SB in NY in 2010?

[Durango53]

New York moved a step closer to getting the 2010 Super Bowl on Tuesday when an NFL committee approved the Jets' bid to get the game - contingent on the construction of a new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan.

The approval by the league's Super Bowl advisory committee came a day after the Jets upped their bid for the rights to build on the land to $720 million, surpassing the $700 million from an energy company and the $600 million from Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden. The Dolan family, which owns Cablevision, has been in a bitter fight to block construction of the stadium.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who has supported a Super Bowl in New York since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, backed the bid. League owners are expected to approve it on Wednesday, contingent on the stadium being built. The 2009 Super Bowl has not yet been awarded. Atlanta, Miami, Houston and Tampa are bidding for the game, which is expected to be awarded at meetings this spring

NFL rules require that a Super Bowl site has to be used by a team for two seasons before the game is played - a rule that is expected to be waived for this bid because the new stadium won't be ready until the 2009 season.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/3481538

Why not? Hell football has been played in cold weather all the time so why not have the biggest game. Just because some of the wuss celebs wont come to it so they can pan the crowd every 2 seconds seems that much better to me.

Hell ya lets have cold weather SB!!!! Lets get a open field back in MN and have it there!!!!!! :thumbsup:

[KingDave]

I don't think that a cold weather stadium will get a SB bid. Its almost tradition that theyre in warm cities. But then again, the best games are always in the cold. Maybe Tagliabue and his people will prove me wrong.

[PissedPrincess]

Guys, this isn't an outdoor game. The new Jets stadium will have a roof.

[Durango53]

Damm PP I didnt know that!!!!

That still sucks then!!!!!! I want a cold SB played in the snow wind and mud!!! They play the Conf champ games in that weather so lets play the SB in that weather also....

[Tigers#1]

Not to sound like a cock, but you know that within the year that the superbowl is in New York, the whole world is going to have to stop, and revolve around this.

[Nanner]

..........contingent on the construction of a new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan.

That, right there, is the sticking point. Those of us who live on the West Side, near this proposed stadium, have been fighting this stadium idea tooth and nail.

This is another ploy by the Jets to get what they want......... going ahead and getting approval from the NFL before the stadium issue has even been decided. :hmm:

There are other bids coming in, for the site, but this is Bloomberg's baby......... he's salivating over having the Olympics here, and a new stadium is an essential part of that. Believe me, I'm sure he's jumping for joy that the big news has been released about "Superbowl in NYCin 2010!!!"

That site can be used for affordable housing, which is much needed in NYC. Let the Jets build somewhere else. :angry:

[rockin500]

affordable housing in NYC? isnt that an oxymoron? ;)

[Timberwolf]

That still sucks then!!!!!! I want a cold SB played in the snow wind and mud!!! They play the Conf champ games in that weather so lets play the SB in that weather also....

I tell ya what. I am not a huge fan of awarding Super Bowl to warm-weather cities just to get people to go there. I would love to see the league reward the remaining playoff team with the best record as the home team when the Super Bowl take place.

[Durango53]

Hey Nancy I never been in your neck of the woods but does NY have some run down industral places around there?

That is what Denver did with Coors. Some bad places in town they build Coors and it turned around that part of town. Just wondering if they could or looking into that.