Posted on 02/03/2011 12:24:23 PM PST by Cpl. Dwayne Hicks
The DFW area had years to plan for this but three days after being hit with a winter storm it still doesn't have important sidewalks cleared. Yes, the roads to and from the Death Star (Cowboys Stadium) have been cleared but the sidewalks in the two downtown areas where the teams, media and out-of-town visitors are staying are still covered with a thick layer of ice.
Enjoy this Super Bowl, DFW. It will be your last. Just ask Detroit and Atlanta.
Football was made to be played in wintry weather, next year’s SB will be in Giants Stadium.
Sorry, but when you handle snow you don’t deal with insurance, unions, labor and liability, all under budget caps.
Your side walk will reasonably shine by game time. Count on it.
Dallas ain’t Minneapolis. They rarely have this kind of weather. The teams, media and the out-of-towners should be grateful that they can get to the game instead of whining from their hotel rooms about not being able to get out and about on Commerce Street, the West End, and Deep Ellum.
Silly post.
This is ice, not snow, and this is completely unexpected and largely unprecedented weather.
That said, I’ll be perfectly happy if the Super Bowl never comes back. Bah, humbug, and I’d rather watch it on TV than put up with the traffic and inconvenience.
Not to mention lighting up JerryWorld while the rest of us have blackouts.
The game, yes, but the events and festivities leading up to it? I’m sure the NFL will hear from all those attending to “keep it in warm weather locales!”
The city Dallas is run by demoRAT thugs, union bosses and is heavily Mexican, black and other welfare-dependent minorities. As Reggie White put it a few years ago, they're not very good at managing things.
In contrast, the mostly Conservative suburban areas of North Texas are doing reasonably well coping with the cold weather and ice.
It's the typical model reflected here -- liberalism utterly fails and Conservatism thrives, making the best out of a bad situation.
Texas has been dealing with ice for years especially that part of TX.
Dude. It’s only Thursday. Don’t worry. By Sunday everything will be perfect.
And don’t forget... Jerry kept his billion dollar playhouse warm this week with no blackouts.
Not that I give a crap, but this will be a very good Superbowl. (Now, WHO’S playing again??)
“...the players were complaining that it was freezing inside...”
GREEN BAY Players were complaining? I kinda don’t think so.
Don’t know about those wussie Steelers players - you may be right.
lol
What sane person would want to go to places like those even in ideal weather?
Deep Ellum is filled with menacing ghetto thugs and a several years ago, a Dallas police officer was shot near Commerce Street as the inner city diversity crowd cheered on his murderer with their typical hooting and hollering. The West End is home to roaming "yute" gangs.
The nice places in the region are in the Conservative suburban areas such as Highland Park, Southlake Town Square and Legacy Town Center.
Yes, several plays from both teams complained. I watched live coverage of media day on the NFL Network.
I agree. Fort Worth had the best venue but the weather is keeping everyone in for the most part.
With all the crying about this rare weather event in the D/FW metroplex, what’s it going to be like in February 2014 when Super Bowl 48 is played in the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey? That part of the country in February is not going to be condusive to having a very successful Super Bowl. What if that area gets hit with a blizzard a few days before the game? What are the attendees going to do? The same thing they’re doing in the Metroplex now. Complaining that the weather sucks. This is sort of like the 1979 Cotton Bowl. That day, Dallas had sleet all during the game. Very miserable conditions. Fast forward to 1980. That day was shirt sleeve weather at the Cotton Bowl. I know because I was there.
So the moral of this story is is that you can never plan on haveing good weather in the Metroplex. If any blame is to be handed out, it is to the weather gods. This was a freak situation. There’s no reason to rule out Arlington as the site of a future Super Bowl. Cowboys Stadium is a domed wonder, not an open-air place where it is traditionaly freezing cold in February. Good luck New Jersey, you’re going to need it in a few years.
Detroit and Atlanta are both doomed. Both had inclement weather during the week leading up to the Super Bowl. Both have never hosted another game since. NY/NJ will never host another one either.
I’m curious about the Cowboys stadium - can fans seated in the upper levels see the field past that gigantic television?
“Death Star” - good one.
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