Park in Jersey City on Monday and Media Day on Tuesday at the Prudential Center in Newark.
"I think that the various events that we have are going off without a hitch and in fact have already begun because staging this stadium is an event in and of itself," Grubman said. "We don't have a crystal ball on weather, but we're confident we'll be able to have our events."
i dont know how feasible this is, but maybe to avoid this problem they should try scheduling the Super Bowl in warm weather/dome cities like San Diego, Jacksonville, New Orleans, etc.
Yeah, people have flights scheduled, reservations etc. Going to be hard to pull that off
dumb idea to put it in new york
This is such BS, they always put the Superbowl in warm cities.
That'd be great if it was played on Saturday, then a blizzard rolled through on Sunday
You just know some media members will scream racism ("going out of their way to help the white qb"), like when the Masters made their fairways longer.
I hope everything that could go wrong does. Roger Goodell is a ing peice of that needs to go play in traffic.
They should just migrate everything to Miami, still got a week.
come on real men play during blizzards
the Goodell era continues to impress.
I mean its really simple, California is great right now or Florida. This is going to be a defensive game now, the offenses are both going to be non existant.
in Goodell turning the NFL into the XFL
Texas is getting some snow so weather ain't too good, but tbh winters should be like this, I'm not big on the LA winter. But even in Texas it's not going to look like a football game in the middle of The Grey.
This could affect Broncos, but tbh, their defense has really come together in the playoffs, plus Russell Wilson relies a lot on running around and chucking it in the air, so bad weather will affect both teams imo.
Anything can happen since its only 1 game, how many times has the NBA finals winner lost a game 1 (ie Miami last year). However, I just dont see Seahawks pulling through. Their offense has been horrible and they basically were gifted the last game. It's like this, if any team was going to do it, it was the Patriots.
The winner of that game wins the Superbowl IMO. Again, anything is possible, football is a game where 1 fumble changes all the efforts in a year. But I just dont see the Seahawks winning with that abysmal offense. Their defense is awesome, but their offense will be shutdown by the Broncos. Its going to be interesting to see what they do when they shut down the run game as they have all year long. Beastmode will be non existant in this game as I expect DT for the Broncos to be non existant.
definitely anything can happen in one game. I think Niners were better than the Seahawks going into that game but ultimately the home cooking plus Kaep krapping the bed at the end sealed the game. Plus that brutal Navarro Bowman injury didn't do us any favors. But Seahawks still won.
I don't know if Broncos necessarily need to totally stop Lynch, I think if they can stop some of those Russell Wilson big plays, where he Tebows it out there, then I think Broncos will be in better shape than totally trying to shut down Lynch. A couple of Wilson's chucks really hurt Niners thanks to defensive lapses.
Should still be a good game despite weather, hope Broncos win it.
I wanted no part of the 9ers, no way we'd win that game (maybe a %30 chance). I checked on Broncos Country, and not a single fan wanted to face the 9ers. They had that at ude like we've been here before and we arent going down this time. Kaep was playing very well up till that 4th quarter.
Overall, I'm not 'glad' to see the Seahawks in the Superbowl but I think its new territory for both teams as compared to the 9ers who felt it was their time.
Homecooking
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Homecooking
Its like the NBA, its about when those freethrows and which key fouls occured. Its so easy to look at the free throw discrepancy and say 19 free throws to 23 oh big deal.
Why would anyone question the brilliance of putting the Superbowl outdoors in New Jersey in the middle of winter?
Its football its meant to be played outdoors......bunch of pussies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You call down the thunder, well, now you got it.
You don't with America's unofficial greatest holiday.
You play the er outdoors, in a blizzard if you have to.
The game is the centerpiece. You can't move it without affecting everything else.
This is what happens when you with nature. Give it the chance and she'll always screw with you.
Play in the snow.
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