Does This Look Like the Next Super Bowl Host City?

Boston.com - Boston will host a Super Bowl sooner rather than later. The notion seemed crazy for the first 47 or so Super Bowls, but not any longer. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been open about his desire to bring the NFL championship game to the region. And based on the success of last week’s events, you can bet that the cold-weather Super Bowl is about to become a “thing.”… And you can bet Boston will get one of the first cracks at it. A pecking order exists in NFL ownership circles, and Kraft is right at the top. He’s on some of the most important ownership committees, including the Management Council executive committee, and is chairman of the broadcast committee…the path is clear for Kraft to wield some power and bring the big game to New England.

I have to admit for the first 47 or so Super Bowls I would’ve said this idea is totally Crazytown as well.  But now I’m 1000% in favor of it.  And not just because Mr. Kraft wants it.  But for the same reason I was all for it when they announced the game in East Rutherford.  Because it’s football.  It’s meant to be played in the elements.  In my entire life I promise you I’ve never once watched a game played in extreme weather… any extreme: the heat, the cold, rain, snow, fog, name it… and said to myself “I’d be enjoying this a lot more if they were in a climate controlled, hermetically sealed dome someplace.”  I mean, think about how many of your great unforgettable football moments were a direct result of shit conditions.  The Ice Bowl.  The Snowplow Game.  The Snow Bowl.  San Fran at Green Bay this year.  When I was a kid I watched OJ Simpson run all over the Patriots for 250+ yards on an ice rink (which convinces me, by the way, he could’ve gotten his hands into those gloves in that courtroom if he really set his mind to it).  As a matter of fact, to me the worst development in football in our lifetimes is drainage systems, because there was nothing better on Earth than watching a game played in the mud and the slop.  A team that can’t win the Super Bowl because it’s played outside in Foxboro in February doesn’t deserve to be Super Bowl champs.  If you can’t handle it, blow it out your ass.  Join the Continental Arena League.

As far as the parties go, I’ll concede that Boston is still run by Puritans and the No Fun Police and Providence doesn’t have much in the way of culture beyond Waterfire and the Foxy Lady.  But who cares?  There’s nothing funnier to me than listening to the media, the sponsors, the swells, the corporate high rollers and other assorted Beautiful People bitching every time the game isn’t held in Miami or New Orleans because they can’t spend the week doing coke by the hotel pool.  So tough shit.  Stay home.  Or just fly in for the game.  Or kill yourself for all I care.  Because for 99.99999% of us it’s a TV show.  And by the time the Foxboro Super Bowl rolls around I’ll have found 10 million new ways not to care that the cab ride to the Maxim Party was cold and Boston shuts down at 1AM.

But I’d be lying if I didn’t say I also would like it in Foxboro because that’s what Mr. Kraft wants.  He built an entertainment mecca on top of a dirt parking lot in the middle of nowhere.  Like Brad Wesley in Road House, JC Penney came to town because of him.  “Gather unto me what is mine” and all that.  Mr. Kraft is the most powerful, respected and feared owner in the league and if hosting a Super Bowl pleases him, it’s the least the NFL can do. Make it so.  @JerryThornton1

What does everyone else think?  Vote 10 for “Bring the Super Bowl to the ‘Boro” or 1 for “I’m worried that Harry Connick Jr and Kevin Costner won’t have a good time.”

(860 votes, average: 7.62 out of 10)

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