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The Saddest Super Bowl Ever
By EmmaZahn on Thu, 01/30/2014 - 12:53pm |
This Sunday, Super Bowl XLVIII (48) will be played in an open-air stadium, built atop a New Jersey swamp, in 2 degree weather, while pretending it’s actually taking place in New York.
I don’t know what confederacy of dunces within the NFL thought this was a good idea. It might be the worst idea. It’s shaping up to be the saddest Super Bowl ever.
For starters, it’s certainly going to be the coldest. Weather guys are talking about 2 to 7 degrees. Ticket prices are dropping by thousands of dollars. People are trying to get rid of their seats rather than sit through the pain of a sub-arctic February night outdoors. Not to mention the shlep. If it snows that day, the highways and byways between NY and NJ will become so impassable you’ll need to leave your family permanently and start a new one somewhere around Teaneck Township off of the I-80.
As far as the pre-game festivities, if there were ever a city that couldn’t give a f*** about something the rest of the country is excited about, it’s New York City. Specifically Manhattan. When the Super Bowl hits other cities, like Miami or New Orleans, all the stops are pulled out and the week-long party literally takes over the town. The locals get into the spirit, businesses play it up and people from around the country (along with their tourism dollars) are welcomed warmly.
In contrast, here’s what we did in New York:
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http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/01/29/the-saddest-super-bowl-ever/
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There's been a lot of discussion about truth on this site lately. This article speaketh the truth.
I especially liked his descriptions of Times Square.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/30/2014 - 8:33pm
Petting zoo?
The only reason New York is on my bucket list of places to visit is to see the Statue of Liberty --- hopefully from a tall ship. Way too many people there.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:54am
Lots of people love or hate NYC who have never been here. Kind of like lots of things in life. We'll survive this latest assault on our good city!!!
Fun read though says he who wlll unapologetically watch the game in sis's living .room, bantering politics with my right winger bro in law, and watching our respective dogs wrestle and stuff. Doesn't get much better than that. Friends and family, human and otherwise, know no bounds.
I look forward to Russell Wilson making Wisconsin proud. . .and Seattle of course too.
by Bruce Levine on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 7:47am
That's brilliant, great link Emma. I LOL'd hard.
GO HAWKS.
by tmccarthy0 on Thu, 01/30/2014 - 10:44pm
Glad you liked it.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:55am
Daggers: Fact: Forecast for North Jersey for Sunday is a high of 50F, overnight low 28F. Nowhere near '2 degrees' unless you are talking Centigrade.
If THE BEARS, the greatest team in NFL history, had their way they would be playing, at their field, Soldier Field, no roof, at 2 degrees above zero! Ditka was the man!!
Fact: The f#@##ing greatest NFL Championship ever played was in -15F weather outdoors in 1967.
Is the Informedbroker a dumb ass joker or just pissed off the Jets didn't make it?
by NCD on Thu, 01/30/2014 - 11:14pm
Probably just young. No idea about the weather forecast.
I remember that game in 1967. Green Bay. Watched it on TV in the sunny warm south. Not much of a crowd in the bleachers though. And no Paul Hornung.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 01/31/2014 - 1:49am
Another dimension to this year's game:
by EmmaZahn on Sun, 02/02/2014 - 11:58am
I didn't watch it, but friends and family that did all agree that it would qualify as a finalist for a "worse Superbowl ever" contest.
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 2:04am
I attended the very first NFL/AFL Championship (Super Bowl) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1967 and it was a real snoozer. Boring is a better description. Green Bay boat-raced Kansas City 35-10. And, 62,000 fans showed up but it looked half empty in the Coliseum that held 105,000. We got tickets for 10 bucks.
And one other thing that stood out for me. A fella named Norm Schachter was the head referee and he just happened to had been my boys VP at Fulton Jr. High in Van Nuys, California. The guy could really lay a "swat"... I was always in trouble.
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 3:47am
It wasn't the most boring, it was the craziest superbowl I've ever seen in my life. The first 13 seconds when the Bronco's scored for us against themselves was, well, stunning and something I've never seen. I've seen safety's no doubt, but I've never seen a dude hike that ball over the head of his quarterback, right back into the endzone, where Broncos must grab that ball so the Seahawks don't score a touchdown. And that set the entire game, it through Denver so much, it was pretty much over for them then. It was crazy.
by tmccarthy0 on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 6:55am
The game reminded me of Super bowl 18 when the Raiders beat the Redskins 38-9.
At the beginning before the kickoff they showed the teams running on to the field. The Redskins looked like they were going to a picnic; Every player on the Raiders team had this same grim fixed expression that was scary to behold. The game was pretty much over before it began.
by moat on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 8:33am