Super Bowl...Super Weather

Well it's Super Bowl Sunday and while those of you in the Mid-Atlantic dig out, Florida is looking good today and the weather in South Florida will be nice for the Big Game. At kickoff the weather in Ft Laurderdale will be Clear with a light Northerly wind and a temperature in the Upper 50s.

Usually the venue for the Super Bowl is in cities where the weather won't impact the outcome of the game. But in 2007 when the Colts last played in the Super Bowl it was also in South Florida and it rained. The most rain ever during a Super Bowl...nearly an inch. And... the only time out of 10 Super Bowls hosted in Miami/ South FLA that it has rained.

Once domed stadiums were built, the NFL saw the advantage to moving the Super Bowl inside and avoid and weather problems. 17 of the 43 Super Bowls that have been played have been contested in domed stadiums. This is a good thing considering how bad the ice storm was in Atlanta when they played the Super Bowl there in 2000. At game time in Detroit, home of Super Bowl XVI, the outside temperature was 16 degrees.

So, just looking at the games played outside, I would have to say the weather for Super Bowl VI between the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins had the worst weather. The Game was played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans and the Kick-Off temperature was 39 with overcast skies and windy conditions. Two Years earlier, Super Bowl IV was also played at Tulane Stadium under a tornado watch.

Before the Super Bowl was conceived, pitting the AFL(AFC) and NFL(NFC) champions, there was the NFL Championship. That game was not played at a neutral, fair-weather stadium, it was typically hosted by the team with the best record. on December 31, 1967 Green Bay Packers hosted the Dallas Cowboys for the NFL Championship. The game was played with a temperature of -13 and a wind chill temperature of -46...ah that's when men were men and they played football outside. :)

Enjoy the game...don't eat too much.

P.S. Here is some Super Bowl trivia you can use to stump your office with Monday. Four Colleges have have produced three different starting Super Bowl QBs. Alabama: Starr, Namath, Stabler...Notre Dame: Lamonica, Theisman, Montana...California: Kapp, Morton, Ferragamo(transferred to Nebraska) and Purdue: Griese, Dawson and tonight's starter Drew Brees.