Super Bowl Weather preference?

Super Bowl weather preference?

  • Cold and snowy

    Votes: 48 68.6%
  • Just very, very cold

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • Just very snowy

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • nice {mild} weather

    Votes: 17 24.3%

  • Total voters
    70
  • Poll closed .

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Just more evidence that the powers that be don't really care about the fan. It's all about the money.

How can you plan an epic event like this with the possibility of having to switch dates and time? It's absurd.

Do I feel sorry for the fans attending? I do for the diehard fans of the representing teams. Not so much for the rich and famous that go because the can.

Goodell is turning into my worst commisioner in the history of the game.
 

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I dont really care about those who are going and what their experience is jmho

If you dont want to be in cold and snow, dont go to a NJ superbowl. There is a super bowl ever year and most of them are in a dome.

The superbowl isnt about the fans attending the game it is about the two best teams competing for a title.

My point has nothing to do with being out in the cold...read again. It's about fans potentially getting screwed because the NFL won't play the game in the elimates until another day, which screws the fans.

Yeah, I'm sure if you were going to see the Redbirds this weekend & those scenarios played out, you would be a happy camper!!! :mulli:
 

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Just more evidence that the powers that be don't really care about the fan. It's all about the money.

How can you plan an epic event like this with the possibility of having to switch dates and time? It's absurd.

Do I feel sorry for the fans attending? I do for the diehard fans of the representing teams. Not so much for the rich and famous that go because the can.

Goodell is turning into my worst commisioner in the history of the game.
:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

It's a disgrace to potentially treat you fans that way IMO & I went on a rant earlier this week about the same things. Hey the games gonna be played in bad weather, I get that. But don't **** your fans who've paid thousands of $$$ moving the date because YOU decided to play in bad weather!!! :mulli:
 

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My point has nothing to do with being out in the cold...read again. It's about fans potentially getting screwed because the NFL won't play the game in the elimates until another day, which screws the fans.

Yeah, I'm sure if you were going to see the Redbirds this weekend & those scenarios played out, you would be a happy camper!!! :mulli:


I disagree with any moving of the game. The game should go on at the appointed time and day regardless of the weather. This opinion is not based on the fans though, its based on thats how football should be played. If the cardinals were in the game, I would watch from home. I would rather go to the caribbean than spend 2k+ to go to a football game.

Especially a football game in new jersey in february.
 

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How about snow flurries during the game and a massive storm at halftime that will force cancellation of whatever this year's "entertainment" is supposed to be, thus causing the NFL to implement a normal-length halftime break from now on?
 

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How about snow flurries during the game and a massive storm at halftime that will force cancellation of whatever this year's "entertainment" is supposed to be, thus causing the NFL to implement a normal-length halftime break from now on?


:raccoon:
 

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This is more about the fans than it is the players! Fans are shelling out years of savings in order to attend a game of this magnitude. Why should they be subjected to conditions that don't allow you to relish in the total experience. I have friends that went to the Steelers/Seahawks SB in Detroit. He said the experience was pathetic. The weather shut down any tailgating & the reighborhoods you had to park in were scary.

Because they play this game every year. Dont want to risk the weather? DONT GO. This game should never ever ever be about the fans, the sponsors, the cities, or the halftime show. Its about the teams, the players, the game.

This game is played in inclement weather all the time. Each regular season game is a step toward one thing; a championship. Why preclude that final, most important game of the season from the things that make winter games so exciting?

I think its awesome, and will be watching from the warmth of my apartment.
 

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My point has nothing to do with being out in the cold...read again. It's about fans potentially getting screwed because the NFL won't play the game in the elimates until another day, which screws the fans.

Yeah, I'm sure if you were going to see the Redbirds this weekend & those scenarios played out, you would be a happy camper!!! :mulli:

You arent actually arguing that a fan who spent all this time and money making a visit to the superbowl happen wouldnt pay the 100 dollar ticket fee to change their airfare back home are you? As if theres NO WAY to adjust your weekend to stay on vacation an extra day. The horror!

Thats absurd.
 

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This is nuts playing in a no roof stadium this time of year. I'd rather watch these talented players playing to there best ability on a clear field. With cheerleaders jumping on the sidelines. I wouldn't go to this one if everything were free!

