So the NFL announced today that the new stadium in NY/NJ is going to host the 2014 Super Bowl. HUGE SURPRISE! Wait, no it's not. The whole league got a collective erection just thinking of the prospect of holding the country's biggest TV spectacle in the country's biggest media market. But you know what pisses me off, what really chaps my rosy red ass? It bothers the ever-loving piss out of me to hear everyone talking about how this is the first Super Bowl outdoors in cold weather. Here's why the talk of this mess bugs me:
1) the media is acting as though the temperature at game time makes a difference. The 70,000 or so people at the game mean dick; it's the 100 million television viewers and advertising revenue generated by companies trying to reach those people who matter.
1a) aside from the few lucky fans of the teams in the game, most of the SB attendeesare either rich a-holes or corporate a-holes. Most of them are there for the event and not the game. They don't care about the result, so I am personally pleased that they will be uncomfortable in the freezing-ass cold.
1b) when you look through the list of great NFL games, most of them involve grueling conditions. The possibility of snow and/or other bad weather increases the chances of having a great game.
2) I'm sick and tired of idiots talking about how Detroit and Indy have hosted as cold-weather cities. THEY'RE INDOORS! The weather can only affect the droves of people walking around outside, not the game itself.
3) the game is almost 4 years away. By that time, our near-Communist government may well have bankrupted the country and it'll probably have decided that the elitism involved in professional sports is not fair to the rest of us who aren't superior athletes.
4) I'm pretty much just bothered by any news that involves speculation. The NFL offseason is a quagmire of what-ifs, when, maybe, perhaps, and Brett Favre. Speaking of, eff Brett Favre.
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