Consider this: This could actually happen at the Super Bowl in January.....

[LynneSin]

Superbowl is finally going to be held in a cold weather city that doesn't have a dome stadium!!!

BTW that was an AMAZING game today in Philadelphia - My beloved Eagles scored 28 points in the 4th quarter or so they say since technically no one could really see the game underneath all that snow.

Nick Foles RAWKS!!!!!

[rocktivity]

1. All NFL venues should get to host a Super Bowl

After all, the league isn't concerned about the safety and comfort of the players or fans when the weather is bad during the regular season. Otherwise, they'd come up looking like a bunch of money grubbers or something...


rocktivity

[taterguy]

2. Welcome back to DU!

How's your penguin?

[LynneSin]

4. I've always been around

Just less vocal.

I'm on facebook too

[Incitatus]

3. I might actually watch some this time if that happens. nt

[BlueStreak]

27. With any luck the halftime performers would slip and fall on their butts

That wold be the most entertaining thing to happen at a halftime of one of these monstrosities.

Why so many people get so excited about so many untalented people lip-syncing is completely beyond me.

[Incitatus]

29. I did like the Springsteen performance a few years ago.

The Madonna performance, I think last year with the 200 backup dancers and all the smoke and lights was MEH.

[BlueStreak]

31. I don't go for anything that is pre-recorded

even if the singer may actually be singing live. You have 6 minutes to get the stage set. A proper sound check takes 2 hours. These shows are all fake.

Even when the Boston Pops performed at the SB, the audience heard a pre-recorded program.

[In_The_Wind]

5. I'll be watching it.

[Agschmid]

10. +1

And maybe my patriots will be in it!

Although with Gronk out it will be much harder.

[LynneSin]

6. BTW this is also proof that Domed Stadium teams are doomed.

Personally I thought the Eagles would struggle against the Lions, who have had a good season so far. But in the end the weather was probably the biggest deterrent against the Lions and it showed in the 4th quarter when the Eagles made that amazing comeback.

[BlueStreak]

28. I guess I don't feel so bad that the Colts suck this year

Of all the years NOT to make the SB, this could be a pretty good one.

Seriously, this is dangerous for the athletes. They are always just one play away from losing millions of dollars as their career goes up in smoke. This is not how that should happen.

[Wounded Bear]

7. That's OK...

The Seahawks can handle it.

[Angleae]

9. Are you sure about that?

When was the last time the Seahawks even saw snow?

[Wounded Bear]

14. You can't be one of those people...

who think that the Seahawks still play in a dome, can you?

SMH

[Angleae]

16. I live in Everett. When was the last time it snowed here?

They definately know how to play in the rain but snow and sub-freezing temperatures are a rarity (and they missed the current cold spell by going to San Francisco).

[pipi_k]

8. Snow games are

The best! I just love them and I always get excited whenever there's a home game at Gillette Stadium in the snow.

[Agschmid]

11. +1

[progressoid]

12. I haven't watched a super bowl game in years but I would watch that!

[rug]

13. .

[a la izquierda]

17. Lol...

That's funny.

[LynneSin]

20. Oh I'm adding that one to facebook

woohoo!

[littlewolf]

15. I remember the ice bowl.

1967 championship game Green Bay and Dallas
GB 21 Dallas 17
it was awesome.

[B Calm]

18. Looks like a black and white tv broadcast.

[HappyMe]

19. Oh that would be great!

Snow games are the most fun to watch.

I think all the stadiums should be given a chance to host the Super Bowl. It brings a ton of money in to the local economy.

[LynneSin]

22. Almost as good as this legendary game....

That was the amazing Fog Bowl game of 1988 Eagles vs. Chicago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Bowl_(American_football)

They said this game was ranked #3 for most memorable NFL game affected by the weather. It would be interesting to see how yesterdays Lions vs. Eagles game stacks up to that list!

[HappyMe]

23. I remember seeing that game.

Well, I guess I was kind of 'seeing' it.

[LynneSin]

33. I was going to call BS on your post

NO ONE saw that game - they just saw this big thick fog of voidness.

