ITP EDITORS NOTE: :Marks Calender for 2014: Do the New York/New Jersey GIANTS (or even JETS) care to join me?
Good news for the New York Metro region football fanatics. The New York Giants and New York Jets have a new stadium, just a few yards away from the old (demolished) GIANTS STADIUM.
However, in a shocking and awesome bid to attract New York metro winter tourism, East Rutherford New Jersey WON the bid for the 2014 SUPER BOWL.
YES, New Jersey and the brand new MEADOWLANDS STADIUM will host the 2014 SUPER BOWL. Sounds weird, an outdoor SUPER BOWL in a state that is FREEZING cold in February? Usually Arizona, California, Florida, Texas or Hawaii host SUPER BOWLS,(and PRO BOWLS) as to NOT let cold or inclement weather effect play.
I think the 2014 SUPER BOWL, is going to be, well interesting, ("the frozen tundra of Lambeau
Field") as the old GIANTS STADIUM was a wind tunnel, as I feel sorry for any punters, and field goal kickers. I hope the GIANTS make the 2014 SUPER BOWL, or better yet, bring us another SUPER BOWL ring RIGHT NOW, as it would be great for either the JETS or my GIANTS to have home field advantage in the 2014 SUPER BOWL, if that means anything. Ahh, I can only DREAM.
Expect, the 2 teams whom have the privilege of playing in the 2014 SUPER BOWL to be very COLD. However, New Yorkers, New Jersey and ALL North Eastern football fans are really stoked about hosting the 2014 SUPER BOWL.
ITP is quite surprised, and never laughed soo hard. However, I'm definitely going to the 2014 SUPER BOWL, any SUPER BOWL is well worth freezing in the stands for.
The brand new MEADOWLANDS STADIUM is now open as last Wednesday, New Jersey's very own BON JOVI opened the stadium on a four night stand in front of 55, 000 people.
FROM SI.COM:
The Super Bowl is coming to the New York City area.
At the NFL Spring Meeting in Irving, Texas, the league's owners awarded the 2014 Super Bowl to the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. It will be the first Super Bowl played in an outdoor stadium in a cold-weather climate.
The New York/New Jersey area beat out two additional bids for the big game, one from Miami and the other from Tampa, Fla.
The NFL previously had a rule aimed at ensuring the Super Bowl was played in good weather, or in a climate-controlled dome. The league made an exception for New York/New Jersey this time, largely because it has a new $1.6 billion stadium to showcase, and it fits commissioner Roger Goodell's focus on trying to adopt a few new innovations for the league. The Super Bowl city's minimum temperature/roof requirement was set aside on a onetime basis only.
FROM STAR TELEGRAM:
The owners of the New York Giants and New York Jets were beginning to wonder Tuesday whether the one thing they could not control – the weather – would cost them Super Bowl XLVIII.
National Football League owners conducted four ballots at the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas before commissioner Roger Goodell announced that New York-New Jersey would host the 2014 game, which will be the first Super Bowl to be played in a cold-weather city whose stadium has no roof.
The Big Apple-Garden State bid won out over South Florida and Tampa, traditional warm-weather sites that have become a regular part of the Super Bowl rotation.
In part, the New York-New Jersey host committee can thank Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
“Jerry, very early on, was one of the strong voices supporting our bid,” said Steve Tisch, the Giants co-owner.
“I am, of course, thrilled for the fans of New York.,” said Jones, who gets to host his own Super Bowl next February. “Giants and Jets fans need to be recognized for what they do for the NFL.
“This is the best way to do it. I felt that when the Cowboys got the Super Bowl. It recognized what the Cowboys fans have done. I think that does it right there.”
But the fact that it took four ballots told Tisch and Jets owner Woody Johnson that, despite the entertainment and media riches that the NFL may enjoy by playing in New York, weather was a major stumbling block.
The average February high is 40 degrees, according to the Weather Channel.
“It was the 800-pound gorilla,” Tisch said. “And the other two presentations talked about their weather a lot. If we hadn’t gotten the bid, I think weather would have been at the top of the top five reasons. And maybe number two and three.”
Ultimately, Tisch said, the deciding factor may have been change.
Super Bowl XLV, which will be played in North Texas for the first time, and the 2014 Super Bowl at the new Meadowlands stadium, which opens with the 2010 season, both represent departures from the league’s routine.
The N.Y.-N.J. presentation was titled, “Then and Now”and focused on the future of the game.
“Every brand, whether it is in business, entertainment or sports, which is also entertainment, needs to be forward-thinking,” Tisch said.
Although there are 3 1/2 years before the 2014 Super Bowl, the New York-New Jersey host committee will be closely watching their counterparts in North Texas.
“We’ll be paying a lot of attention,” Tisch said. “We want people on our host committee to be here the week of the Super Bowl and take a look at what Jerry puts together.”
The vote came at the NFL’s spring meeting in Las Colinas. The NFL Network televised the proceedings, including a remote from Times Square, which looked like a second New Year’s Eve celebration.
The bid represents an alliance between teams that are rivals on the field and in the sports sections.
The Giants are one of the NFL’s founding franchises and were owned exclusively by the Mara family until Robert Tisch, founder of Loew’s Theaters, became a co-owner in 1991. John Mara, the son of Wellington Mara, who ran the Giants until his death in 2005, inherited his father’s half of the team. Robert Tisch also died in 2005, three weeks after Mara.
