It is absolutely ridiculous that the Super Bowl is played in a city where it can be cold.
This week has been ruined by snow, ice and a city that doesn't have a vibrant centralized downtown.
The Super Bowl should only be played in San Diego, Miami, New Orleans, and maybe Los Angeles and Las Vegas in the future.
Every once in awhile, Tampa and Phoenix can have a shot, because all though the weather is usually fine, the lack of a vibrant downtown puts them way down the list.
This Super Bowl week in Indianapolis has been a horrible experience and the city should have never received the Super Bowl.
Wait a second, did he write Indianapolis?
Yes, because as ground breaking and earth shattering as these sports writers might feel in lambasting the Dallas weather this week, they get to go to Indianapolis next year.
My first paragraph is 52 weeks ahead of the curve.
It's snowing there on Friday of Super Bowl week, they don't have a party crazy downtown and some of the people will have to stay in Illinois for hotels. It's unfair and a travesty to have an event in such a location since it ruins the entire week, for the media.
Realistically, they are most effected by bad weather in a city, since they are usually the people at the Super Bowl location the longest.
With only two weeks between championship games and the Super Bowl, most fans can't make plans that far ahead of time, and if they can they usually can't make it a week's vacation.
A lot of the festivities earlier in the week are for party people, celebrities, locals and the media. Unlike the BCS title game, which has a longer lead time, fans tend to come into the city later, picking up the pace Thursday and Friday, well after the media has been their for awhile.
See, the Super Bowl week isn't about Green Bay or Pittsburgh to sportswriters, it's about them.
Green Bay and Pittsburgh can handle snow. I'm pretty confident in that. This week has been tough travel wise with a massive storm, but the fans will figure out a way to get to Dallas.
This type of storm in Dallas is rare and unlucky but eventually the fans will make it. Real football fans and anyone who paid thousands of dollars for a ticket can fight through snow and can handle getting to an indoor stadium.
We as readers of sports media can completely relate to their perils.
I mean, we can all understand how it feels to get paid to hang out and party for a week at clubs, events thrown for them with the Old 97's, interviewing famous people, and for some media getting to go the Super Bowl.
I would be angry too if I couldn't go to a beach or drink until 5AM or have to drive 30 minutes to get somewhere.
I am so happy it's in Indianapolis next year.
I love the common thought that has been expressed this week that the Super Bowl should be held in San Diego, Miami and New Orleans.
The articles should actually read that the Super Bowl should be held at the Gaslamp District, South Beach and Bourbon Street. The Super Bowl isn't about the event, it's about getting a week to party.
It's so unfair that these elite humans in our sports media might have to drive or get a cab or not be able to party hard the entire week or go to the beach.
What's even funnier about the default thinking is that two of the three cities have massive problems.
The last four Super Bowls in Miami have been mediocre or awful, and one of them, the Colts vs Bears was the only Super Bowl in recent memory where the awful weather actually harmed the quality of play.
Yes, snow in Dallas or Atlanta or Detroit makes the scene less fun, but the downpour in Miami (where it does rain once in awhile) turned into a mess.
New Orleans is going to be tested on whether they are big enough to host a Super Bowl now, but I will agree that scene, stadium and city work pretty well for a Super Bowl. 3
San Diego is laughable.
Yeah, the Super Bowl should make San Diego a home, the city the Chargers will probably be leaving in the next few years. The city with the worst parking in the NFL and a stadium the Chargers hate.
They're not getting a Super Bowl for a long time, not while you have fantastic stadiums in Glendale, Houston and Phoenix.
I wrote the 2012 Super Bowl headline for many writers in my first paragraph, so in my last let me time travel a little more and experience the creativity of our regal sports media.
"Super Bowls should only be played in San Diego, Miami, New Orleans and Los Angeles. This week has once again shown that the experiment in playing cities in colder weather cities has failed. There was no good reason to hold the Super Bowl, here, in the Meadowlands, except to reward an owner for a new stadium. I think the NFL should hold higher standards for their fans, and most importantly, us, the writers who sacrifice our time while getting paid to hang out at the Super Bowl."
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