I remember that game very well! Oddly enough I was not an Eagles fan back then. I was still a Cowboys fan but that was the last year because if I'm correct that was the year that Tom Landry was fired (or soon after the season was finished).

But we had the game on our TV watching it that day.

[madinmaryland]

38. You were a Cowboys fan??

[LynneSin]

39. I was a cowboys fan for ages

I knew it was time to replace Tom Landry but the way he was fired was just disrespectful. Jerry Jones could have offered him a position that took him off the sidelines but kept him with the Cowboys team. If Landry was not happy with that position then he could have resigned all together. But Jerry Jones toss Landry out like he was week old trash. I have never forgiven the Cowboys management since then and at the time I had just moved to the Philly area so I jumped on the bandwagon of the hometown team and haven't left since.

[madinmaryland]

43. Well. I'm sure El Supremo will take issue with my point of view, but

I think that even though Landry was the face of the franchise, he did need to go. Could it have been handled better; of course it could have. The last few years of the Landry regime was an utter disaster with no direction. It was kind of refreshing to have a new direction to the team after the previous years since the f***ing catch by the 49er's.

[greatauntoftriplets]

41. I drove past Soldier Field during that game.

It was hard to see Soldier Field and that's big!

[KamaAina]

25. I was about five miles up the lakefront from Soldier Field

I couldn't believe what I was seeing on teevee, as it was still clear outside at the time. It rolled in a few minutes later.

[benld74]

21. Oh YES! LET IT SNOW for Super Bowl!!!!!!!

[OriginalGeek]

24. So nice to see you!

Even nicer than that 40something fantasy points LeSean McCoy scored for me in that snow. And THAT was pretty freakin nice.

[KamaAina]

26. Glad you finally have a QB who doesn't kill dogs

and doesn't suck. Hopefully the Cowpies will lose to Da Bears (it is December, after all ) so you'll stay in first!

[LynneSin]

34. really? Did you have to even bring that up?

I mean it's been years and the guy served his time, did his parole, did his community service and still works hard to help out with the Humane Society's awareness campaign against Dog Fighting.

No I'm not the biggest fan but last time I checked the guy served his time.

[Glassunion]

30. I almost feel bad for the Lions

How the hell can you play in that away uniform in a whiteout?

How much you want to bet that anything over 15 yards, the QB was just tossing to anything in a green jersey?

[LynneSin]

35. The biggest question I have is how did the yard lines stay dark?

Were they regularly salting them or something?

[Glassunion]

37. No. The broadcaster was superimposing based on a 3D map of the field.

It was computers. If you watched the other snow games on a different network, you had no clue where the yard markers were because they did not have the technology in use.

At the sidelines they simply maintain the yardage markers for the officials with good old fashioned snow shovels. In the top pic in the OP, those markers were simply shoveled. Each 10yd and the two center lines up the middle.

[liberaltrucker]

32. Football wasn't meant to be played inside a building

It's meant to be played outside, in whatever weather conditions.
The 1967(?) Ice Bowl wouldn't have been the same played under
a dome. Loved that Philly game!

[madinmaryland]

36. Sorry, but the NJ Turnpike will be shut down, as well as everything in the City.

DiBlasio won't put the lives of the visitors and citizens of New York in jeopardy to watch a football game...

Oh wait, Krispy Kreme won't give a fuck about anyone and will let the game go on, because he will be in Florida where the game should have been played.

FUCK HIM.

[LynneSin]

40. It does annoy me that they are called the New York Giants and New York Jets

when both teams play in New Jersey.

Either build a stadium in New York or rename the damn teams.

I remember about a decade ago they talked about building the new Flyers/Sixers Arena over in Camdem NJ. The fans (myself included) when nuts saying we would not support a team in New Jersey nor would we want them to be called Philadelphia teams anymore. The new arena was built where the crumbling JFK Stadium use to be.

[madinmaryland]

42. BTW, welcome back.

Oh, and I am no longer in Maryland. Now in Ohio. At least I have always been an Ohio State Buckeyes fan!!

Edited to add: There are many ways to avoid the Ohio Turnpike to get through the state. I will send Sherrod Brown your regards!!