Why is the Super Bowl in the New York area?

[aggiesal]

Cold weather, snow and miserable fans is not the way to showcase a championship game.

And now the game is not even a sellout. As of yesterday there we're 18,000 unsold tickets,
http://nypost.com/2014/01/27/ticket-prices-plummet-weekend-before-super-bowl/

And because there are so many tickets available, ticket prices are dropping like a stone in water.
The average ticket price was $5K - $6K and are now in the $1.5K - $2K range.

In contrast it's in the 70's in SoCal with plenty of sunshine, just no water.

[HappyMe]

1. Why not?

It's always in warm climates.

I think every stadium should get a crack at hosting it. I doubt if I was going on Sunday, I would be miserable.

[aggiesal]

25. Really? The highest priced tickets are . . .

seats that have heating like luxury boxes.

The reason I don't like cold weather championship games, the weather
becomes the factor. It will not showcase what got both teams to this game.

[HappyMe]

28. If anything it shows their skills more.

Play through adverse conditions.

I wouldn't sit in a luxury box if I were going - that's not football. Not where I have lived -Chicago and Green Bay. Indoor football is like watching it a a fancy mall. I would rather sit out there in the weather as I did back in the day. It's a helluva lot of fun.

[aggiesal]

34. Slipping and sliding and . . .

and trying to throw with cold hands or with gloves, yup
that shows off their skills.

[HappyMe]

36. Meh!

The Bears, Packers, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City ...all outdoors, all cold.

[aggiesal]

39. Right, that's what the conference championship game is for . . .

super bowl should be played where the weather won't mask the talent
why each team got there.

You won't really know who the best team is, in these conditions.

[HappyMe]

40. Nope, I don't think so.

All the stadiums should have a chance to boost local economies with the game. It's about tiime somebody else gets the chance to host. If some are afraid of the cold, they can stay home. Plenty of people will snap up tickets.

Warm weather football sucks anyway.

[Blue_Tires]

2. Because when Russell Wilson crushes the overrated Bronco SCUM

It needs to be on the biggest stage in our greatest American city

[dsc]

4. wow the East Rutherford is our greatest American city

who knew?

[Blue_Tires]

8. Rutherford B. Hayes knew it....

[sharp_stick]

16. Preach It!!! n/t

[HappyMe]

7. It's in East Rutherford, NJ.

Hardly the greatest American city.



GO BRONCOS!

[11 Bravo]

11. Is Wilson going to talk them to death?

[CatWoman]

37. I like the way you think

[RockaFowler]

3. The reason why . . .

Because the last time it was in Miami it rained. Oh Boo-hoo. It was hot and it rained and it probably felt wonderful.

[MO_Moderate]

5. Football was meant to be played in the elements

If it wasn't for the dumb seahags, this game would be worth watching.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. It was a monumentally stupid idea. n/t

[11 Bravo]

9. Because the NFL likes to reward owners who are able to bamboozle, coerce, or otherwise ...

flim-flam the public into paying for a new stadium.

[KeepItReal]

32. And that's the correct answer. New(ish) Stadium = Superbowl

Santa Clara, CA's spanking new stadium built for the 49'ers gets it in 2016.

[Capt. Obvious]

10. 9-11 - or did you forget?

[Agnosticsherbet]

12. The ins and outs of the Super Bowl location vote

The ins and outs of the Super Bowl location vote

[jakeXT]

13. If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/28/opinion/downey-play-super-bowl-indoors/?c=&page=1

[riqster]

14. Because football is not an exclusively tropical sport.

[leftynyc]

15. Isn't it about time

the Superbowl was played in football weather? Watching teams play in short sleeves makes my teeth ache. As far as ticket prices? Cry me a freeking river that they're only able to get $1500 a ticket (esp since the face price is $800). It's all for corporate stooges at this point and I hope they freeze their asses off.

[sharp_stick]

17. Because it affords a bunch of wimps

an opportunity to whine about it.

If for nothing else I'm damned happy for that.

[msanthrope]

18. Because you should play in football weather...the Pro Bowl will be warm. nt

[Captain Stern]

20. The Pro Bowl was warm....they played it two days ago. (I forgot it was on too) nt

[librechik]

19. cuz money lobbying and politics n/t

[LibertyLover]

21. I'm glad they are playing the Superbowl in a non-roofed

stadium and in whatever weather Mother Nature chooses to throw down. I was getting tired of always having the game in warm and/or enclosed fields. Weather adds another dimension to the game.

[sgtbenobo]

22. Game what game?

I'm painting my bathroom. Enjoy your commercials and cheesy poofs.



Carry on.

[El Supremo]

23. Because of bribery.

Fuhgeddaboudit.

[SomethingFishy]

24. Wait, did you just tell me that the ticket price DROPPED to 2K

and in the same paragraph asked why tickets were not sold out?

I'd love to say it's because people are wising up. But more likely they are broke.

[B Calm]

26. Why do you care?

Doesn't matter to me where in hell it's played. My living room is warm!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

27. THIS is football...

And those ticket prices you cited are insane, even the dropped stones.

Bundle up and deal. It's fun!

[HappyMe]

30. Exactly!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

33. I worked at a firm for a couple of years that had Redskins season tickets.

We'd park in our garage on Capitol Hill, walk BLOCKS to RFK stadium, sit in all weather, walk (or cab) back, then head to Union Station for dinner. Those are some seriously good memories. And I'd much rather sit in snow, and even rain (plastic!), than blazing heat and humidity!

[Bluzmann57]

29. Why? Because it's New York

Just that simple. Now if Chicago or some other cold weather outdoor stadium place wants the Super Bowl, it won't happen. They aren't New York.

[seveneyes]

31. 1-2k per ticket down from 5-6k is considered a bargain for a ticket?

Not unless you are very rich. Add travel and other costs, you are into big money.

[Warpy]

35. They don't care, it's all about the money

and besides, the people who "matter" will all be in heated sky boxes.

It's more a cold weather, fall game. It was never meant to be dragged out until February. Sports move indoors to hockey and basketball when it gets seriously cold and snowy.

[NoGOPZone]

38. several reason for the lack of demand were suggested in the articles

and cold weather, snow or miserable fans, whatever that is supposed to mean, are not among them

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

41. I'd rather it be in Cow Pat, Texas.

Preferably between the Chicago Weenies and the New York Elves.

Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. Russell Baker '=

[brooklynite]

42. Here's the real answer (nb - I've been working on the Super Bowl for months)

The Super Bowl has historically been in a warm (southern) climate; however, northern Cities have wanted to bid as well for the perceived economic benefits. NY/NJ was seen as a opportunity to try out an open-air winter game in a location with adequate hotel/event spaces.