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You arent actually arguing that a fan who spent all this time and money making a visit to the superbowl happen wouldnt pay the 100 dollar ticket fee to change their airfare back home are you? As if theres NO WAY to adjust your weekend to stay on vacation an extra day. The horror!

Thats absurd.

I'm sure you & most others do that for all your so called vacations ;)

The absurd thing is the commissioner having the right to change the day of the Super Bowl costing fans hundreds of dollar$ more because he knew bad weather was a possibility years ago when scheduling this. I don't have a problem with the potential for weather, I have a problem with the NFL being able to manipulate gameday for their own benefit. :mulli:

What if the game was moved to next Saturday, which is a day they have open to move it too if they want? I'm sure you would be fine with that too if you were flying in late Saturday. Hmmm
 
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Its called a contingency plan. Not manipulation. But I guess that depends on perspective. If the league is so GD nefarious in your eyes, why support at all?
 

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This game should never ever ever be about the fans, the sponsors, the cities, or the halftime show.

But it is. Every year. And don't forget the commercials.

The events that are about the players, the team, the game are the AFC and NFC Championship games.

People who have been to both tell me the atmosphere is completely different at the SB from the Conference Championship.
 
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How about snow flurries during the game and a massive storm at halftime that will force cancellation of whatever this year's "entertainment" is supposed to be, thus causing the NFL to implement a normal-length halftime break from now on?

Then they wouldn't have time for all of those sweet commercials. That's the only reason most watch it anyway. :D
 

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Its called a contingency plan. Not manipulation. But I guess that depends on perspective. If the league is so GD nefarious in your eyes, why support at all?

People have a right to bitch about any decision they think is stupid, even if it doesn't affect them. Why do you have to be the NFL's schill?

Oh, that's right, it's an "opinion" and it's "free speech".
 

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This game should never ever ever be about the fans, the sponsors, the cities, or the halftime show.

But it is. Every year. And don't forget the commercials.

The events that are about the players, the team, the game are the AFC and NFC Championship games.

People who have been to both tell me the atmosphere is completely different at the SB from the Conference Championship.

I would argue that it isn't, based on the feelings of a lot of posters on this topic. And Im totally fine with that.
 

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People have a right to bitch about any decision they think is stupid, even if it doesn't affect them. Why do you have to be the NFL's schill?

Oh, that's right, it's an "opinion" and it's "free speech".

WTF is this? Expressing my opinion about the topic makes me a shill? the above post is rife with idiocy.
 

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Sleet, awful, wet and freezing weather.

Playing a Super Bowl in potentially awful weather is idiotic and I hope they feel the idiocy.

Final score 3-0 just the kind of game I want to see. We will have perhaps the greatest QB to ever play football and he cannot throw the ball to receivers who cannot run on ice and the QB cannot get a grip on the ball. Do I like sitting out doors with winds blowing 30 mph and the temp at -2? Hell no I do not. I would much prefer to be sitting with the guys in a bar with a 68" big flat screen sucking on a Miller Lite with the temp around 72 degrees. Maybe across the street from the stadium where I can hear the crowd noise for some reality. I might even wear some of my Cards gear since we have turned into a real football team and beat one of the contenders in this game.
 

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Want it to be cold and snowy, an epic disaster that keeps the league in a warm weather rotation until the end of time. Also, an epic NYC failure will make an AZ SB look all that much better next year.

And if it is so cold that they have to amputate a few fingers from Russell Wilson's throwing hand due to hypothermia, so be it. (kidding)
 
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it just amazes me to see how this league and its players have degraded into such ******* over the years,.....and now apparently the fans have become ******* as well.

I would not pay to go to a NY superbowl,...don't like NY....but if I won free tickets, you bet your ass I would go,...and I would sit there in my seat at 20 below zero in 12 inches of snow and love every damned minute of it....why?? Because I AM AT THE SUPER BOWL!!!

It saddens me that so many Cardinals fans can openly demonstrate a truer meaning to the term "Fair Weather Fan"....after sooo many of us sat every week in 120 degrees to watch our team lose,...now we are bitching about the weather at the Super Bowl........amazing.
 
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