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We are a little less than a year out from Super Bowl XLVIII in New York/New Jersey and there's been a lot of chatter about the elements and what a big old nasty blizzard could mean for the game. Sports Business Journal reported the other day that the NFL was considering all of its foul-weather options, including the possibility of playing a day early (Super Bowl Saturday!) or pushing it forward into the week. All of that sounds quite panicky. The whole point of playing a Super Bowl in a place where foul weather could happen is that foul weather could happen. You ever hear people in Green Bay talking about moving a game to Saturday? No. Snow at a Super Bowl should be the fantasy. I appreciate that XLVIII is an enormous logistical event (like, you have to make sure ...
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