Meadowlands gets SuperBowl?!?!?
What fukking moron's want to play outdoors in the snow
i hope its a Blizzard
JJ, go scalp SB tickets pal!
Meadowlands named site of 2014 Super Bowl
North Jersey got a Super shot in the arm today, when the National Football League chose the new Meadowlands football stadium as the site of the 2014 Super Bowl at its meeting in Irving, Texas.
The Meadowlands Super Bowl will be first in a cold-weather, open-air stadium.
Any other result would have been almost as unexpected as the Jets’ upset of Baltimore in Super Bowl III or the Giants’ takedown of the undefeated New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2008.
But for the Jets and Giants owners attending the NFL meeting in Irving, Texas, and for the Meadowlands-area businessmen, who gathered, along with Governor Christie, at Redd’s restaurant in Carlstadt, nothing was certain until NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s announcement.
That’s because the Meadowlands Super Bowl will be first in a cold-weather, open-air stadium.
“This is going to be great for the New York area, great for the two teams (the Jets and Giants) and great for the other 30 teams in the NFL,” said Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.
“I hope it snows,” Jets owner Woody Johnson said.
The bid was awarded on the fourth ballot, a simple majority after three votes requiring approval from 75 percent of the owners. After each of the first two ballots, one bidder was eliminated, Phoenix and South Florida, respectively.
Encouraging remarks by Goodell in February had led even backers of the rival Tampa and Miami bids to concede the new Meadowlands stadium’s frontrunner status before the vote.
The Tampa Tribune ran a headline Sunday that read, “Super Bowl race appears to be rigged for N.Y.”
The Miami bid was considered the longest shot because Goodell had suggested several times that its aging stadium was no longer Super Bowl-worthy without hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure improvements.
Several ownership groups, including those in Miami, Houston, Buffalo and Cincinnati, had pronounced the New Jersey-New York proposal as a gamble with the weather – raising the specter of a paralyzing blizzard on game day.
But others, such as Dallas owner Jerry Jones and colleagues in Atlanta and New England, as well as New Jersey real estate executive and Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf, had endorsed the Meadowlands bid well before today’s vote.
The NFL has had the Super Bowl at cold-weather sites before, such as Detroit and Minneapolis. But those sites, like the 2011 Super Bowl in Indianapolis, all have domed stadiums.
The Meadowlands pitch to NFL owners, as expected, leaned heavily on a New York-centric theme. Stadium Chief Executive Mark Lamping told the owners that the teams planned to incorporate promotions in the months and years before the Super Bowl with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York’s Fashion Week and Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
But Giants part-owner Jonathan Tisch and Jets owner Woody Johnson did mention New Jersey, if only in passing, on interviews with NFL Network that were part of the pre-announcement television show.
Tisch also mentioned that both his late father Robert and co-owner John Mara's late father, Wellington — two extremely popular owners during their tenures — would be thrilled to have the Giants join the Jets as Super Bowl hosts. And, as the Giants and Jets executives had done at a recent press conference, they emphasized the potential drama of a Super Bowl in the snow — however unlikely — rather than try to ignore possible concerns by owners about inclement weather.
Tampa bid leaders, meanwhile, stressed during their presentation that in their area, the entire region focuses on the Super Bowl for several weeks ahead of time — perhaps an implicit nod to the competition that even a Super Bowl might face in the much more massive and diverse New York area.
College basketball announcer Dick Vitale, an East Rutherford native, perhaps surprisingly passed on endorsing the Super Bowl bid of his former home town. Instead, Vitale embraced his current region by telling owners via videotape, “Come back to Tampa — you won’t regret it!”
Miami — technically South Florida — bidders, seeking a record 11th Super Bowl bid, naturally made that advantage in experience the key factor in their pitch to owners who only a few months ago attended New Orleans' dramatic win over Indianapolis in the latest Super Bowl. A regional rail system hub scheduled to be completed before 2014 also was touted as a counterpart to the new $185 million Meadowlands rail link.
Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross told NFL Network that he hopes to see stadium upgrades insisted upon by Goodell come to fruition if the area wins the Super Bowl bid.
i hope its a Blizzard
JJ, go scalp SB tickets pal!
Meadowlands named site of 2014 Super Bowl
North Jersey got a Super shot in the arm today, when the National Football League chose the new Meadowlands football stadium as the site of the 2014 Super Bowl at its meeting in Irving, Texas.
The Meadowlands Super Bowl will be first in a cold-weather, open-air stadium.
Any other result would have been almost as unexpected as the Jets’ upset of Baltimore in Super Bowl III or the Giants’ takedown of the undefeated New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2008.
But for the Jets and Giants owners attending the NFL meeting in Irving, Texas, and for the Meadowlands-area businessmen, who gathered, along with Governor Christie, at Redd’s restaurant in Carlstadt, nothing was certain until NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s announcement.
That’s because the Meadowlands Super Bowl will be first in a cold-weather, open-air stadium.
“This is going to be great for the New York area, great for the two teams (the Jets and Giants) and great for the other 30 teams in the NFL,” said Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.
“I hope it snows,” Jets owner Woody Johnson said.
The bid was awarded on the fourth ballot, a simple majority after three votes requiring approval from 75 percent of the owners. After each of the first two ballots, one bidder was eliminated, Phoenix and South Florida, respectively.
Encouraging remarks by Goodell in February had led even backers of the rival Tampa and Miami bids to concede the new Meadowlands stadium’s frontrunner status before the vote.
The Tampa Tribune ran a headline Sunday that read, “Super Bowl race appears to be rigged for N.Y.”
The Miami bid was considered the longest shot because Goodell had suggested several times that its aging stadium was no longer Super Bowl-worthy without hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure improvements.
Several ownership groups, including those in Miami, Houston, Buffalo and Cincinnati, had pronounced the New Jersey-New York proposal as a gamble with the weather – raising the specter of a paralyzing blizzard on game day.
But others, such as Dallas owner Jerry Jones and colleagues in Atlanta and New England, as well as New Jersey real estate executive and Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf, had endorsed the Meadowlands bid well before today’s vote.
The NFL has had the Super Bowl at cold-weather sites before, such as Detroit and Minneapolis. But those sites, like the 2011 Super Bowl in Indianapolis, all have domed stadiums.
The Meadowlands pitch to NFL owners, as expected, leaned heavily on a New York-centric theme. Stadium Chief Executive Mark Lamping told the owners that the teams planned to incorporate promotions in the months and years before the Super Bowl with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York’s Fashion Week and Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
But Giants part-owner Jonathan Tisch and Jets owner Woody Johnson did mention New Jersey, if only in passing, on interviews with NFL Network that were part of the pre-announcement television show.
Tisch also mentioned that both his late father Robert and co-owner John Mara's late father, Wellington — two extremely popular owners during their tenures — would be thrilled to have the Giants join the Jets as Super Bowl hosts. And, as the Giants and Jets executives had done at a recent press conference, they emphasized the potential drama of a Super Bowl in the snow — however unlikely — rather than try to ignore possible concerns by owners about inclement weather.
Tampa bid leaders, meanwhile, stressed during their presentation that in their area, the entire region focuses on the Super Bowl for several weeks ahead of time — perhaps an implicit nod to the competition that even a Super Bowl might face in the much more massive and diverse New York area.
College basketball announcer Dick Vitale, an East Rutherford native, perhaps surprisingly passed on endorsing the Super Bowl bid of his former home town. Instead, Vitale embraced his current region by telling owners via videotape, “Come back to Tampa — you won’t regret it!”
Miami — technically South Florida — bidders, seeking a record 11th Super Bowl bid, naturally made that advantage in experience the key factor in their pitch to owners who only a few months ago attended New Orleans' dramatic win over Indianapolis in the latest Super Bowl. A regional rail system hub scheduled to be completed before 2014 also was touted as a counterpart to the new $185 million Meadowlands rail link.
Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross told NFL Network that he hopes to see stadium upgrades insisted upon by Goodell come to fruition if the area wins the Super Bowl bid.