We won't have a worthy team to throw sensitive office personnel documents ticker tape at this year, but next year we'll still have a few festivities whether or not New York makes it on the field in 2014: the Super Bowl will be held at MetLife Stadium next year, and the city's already detailing plans for a major celebration.
At a press conference yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg and and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodall laid out an overview of the events surrounding next year's Feb. 2 game. And be prepared for a whole lot of football feting: they plan to create a little Super Bowl City between 34th and 44th streets on Broadway, where they'll hold four days worth of nightly concerts, mini football competitions, player autograph sessions and other Bowl-centric activities. "We’ve come up with ambitious plans that really are unprecedented even by Super Bowl standards," Goodell told reporters.
But, sadly, the events won't be the only thing that's unprecedented. This Meadowlands, NJ Super Bowl will be the first one played outdoors in cold weather—previous games in winter weather conditions have been played under domes—and if the temperatures are anything like this year's, it'll be COOOOOOOLD. But, naturally, Bloomberg shows fear in the face of no weather, and he's ready for a sub-zero Super Bowl if need be (unless he's in Bermuda, that is). "I went to games at Yankee Stadium all the time. Sometimes it was cold and sometimes it wasn’t. I grew up in the days when football was played outside in the weather.” Of course, Bloomberg's football games of yore probably weren't played outside in February, or, if the powers that be are really against us, during a massive blizzard, but no need to let those details get us down.
