NFL owners voted yesterday to put the 2014 Super Bowl in the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands Stadium that this season will become home to the New York Jets and Giants. It’s the first time the league has gone to a cold weather site that doesn’t have a dome; until now, those places couldn’t even bid on the big game. The coldest kickoff temperature in Super Bowl history was 39 degrees, and that would be considered a warm February day in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Average February temperatures there are 24 to 40 degrees, with several inches of rain. Also, the game kicks off after the sun goes down in the Eastern time zone, so temperatures would be dropping throughout the night. The NFL has required an average temperature of 50 degrees or a dome for a team to even bid on hosting the Super Bowl, but the league bent the rule to let New York bid.
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