The Jets are an offspring of the old American Football League. They turned the football world upside-down behind Joe Namath back in Super Bowl III, beating the Baltimore Colts in perhaps the biggest upset in NFL history.
“At first, you had to pretend to be partners because we are competitive,” Johnson said. “But I have learned so much from these guys (Tisch and Mara). We couldn’t have done this without these two partners.”
The 2014 game will probably be the costliest ever Super Bowl because two states will be involved and security will be intense.
“This comes with tremendous responsibility and high expectations,” Tisch said. “Now we have to deliver.
FROM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
IRVING, Tex. - The Jets and Giants struck gold by breaking with tradition and fulfilling the promise of their joint Super Bowl bid's official tagline: "Make Some History."
The New York/New Jersey region was awarded the 2014 Super Bowl at the NFL meetings Tuesday to become the first open-air, cold-weather site to host the sport's showcase event.
"It's a historic moment for the league," commissioner Roger Goodell said. "There are some unique aspects to this, and I think that appealed to our membership. I'm confident that what we get will turn out to be a great event."
Although the New York/New Jersey bid had transformed from longshot to lock in recent weeks, it took four rounds of secret-ballot voting among the league's 32 owners before the New Meadowlands Stadium prevailed with a simple majority over Tampa. South Florida was eliminated after the second round.
The celebration stretched from Texas to Times Square.
"To have the Super Bowl and to have that credibility in the league that we could do it together is a resounding victory for the fans of the two teams and the NFL," said Jets owner Woody Johnson.
From Goodell's subtle support for the idea in February to the NFL Network's live broadcast of the announcement that was splashed across monitors in Times Square, the outcome was a fait accompli.
Johnson and Giants co-owner John Mara repeatedly preached cautious optimism in the run-up to the vote even when it became clear that the New York/New Jersey proposal was the prohibitive favorite. The bid also was buoyed by support from the league's most influential owners.
"I felt like we were eventually going to win it," Mara said. "But until they tell you that, you never know."
The Super Bowl Advisory Committee's decision to lift the 50-degree weather requirement opened the door for the Jets and Giants to showcase their new $1.7 billion, 82,5000-seat stadium.
The 2014 bid committee spun its biggest perceived weakness into a focal point of the campaign, trumpeting some of the sport's greatest cold-weather contests in history. Weather, however, remained the biggest hurdle until the final votes were tallied.
"The only concern that any owner expressed to us was the weather," Mara said.
"One or two owners were concerned about setting a precedent for other cold-weather sites. Most of the people we spoke to were extremely supportive. Very few people said no. The worst anybody said to me is, 'We'll give it our consideration.' We got a lot of yeses."
The game will be played on Feb. 2, 9 or 16, depending on schedule of the 2013 season.
"I think everybody wants to give it a try and experience it," said Patriots president Jonathan Kraft. "They built a beautiful stadium, and it's a great city."
Although Goodell downplayed his role to help New York/New Jersey become the first outdoor cold-weather Super Bowl host, he admitted that he'd continue to challenge owners to think outside of the box.
"I feel very strongly that we cannot be complacent in what we do," Goodell said. "We have to continue to find ways to grow the game. Innovation is a big part of our initiative."
Giants treasurer Steve Tisch commended Goodell's penchant for "pushing the envelope," endorsing the idea of hosting a Super Bowl at a non-traditional venue and ultimately helping the Giants and Jets make history.
"We're going to deliver the promises we made," Tisch said.
FROM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
New York football zealots cheered Tuesday night for a snowy Super Bowl.
Fired up after NFL owners threw caution to the elements and granted the 2014 championship game to the Meadowlands, local fans began dreaming of the ultimate matchup: Jets vs. Giants.
"I want to win the Super Bowl in New York City," Giants defensive standout Justin Tuck said moments after the announcement was made.
Darrelle Revis, the Jets' Pro Bowl defensive star, said he hopes Gang Green and Big Blue will square off for the Lombardi Trophy on the field both call home.
"The city of dreams meets the Super Bowl. It don't get any better than that," Revis said.
Giants quarterback Eli Manning savored the idea of playing in the chilly outdoors of East Rutherford, N.J., on Super Bowl Sunday.
"Obviously, it will be cold, but that's what playing football is all about," Manning told Fox News.
Standing beneath the Jumbotron in the heart of Times Square, an ecstatic Mayor Bloomberg started spreading the word that "the world's biggest game is coming to the world's biggest stage."
High-fives and deafening cheers broke out and fans toasted with beers in surrounding bars.
Bloomberg immediately downplayed the gripes of wimps who would rather see the big game played in a balmier winter site.
"If it snows, it snows," the mayor said. "This isn't volleyball; it's football, for God's sakes."
Weather Channel meteorologists said the early game-day forecast calls for a high of 39 degrees and a chance of snow.
"I hope it snows," said Jets fan Tyrone Jackson, 44, of Brooklyn. "That's the best time to play football."
Lorelie Gliatta, 48, of the Bronx, said the colder the better. "It's not a wussy sport," said Gliatta. "Whatever it is, you know it's going to be sold out."
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/05/25/2215640/nfl-ready-to-test-drive-cowboys.html#ixzz0pCq7vt5J
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