Jets, Giants Make 2014 Super Bowl Pitch

Photograph of Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez by Bill Kostroun/AP

Yesterday, the Jets and Giants presented their bid for the 2014 Super Bowl. Jets owner Woody Johnson said, "One thing we really know how to do in New York, we know how to deal with snow. We may not be doing everything really well, but snow we know how to deal with. We know snow. We'll be lucky if it snows. It probably won't snow, but we can always hope, right?"

Giants quarterback Eli Manning said one of his most memorable games was the frigid, below-zero NFC Championship at Lambeau Field in 2008, "It's one of my all-time favorite games. Not just because it was the NFC Championship Game. It was being in Green Bay, playing a game in negative 20 degrees. All those factors make a game special... Those experiences make a game more special. They make it memorable for players and for fans."

But will fans, who pay big bucks for tickets, want to sit in a freezing stadium? The Daily News reports, "The plan includes handing out hand and feet-warmers to fans, having thousands of blankets ready to be distributed," plus having heated seat cushions and "1,000 people standing by with shovels to clear the stadium and parking lot, if needed. Both Super Bowl teams will have indoor practice facilities (at the Jets' and Giants' training complexes)."

NFL owners will vote on May 25 on having the game either in NYC, Tampa or South Florida. According to the NY Times, "If none of the three cities receive 75 percent of the vote (24 of the 32 owners) on the first ballot — no one can recall a site winning on the first ballot — the bid with the fewest votes will be eliminated and the winner will be determined by simple majority on the second ballot."

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By Jen Chung in News on May 13, 2010 6:06 PM

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SikBug

I hope this never happens, when it comes to the super bowl you don't want any external factors to play in the outcome of the game. It's the best of best Championship game, you don't want say, Miami going up against New England, there is a def edge and thus makes the game unfair.

contortionist

agreed. I'd never want to see a super bowl here. it's hard enough getting myself to go to the extremely cold games here.

mellow_fellow

The lapels on Manning's jacket are wack.

soundfreak

NYC???

It's the Meadowlands in NJ that is being considered.

MrManhattan

Even the NYT is only willing to go as far as calluing East Ruterford "the New York area". It seems that the "N.J. word" has become the new "N. word"!

openheads

Very good Bright Eyes!

matty

NY knows fuck all about snow. Everytime it snows more than a foot you people call the whaaaamublance plus every media outlet in the country is forced to report about it.

If anyone knows about snow it's Green Bay, Buffalo and Chicago.

Guesty McSpanky

Green Bay and Chicago both get very little annual snow. Baltimore had 3 snowstorms this year that all broke Chicago's greatest snowstorm record. They're cold as all hell, but both receive very little annual precipitation, and the winters are particularly dry.

matty

I meant NYC.

Guesty McSpanky

Also, Chicago is also a big fat braggart about their snow preparedness.

matty

Our first female Mayor, Jane Byrne, was voted out for poor snow removal.

http://uppitynegronetwork.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/1979-chicago-blizzard-1.jpg

Guesty McSpanky

Re: The whole snow thing:

Ugh, it is so annoying listen to New York brag about its ability to deal with snow. First, New York does not get very much snow. Second, its snow preparedness, when measured against its population density, is not particularly impressive. You plow out one street and 50,000 people are freed from being snow bound. Buffalo knows snow, Cleveland knows snow, Boston is somewhat familiar with snow, New York knows how to brag over nothing.

Also, Northern New Jersey is no better at dealing with snow than D.C.

MrManhattan

Do we have the time and money to build a football stadium in New York City before 2014? Maybe they should propose East Rutherford, New Jersey. They already have one there.(and two football teams as well!)