http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/201...more-ravens-rips-plan-play-2014-super-bowl-nj :lol: What a little girl! He's afraid to play in the meadowlands! That's what FOOTBALL is all about. It was meant to be played in bad weather. Truley elite QBs will do just fine! What a wuss!
Flacco is such a pussy, and dumb too. He should know when to keep his mouth shut, now he's going to be a media target for the next week. Good luck working on thay play calling in the circus, moron
The Super Bowl is about a million thigns but a football game isn't one of them. I agree w/ Joe(not his wording though), it's stupid to have the game in a cold weather City. It should be rotated btw SD, Miami, NO and maybe Houston. If the SB ever became about the football game then I'd have no problem moving it to new Stadiums every year regardless of where they are located.
You just said it's not about football, that it's about the extras. Dude that makes NYC perfect and why the NFL awarded the game IN SPITE of the potential freezing weather. New York has everything to offer outside of football
Bahahaha at saying the super bowl isn't a football game! There's no reason the game should be softened up for the super bowl. I want to see a messy game, where the teams have to fight hard to win. A good team, deserving of a super bowl win should have to prove themselves in real weather. Good teams aren't phased by cold/snowy weather. I mean seriously, what did these guys do before we had domes? Flacco's just upset that he can't just stick with doing nothing but hail marys to Torrey Smith. Somebody call the WAAAAAmbulance!!!
Personally I don't mind the idea of a Super Bowl with some adverse weather conditions. I think it could make it a lot more memorable and create some interesting situations. Now if it's a blizzard or freezing rain then, yeah, it's going to look bad in a stadium with no roof, but if it's just cold with a bit of snow: bring it on.
Flacco has an okay point but terrible wording. I guess the whole idea is to see the best of the AFC vs the best of NFC and weather could potentially hamper that. But we use weather to decide the games leading up to the SB so I don't see a problem playing in cold weather.
The difference is the home teams in the playoffs have earned the game in their building and conditions they are used to, in the SB no one has earned home field. if Atlanta faces New England it would be a huge advantage for NE.
Homefield advantage is earned in the playoffs kind of. Remember we have the whole teams with better records visting teams with worse or the same record because of Division winners getting HF. I mean we held the SB in IND and Detroit before right? Both cold city towns so the fan experience for the whole week was still going out in the cold to tour and enjoy the cities. The difference was the the game was in dome making the actual game experience bearable. Since I watch the SB from my couch, I don't mind where it's held and if cold weather is really a deterrent and would hinder a team that speaks more about the team playing. If I was a fan traveling to the SB though, I would rather go to the SB in a dome and enjoy Miami and NO for a week instead of NY.
Not really, unless the dome is in Atlanta and there are 80,000 falcon fans. The building would be split and they'd play in perfect conditions.
There is no point to what Flacco is saying...its lame to not let the Super Bowl go to other cities besides 4 or 5. Its time they started to spread it around and have other stadiums get a chance to hold it. I'd expect a SoCal or Florida QB to say this...not a QB who went to Delaware in college. What a sissy.
Both teams would have to overcome the weather, not just one, so it's fair. You could say some teams are used to weather, but likewise some teams are used to domes. So playing in a dome would give dome teams an advantage in 95% of super bowls. You can't say it's not an advantage. The sound is much different inside a dome and if you aren't used to it you could have problems. But again, for good teams, weather vs dome matters not. It's just some pansy excuse. You win the game or you lose and I'd expect any team that got to a super bowl to be able to overcome factors like that.
So, a guy who is from New Jersey, originally attended college in Pittsburgh, and transferred to Delaware is going to whine about cold weather during football games? What a wuss...
Both teams would but one would be used to the conditions and one wouldn't which would create an advantage. Games in domes are played in perfect conditions, the advantage in a dome is the crowd w/ the noise trapped by a roof. In a SB there's not a home crowd so that advantage is negated. The SB in cold weather doesn't bother me b/c I don't go to SBs but the crowd that does wants a nice vacation, nice weather and to be able to enjoy the game w/o the elements. You have to remember the commercial breaks are longer, halftime is longer so you are sitting outside for 4 hours in the cold and most of them aren't real fans, they just go to say they went or to promote a movie or something. Super Bowls are not for football fans, the SB itself is a bunch of commercials and a concert e/ some football here and there. The game itself is way down on the list of concerns for the NFL.
