Should Weather be a Factor in the Super Bowl?

Even rugby matches get called off for blizzards and with the ground frozen solid. I’ve always felt that if a team can only play one way, under specific conditions, and can’t adapt then they don’t deserve to win.

That ain’t the trend because new stadiums are used for more than just football (most of them)
I find the whole concept of a home field advantage being conferred to a team due to weather in their home field to be weak at best, because NFL teams are not limited to drafting players from their home state. This means that on any given team you have players from a large number of various places in the US and even some from other countries. Each NFL team is a blend of players who have played in various weather conditions. I can’t see where there would be an advantage of one team over another with regard to weather. The condition of the field is another matter. You can draft teams based on the home field turf, whether it be natural grass or synthetic turf. Boggy or muddy natural grass or just bad sod like what you see in Soldier Field can affect a team drafted to play on synthetic turf, say for example a speed team as opposed to a power team. To me, the condition of the field is a separate issue from the weather in general. The field condition can be affected by other events that take place on the field between Sundays, not just the weather.
To get back to your question I think the weather should be a factor in the SB, but there are too many competing interests for this to happen. Too much money involved.

Football is played during the fall and part of the winter. Has been since the beginning. If politics isn’t a factor, all cities with a team should alternate getting the “Big Game”

Is apparently being sponsored by KY.

should always be part of football. I am more old school when it comes to things like that. Speaking of old school, I don’t really care for all the protection qb’s get these days either. I know, lots of money invested…so on and so forth. Just brings about too many ticky tac calls imo. If Butkus played today, he would probably be kicked out of the league. I never got to see him play, but plenty of footage when he did play. Great stuff!!

Does a big bag of flour make a really big biscuit?

The open stadiums can make a difference in the games. Like Spongie said, if a team can’t adapt they don’t deserve to win.

Like when SF spanked the Bears in the NfC champ. Our current team is not built for slow or slippery surfaces and I think we were at a bigger disadvantge against the Colts in the SB. Maybe Benson and Rex don’t fumble and we win. It is unfair to give one team an advantage in the SB not because they are weak but because it negates their strengths. Such as passing or speed or a solid kicker (Gould) vs a bad one (a bunch this year).

NY possibly having the Superbowl in 2014…pending the Mayans weren’t right, of course.

Weather plays into every other game, if you can’t handle the snow for the superbowl, you don’t belong in the superbowl, let alone the NFL

Hell yes weather should play a factor. It rewards teams that aren’t one-dimensional.

from sponsorships, to gambling (I know that comes as a big surprise, but, yes, people do bet on these games), to television advertisement. If you want to continue to see the NFL prosper and grow, you can’t expect the people running the event to chance a game turning on players falling down, balls slipping out of players hands, kicks being blown into the ocean, and no real way to handicap the outcome.

From a fan’s perspective, I really don’t want to see my team (I’m talking about organizations who actually try to get into the championship, not our current collection of management morons) work their rear ends off all year get to the promised land and have a mud bowl where the 2008 Lions would have a chance to beat the ‘85 Bears because of weather/element induced problems. That’s not what a 16 game season and a playoff system should come down to.

As far as “sissifying” the game, as someone mentioned, which do you think is tougher, getting hit by a Ray Lewis who has a full head of steam on dry turf or by that same Ray Lewis having to tiptoe on ice or mud so he doesn’t fall down trying stop you?

Personally, I want to see the supposed best two teams play each other at their best so there are no excuses when the champion is crowned.

If you can’t handle the conditions, then go to the Arena League!

[yes, I know the league went bust, but the point stands. there’s always indoor futball (soccer)].

The SB should be rotated around to each stadium in the league (well, maybe not to the dome teams). Why should Miami and New Orleans get 90% of all the SB games!?

To those teams that don’t have domes.

I don’t think there’s a such thing as a true neutral.

But I’m all for the games being outside. The colder, the better.

And if you have a Dome stadium, at least make the roof retractable.

Bring on the weather.