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Sports: Cold Weather Super Bowl

New York/New Jersey just got awarded the 2014 Super Bowl.

Here is my take...

So, we are throwing out weather as a factor with this New York pick, and we have also don't care if a city is not tourist friendly; Detroit a few years back and Indy in two years. If neither of these things matter than why not just due what every other Sports League does and give it to the team with the better record?

It may end up in a cold shitty place, but I guess we don't care anymore. Why not award the team that deserves home field advantage with home field? They earned the right to have it. Let's stop treating the Super Bowl like every other sport treats their all star games; awarded to cities that have new stadiums, tourist friendly, and haven't had it for a while.

The first Super Bowl in 1970 was held at a neutral field in part because it was right after the AFL and NFL merged. They wanted to make it even between, what at the time was two totally different leagues. The AFL is now the AFC and there is now no difference between the AFC and NFC. From 1939 to 1969 the NFL Championship game was hosted by one of the teams in the game, which it should be now. (Although, home-field was not determined by record, but switched confrences each year. The West had hosted odd years and East the even. Similar to what baseball did before the insane all-star game rule. I like this better than the current neutral field but not as much as best record.)

I know you probably think that this means the game would repetitively be played in the same cities over and over, but here is what the last decade would have looked like, based on Super Bowl Match-ups and records, respectively. (<- can we stop using "respectively," in this manner? It's pompous and bullshit.)

2010 - Indy
2009 - Pitt
2008 - NE
2007 - Chicago
2006 - Seattle
2005 - NE
2004 - NE
2003 - Tampa Bay
2002 - St Louis
2001 - Balt or NY (same record)
2000 - STL or Tenn (same record)

Other than NE it is not as repetitive as you would have thought.

It would also make the game more of a game and less of an event. Everyone who has been to a conference championship game and also a Super Bowl always says the conference game is more exciting. This is due to actual fans being able to go to the games, instead of the suits that bought ticket packages 2 years prior to the game.

Please, do not tell me that this wouldn't work because a team and city can not prepare for a Super Bowl with that little notice. They prepare for a conference championship game in a week, and there is two weeks between that game and the Super Bowl.

Also, do not tell me that home-field is too much of an advantage. If it is too much than they should play the entire playoffs on neutral fields. Why make exceptions for the championship game?

I love this Brad Ass Idea. I am extremely excited thinking about a Super Bowl in Lambeau, or watching snow balls fly in Foxboro, and seeing the Mile High Salute, in the most important yearly sporting event in the world.

It's so simple, yet it will never happen because of money. Eliminate the suits and eliminate the moolah.