About Met Life..it was incredibly stupid..financially..NOT to enclose,kit..it could have become a HUGE convention/exposition center..used year round..more than covered the cost of the roof..
An increasing number of locations no longer see sports teams as worthwhile; this Super Bowl was a concession to push them to build the new stadium (and will probably be the only one ever played here). A lot of whining by locals that they aren’t making money out of this...