Soggy Superbowl XLVIII

Tuesday the NFL finalized their plans to have the 2014 Superbowl in the new Stadium in the New York Area. The new stadium is going to be shared by the New York Jets and New York Giants. The New Meadow Lands Stadium will host Superbowl XLVIII. This is the first time that a cold weather winter city will host the Superbowl in an outdoor arena ever in the NFL.
Didn't we see enough of this a few years back when the Colts played the Bears at Miami's Dolphin Stadium? Did anyone really enjoy watching that game as it rained all game long and made the field soaking wet? At least in that one there is nobody really to blame because you can't expect that type of weather in Miami, but if you put the game in New York you have to expect cold weather and potentially rainy or even snowy conditions. There are two sides of the argument here. Some people think this is a good thing because football should be played in all weather conditions while others think that the biggest game of the year should not potentially favor one team over another team due to weather conditions. What if Green Bay and Miami get to the Superbowl in New York, then what happens? Would that give Green Bay an unfair advantage because they have played in the cold all year long? I would argue that it wouldn't because its not like the guys that are playing for Miami are Miami natives, and the same holds true for the players on Green Bay. So in my mind that part of this debate is not the problem. The part of this that nobody is talking about, and is the biggest problem to this idea is this, what about the fans? Does the NFL think that the fans are going to want to be spend the week in New York where it is freezing all week and then go to a cold weather game? I don't think so. I am a Seattle guy, a fan of all the Seattle sports teams. I bring this up because when the Seahawks went to the Superbowl in Detroit I had a friend that made the trip out there to go cheer on the Hawks. He mentioned how miserable the weather was the whole week in Detroit that week and that if he had to do it again he would fly in the day of and leave the next morning. Fans don't want this game in a cold weather environment. Fans want to take a week off of work, go to some nice warm climate and golf with there buddies leading up to the Superbowl. They want to go to all of the Superbowl festivities during the week and not have to wear a parka outside to keep warm. This is a bad idea by the NFL.
The other side of this if a cold weather city like New York can get this big game, then what is stopping it from going to Seattle in February, or Denver, or Green Bay, or even Chicago which clearly is a big market. Now one could imagine that New York has more to offer to the every day Joe than a place like Green Bay but where is the line drawn? The taxpayers in Seattle raised enough money to build the beautiful Qwest Field, why does New York get this game and not Seattle? The NFL, for a long time, answered that question by saying that the weather is better, but now with them giving the game to New York there appears to be no excuse anymore. Well see how it all pans out, but if I am the owner of any of the teams in a cold winter environment I am going to be on the phone to Roger Goodell tomorrow morning asking when my city gets the big game.
All of this probably will not matter a whole lot though. I have a feeling that after all the sports writers and football purist and sports radio host and angry and happy fans all voice how they feel, the game will end up being played in a nice sunny mediocre day in New York and there will be no chance that either team could blame the weather for a loss anyway. Well see how it all goes down, I hope that there will be no problems with the weather on that day. I don't want a team to have to be whining about how they got screwed like when the refs blew the game for the Seahawks at Ford Field. I'll never forget that one. Goodbye for now everybody.