NFL Voting

Have you ever seen a Super Bowl in the snow?  If you said yes, you are lying.  There has never been a cold weather open air Super Bowl.  That is what makes the NFL spring meeting held in Irving, Texas so interesting.  The 32 NFL team’s owners will vote to see whether the 2014 Super Bowl will be held in new Meadowlands Stadium.  This will be the opening season of play for the complex that will host both Giants and Jets home games (like the LA Lakers and Clippers). 

The New York/New Jersey group is in competition with Tampa and South Florida to host the event.  Both Florida venues have held Super Bowls before.  New York is expected to be the frontrunner in the vote.  The 2014 season finale would bring in 70,000 fans generating hundreds of millions in revenue for the “Big Apple.”  My question is why don’t they play the Super Bowl there this year while the stadium is brand spanking new?

Another vote is pertaining to overtime.  The rule change that took place a few months ago gave the other team a chance to score if the first team made a field goal in OT.  This rule only takes place in the playoffs.  The vote now will be whether to implement this format during the regular season as well.  I can play both sides here.  In opposition to the rule change in the regular season, we may want to wait and see how it works in the playoffs.  In favor of the change is the fact that no other sport changes its rules come the playoffs.  And why should the NFL have a rule change just for the postseason? 

You may remember Donavon McNabb after a tie with the Bengals two years ago saying I didn’t know there were ties in the NFL.  Don’t make it anymore complicated.  In all likelihood the regular season overtime rule change will not take place.  But, sources say that New York will be the home of the first outdoor cold weather Super Bowl.  I would love to watch a snowy Super Bowl (at home).