NFL Playoff Thread

And, of course, the obligatory reply from Scott Ostler:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/20/SP041MSCE5.DTL

 

Scott Ostler is too good for that shit. Filip Bondy, on the other hand ...

 

Wait until the national media starts ripping Indianapolis next month in the always-fresh "This City Sucks" column. Talk about something that never peaked.

 

If it's snowing outside for the Super Bowl, then it does suck.

 

Yeah . . . wait until NYC.

 

It's a television event. The weather makes almost no difference. Those 60,000 expense-account travelers in the seats are set dressing.

 

Damn well matters when you're doing time there, for two weeks.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/ravens-insider/bal-joe-flacco-ravens-quarterback-deserves-to-be-appreciated-20120120,0,3782950.story

Worth a read, folks.

 

Because it used to be an AFC East town, and due to the Final Four, I have been in Indianapolis many, many times. For the media and others who get there early on Super week, it'll be a fine location. For fans arriving on the weekend, who'll probably have to stay miles away, it'll be less enjoyable.
IMO, the Super Bowl should ALWAYS be in a warm or at least not-cold weather city. It's America's Party. It should be in a place where it's more logical to party in February.

 

As Gee points out, the press has it good in Indy. The entirety of downtown is now a series of microbreweries, malls, restaurants and hotel lobbies - many of them linked by skyway. The walk to the enclosed stadium is sufferable even by sunbelt sports writers. In NYC, everyone will come and go by town car or shuttle bus. The cold isn't bad - but the traffic will kill the weak.

As a corporate blowout destination however, SB week is better held in a city where the prostitutes don't need parkas.

 

NYC is so big it'll swallow the Super Bowl without burping. That's a pity. The game is more fun in a city where it's the biggest news in town, if not the only news. That's just not possible for a sports event there.
On the other hand, that'll make it easier to escape the madding crowds and go out to eat and have fun on Friday and Saturday nights, instead of hiding in the hotel with room service as is advisable in New Orleans, Miami, etc.

 

Indianapolis got a game as a reward for building a stadium. It was never going to be a destination for the Super Bowl.

Good boy, now here's your treat.