Perhaps looking to ride the momentum of New Jersey landing the 2014 Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie Wants to put Super Sunday in Lincoln Financial Field.
Of course, Lurie indicated that such a campaign is contingent upon public safety and the success of the New Jersey-New York Super Bowl:
As long as there’s no public safety issue that day, I think it would be great if it’s snowing a bit.
As much as I’d love to only need a 20 to 30 minute drive to participate in Super Bowl activities, holding the biggest single day sports event of the year in Philly would be…strange.
Holding a Super Bowl in a cold-weather city is a bit of a novelty act at this point because of the years of running in Miami, New Orleans, Glendale, Tampa, and other warm weather/dome sites.
If I’m pulling the strings on this, to appease the “they used to hold championship games in cold weather” people, I’d use cold-weather sites to host every four years.
In that event, Green Bay, Chicago, East Rutherford, and Landover, MD would host. I’d go with Landover over Philly because of the stadium capacity. FedEx Field holds 91,000 plus to the Linc’s 68,000.
Also, if you’re doing this in a cold-weather city and it’s a novelty, the city must have a Super Bowl to its credit.
A franchise’s resumé should be a part of this too. If your team has never won a Super Bowl, no outdoors Super Sunday for you. It’s like rolling credit. If a cold-weather site is going to host the world’s biggest football game, the stadium needs some backstory and allure to it.
The Linc is missing the latter.
No offense, Jeff. I’m keeping Philly on the backburner for now.
I’d be much happier with seeing the Birds winning a Super Bowl first then hosting one.
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In other news, I think holding the soccer World Cup Final in Tulsa is an awesome idea. but then again, I drink a lot.