Met Life Stadium Super Bowl: Empty After Halftime?

[Anybodyhome]

Think of this: The Super Bowl being in New Jersey and, by all accounts and predictions, the weather is supposed to be horrible.

 

Let's say we get a Denver-Seattle Super Bowl matchup. Just how many fans from these teams will actually make the trip and attend? We all know the Super Bowl is not very well attended by the participant's fans. The stadium is filled with financially secure corporate sponsors and guests, the spoiled rich and celebs. Very few fans of the teams playing the games rarely ever attend. Throw in the weather and there could very easily be travel complications for what few fans from either or both teams were considering going.

 

I can foresee the stadium half empty after the halftime show if the weather really sucks. Look, the people who go to these games aren't there to see the game, it's a social event for them. They have no emotional investment in either team and they also have the money to simply leave at halftime and go watch the rest of the game in their hotel suite or private box inside.

 

There's something inside me that just wants the NFL to fall on their sword on Super Bowl Sunday. Which is weird in and of itself because I think every stadium in the league should be able to host a Super Bowl. And I'm very pissed that Tagliabue promised Richardson a Super Bowl when he got the franchise and never made good on his promise, yet Jacksonville gets one and the above-ground septic tank that is New Orleans and the wastewater treatment plant known as the Superdome keeps getting the big game.

[SCP]

Seattle and Denver fans travel. They will be well represented.

[jasonluckydog]

Jerry Richardson misheard he wasn't promised the Super Bowl it was the Belk Bowl...

 

 

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

Don't know. I just hope everyone takes a moment to stop and appreciate the beautiful signs in that stadium.

[Happy Panther]

Think of this: The Super Bowl being in New Jersey and, by all accounts and predictions, the weather is supposed to be horrible.

 

 

I have not seen these predictions. While there is slim possibility of a massive snow or ice storm, more realistically it will be just damn cold. That will not run off too many people.

 

Even with a massive event, people paying $2k a ticket will probably stay put.

[Jbro]

No.

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[Riverboat Ron]

I want a blizzard of epic proportions so that nobody can see the game or halftime show and the score will be 2-0 after someone runs the wrong way for a safety.

[PntherPryd]

http://www.nj.com/super-bowl/index.ssf/2014/01/super_bowl_2014_weather_predicted_to_be_unseasonably_warm_no_snow.html

 

from Jan. 7th;

 

One long-term weather forecast predicts that there will be "NO CHANCE OF SNOW" on Feb. 2 in East Rutherford.

Even better for those willing to partake in the week-long festivities and be outside for hours is that temperatures in the days leading up to the game are projected to reach into the 50's.

The Super Bowl forecast comes from "Weather 2020," which is an app based on something called the Lezak's Recurring Cycle (LCR). It was developed by Gary Lezak, a weatherman in Kansas City.

 

 

same site, Jan 14th

 

http://www.nj.com/weather-guy/index.ssf/2014/01/super_bowl_forecast_meteorologists_getting_first_hints_what_the_weather_will_be_for_big_game.html

 

There does seem to be some level of consensus forming in the meteorological community. Most suggest a deep trough will cut into the eastern half of the country a little less than a week before the Feb. 2 game at MetLife Stadium, a signal colder than usual temperatures could be expected.  

How cold will it get? Opinions vary, but Matt Rogers, a longtime energy industry consultant and founder of Commodity Weather Group, said the setup looks strikingly similar to last week, when New Jersey saw some of its coldest weather in two decades.

“The pattern does look like it’s going to go into a cold dominated story,” Rogers said. “It will depend on the timing, but it could conceivably rival the cold we saw last week.”

Rogers pointed to an ongoing phenomena that is expected to continue known as stratospheric warming, which can have an effect on the polar vortex, as the potential reason for this.

The polar vortex is a large, permanent area of low pressure that generally sits atop Arctic and contains the coldest air in the northern hemisphere. When sudden warming occurs in the stratosphere near the North Pole, some 60,000 to 80,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, it can split the vortex in two, sending cold air equator-ward and into the United States, much like last week.

van Myers, chief operating officer at AccuWeather, jokingly said he isn’t sure what all the fuss is about.

“The (National Hockey League) hosted the Winter Classic in Ann Arbor (Mich.) a few weeks ago. You had 105,000 to 110,000 people packed in that stadium, the temperature was about 12 degrees and they got 7 inches of snow that day. It went fine,” he said. “Is this to suggest that hockey fans are hardier than football fans?”

 

 

 

 

[Darth Biscuit]

Anybody that tells you that they know the specific weather conditions on any given day more than 7 days from today is a liar and an idiot, they might get it right, but it's just sheer chance.

 

I seriously, seriously doubt people will leave the superbowl even if the weather is terrible and the game is a blowout.  I just don't see it.

[countryboi]

I would give anything ANYTHING....for it to have blizzard like conditions for the super bowl. 

[KJ89]

I'd leave after this half time show too.

I hope Bruno Mars trips and falls.

[dave-o]

Arent most Super Bowl tickets sold long before the teams are decided?  I dont think they are counting on traveling fans to fill the seats...

[Mr. Scot]

Seattle and Denver fans travel. They will be well represented.

 

And they'd be accustomed to cold and bad weather, as would Patriot fans.