My latest Chicago Tribune column is on how Fox will handle the weather element of this year’s Super Bowl. Terry Bradshaw isn’t pleased to be in New York/New Jersey.
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From the column.
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This year’s Super Bowl will be played in an open-air stadium in a cold-weather city while the 2015 version will take place in a domed stadium in warm-weather Phoenix.
So pardon Terry Bradshaw if he remains confused with the NFL’s logic to subject him, his Fox Sports teammates, players, coaches, fans and everyone else to the elements Sunday.
“I don’t quite understand why we’re in New York,” Bradshaw said. “Was there some deal worked out?”
Actually, the game will be across the river in MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Yeah, there was a deal. Being awarded a Super Bowl was a big part of getting the stadium built.
Bradshaw and his cohorts are spending the week trying to warm up to the notion of a Super Bowl unlike any other in the big game’s history. The weather will be a big part of the story in Fox’s all-day coverage. Not that the announcers are looking forward to it.
When asked if it would be a letdown if Sunday turned out to be relatively balmy like it was for the AFC title game in Denver (temperatures in the 60s), Joe Buck quickly replied, “It won’t be for me.”
“I could see where the viewing audience might feel that way. I wouldn’t be disappointed. I don’t think the players and coaches would be either.”
Bradshaw is asking , ‘why are we here?’ The NFL has still yet to provide a reasonable answer to that one!
I hope it’s 10 degrees and snowing, just to make the idiots running the NFL look like idiots. The super bowl should be permanently located in a centrally located domed stadium where people would actually want to go (think New Orleans), with all teams sharing the revenue.