# Why would they ever hold the SuperBowl in an outdoor statium? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 30, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125 "2014-01-30T12:33:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125/61 "2014-02-01T04:29:48Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Football \*should \*be played in the icy mud. Tese kids today, mollycoddled nancy-boys each and every one of them. Back in my day, if we broke a leg playing football we played the game out hopping on one foot. > > But you tell that to one of these divas today and they don’t believe you. “Oh, it’s raining! Put a roof over the field! Oh, I scratched myself! Call the team doctor! Call my lawyer to re-negotiate my contract before I cross the goal line!” > > Pitiful. Oh, I know what you mean. I once saw a game where the kickoff return runner broke his leg. It was a real bad break, too. I’m confident in saying that because the leg bone actually stuck out from his leg (it was yellow). I went over to offer him some condolences. He said, “Oh, don’t worry about me. As soon as I get to the hospital, they’re gonna give me a shot of morphine. A similar thing happened to me once before and after fifteen minutes I told them that I was still in a lot of pain and they gave me a second shot. Two shots of morphine. I was flying for the rest of the day and all through the night”. Apparently, he really loved morphine. I have often wondered if he wouldn’t have been a lot better off getting some in another way. Seems like a huge amount of trouble. All the pain of the broken leg plus months of recovery from the broken leg. And the worst part is that he seemed to love morphine so much that I figured he was destined to wind up a morphine addict or, even worse - a Heroin addict. That must be a pretty bad exchange. 24 hours of feeling good followed by a lifetime of opiate addiction? Does not seem like a good trade to me. Seemed like a terrible trade. ---
**Author:** ![kurtisokc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kurtisokc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurtisokc)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125/62 "2014-02-02T21:50:27Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > The 49ers were in it (won, in fact) when the Super Bowl was in Stanford Stadium. That’s not their home stadium but it’s the same metro area. The only other instance where a team participated in a Super Bowl in its home territory was 1980, when the game was played at the Rose Bowl and featured the Los Angeles Rams. However, to date, no team has ever played in a Super Bowl in its home stadium. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125/63 "2014-02-04T03:56:45Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > There isn’t one. I suppose you could say that the last two Super Bowls, both of which were played indoors, had higher viewership totals than any other since the eighties, but that ignores the fact that there’s been a rising trend in viewership since 2000. Otherwise, in the last fifteen or so years, you couldn’t pick the indoor games from the outdoor games by looking at viewership totals. > > Now, if viewership dips this year there might be an argument. Viewership didn’t drop, but rose…preliminary figures are saying last night’s game was the most watched Super Bowl in history. So, not evidence at all for the claim that viewers prefer indoor Super Bowls. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125/64 "2014-02-04T05:26:46Z")
> [@](#): > > My question is why would they hold a game played in February in an outdoor stadium when there are plenty of covered stadiums all over the country? The 101st Grey Cup was played in a balmy -1 C last November - lovely football weather. Football is an outdoor sport. (The western Final, the previous week in Calgary, was played in about -15 C. Dress warmly, and you didn’t even notice it.) ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125/65 "2014-02-04T05:29:30Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Viewership didn’t drop, but rose…preliminary figures are saying last night’s game was the most watched Super Bowl in history. So, not evidence at all for the claim that viewers prefer indoor Super Bowls. I’m also told that there were few if any empty seats at the game itself, and that ticket sales on the secondary market were quite robust (meaning not only “going for a hell of a lot more than I can pay” but “going for a hell of a lot more than face value”). Apparently, it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-they-ever-hold-the-superbowl-in-an-outdoor-statium/680125/67 "2016-12-19T18:30:05Z")
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