Here's what the Super Bowl will look like in 2014...

[madinmaryland]

Yeah. This should go real well.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/05/joe_gibbs_on_a_new_york_super.html

On Jan. 11, 1987, the Redskins played the Giants for the NFC championship in East Rutherford. The Redskins lost, 17-0, getting shut out for the first time in the Gibbs era. The winds that day were gusting up to 30 mph, and Gibbs later said that the coin flip, which the Skins lost, "was possibly the biggest play of the game." And the post-game reports read more like weather reports than game stories.

Christine Brennan:

The score was New York 17, Washington 0, with the following footnote: the only thing more dominating than the Giants was the wind, which gusted up to 30 mph....

There was no comeback today, for several reasons. The wind was the largest factor. "You had no control over the ball after 12 to 15 yards," Schroeder said. He threw 34 times in the second half (the Redskins ran only once), but completed just 14.

Ken Denlinger:

There had been a quadruple conspiracy against Sunday: his own erratic arm, his receivers dropping passes properly thrown, the Giants' relentless defense and a wind that made the football fluttery as a balloon....

"The wind took the ball after about 15 yards, made it tough to judge," he said. "I tried to power it, but it was like catching a knuckleball. Green Bay was as windy, but this was more of a swirling wind. That one was straight on {and a tight spiral could defeat it}."

Leonard Shapiro:

Lots of things didn't happen for the Redskins this blustery day. Yes, they even blamed the wind for Bostic's low snap on a botched 51-yard field goal attempt that led to the Giants' final touchdown.

"When you have a 40-mile-per-hour wind, it's amazing what it can do to the football," Bostic said. "I was trying to keep the snap low. I really don't know if the wind got it, but I'm sure it was a factor. The wind had an effect on everything."

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[Condem]

1. Where are you from, stick?

This is embarassing.

[madinmaryland]

2. Huh? Where do they play all of the College Bowl games.

Or at least the ones that matter.

** crickets **

[Condem]

3. And I've been arguing since I got to this cherished place to move ..

.. the Rose Bowl to Soldier Field every other year.

[madinmaryland]

11. What are you huffing tonight, con?

I know that the BCS has bastardized all of the major bowl games, but the Rose Bowl to Soldier Field? Dumb squared.

Had the NCAA decided that Bowl Games should be played in the North, there would be NO bowl games.

How many times do I have to say this?

:wtf:

[Condem]

12. Dreaming of Maria Callas....

....whoever she is.

[madinmaryland]

13. You are a Prima Donna??

:shrug:

[El Supremo]

4. What Drew Litton says:

"Politics. It always boils down to politics. That’s ultimately what decided the location for Super Bowl XLVIII. New Jersey? Seriously? For years people talked about having a Super Bowl here in Denver. Great place to have a game. State of the art facility. Huge fan support here. Skiing nearby. Same weather as Jersey. Actually usually much better. But Denver lacks the political clout and the financial heavyweights that determined the NFL’s first outdoor Super Bowl. In February. In New Jersey. It’s your turn to sound off on this boneheaded decision. Personally, I’m praying for a blizzard."

[Auggie]

5. Divisional Conference game, Raiders vs. Browns, January 4th 1981

In Cleveland. Game-time temperature of 4 °F with a −36 °F wind chill -- the coldest NFL game since the Ice Bowl of December 31, 1967, Dallas Cowboys vs. the Green Bay Packers.

It was the infamous game in which Cleveland QB Brian Sipe was intercepted by Oakland's DB Mike Davis in the end zone with under a minute left and the Browns trailing 12-14. The Browns opted to pass to Ozzie Newsome rather than rely on kicker Don Cockroft, who had missed on two prior field goal attempts in the wind and cold. From the 13 yard line it would have been a gimme -- in semi-normal conditions.

I remember that game vividly because it's one I mostly missed. I was flying from Cleveland to the Bay Area that day and drove by Municipal Stadium hours before the game began. I was thinking what a miserably cold day it was to play football. And I was pissed I hadn't planned my travel day around the game.

Luckily, there wasn't much of a head wind and we landed at SFO with a few minutes left in the fourth quarter. The pilot had been giving us updates on the score since the passenger list, after all, included many from both cities, so we knew it was a close game.

I found a bar showing the game and sat down just in time to watch the Browns run "Red Right 88" -- and see Davis cut in front Newsome to make the interception. And that was it. Raiders won 14-12.

Wind and cold do things than just effect the ball. It screws around with the game plan and player confidence, and becomes a bigger story than the game itself.

No one wants a Super Bowl decided that way.

[madinmaryland]

9. +10000.

I don't want the BIGGEST game of the year decided in a blizzard or on a -10 degree night.

Fucking Disgraceful.

[MadBadger]

6. I'm fine with that

:7 :7

[Condem]

7. So am I, Mad.

Sorry, Auggie. The Gints go into Green Bay two years ago and win. That was some interesting football. The ratings were through the roof. Because there wasn't one.

[MadBadger]

8. No, you dont understand

I'm fine with the colors.

[Auggie]

10. It wasn't the Super Bowl

There are strong differences of opinion here.

Well, it's going to happen in 2014 -- provided the world doesn't implode in 2012.

:)