Sports Trivia

[la_samtyr]

Ok, I am hoping that someone will know the answer to this. I should know it (I think!) but I am drawing just a big blank. :( I've tried looking it up but it's just too vague for me to narrow down.

Was there a Super Bowl that was played in the snow? I seem to remember reading about one that was very low-scoring, mostly due to the bad weather and for some reason I think it was in an NHL city. (No, I'm not thinking of one of the college 'Snow Bowls' either--I did manage to look those up). Any suggestions?

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[mobody.livejournal.com]

Quote from an article I found:

according to current NFL rules, host cities must have an average outdoor temperature of at least 50 degrees on the date of the proposed Super Bowl. For Feb. 4, when the 2007 is scheduled, the average temperature in East Rutherford, N.J., home to Giants Stadium, is 31 degrees. If the weather is too cold, northern cities must offer a domed stadium, as Minneapolis and Detroit do, the only markets north of the Mason-Dixon Line to ever host a Super Bowl.

League owners, though, can modify those rules if the reasons are compelling enough. And so far, the motivations for the move have been presented as either a goodwill gesture for the New York metropolitan area in the wake of last year's devastating terrorist attack, or a strategy for returning the NFL to the days when real men played smashmouth football, rain, sleet, snow or shine.


So I think the answer is pretty much, no.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm... maybe I'm thinking of a playoff game then? It was one of the *early* ones, iirc. With all of the current SB saturation, you'd think they mention it. Again. Or at least *once*.

[crazies.livejournal.com]

I know that there was an Ice Bowl, I want to say that was Super Bowl I, played in Green Bay. Don't know if there was snow there or not.

For the billions of times I've watched that ESPN show where they discuss past Super Bowls, I should really know this.

Actually, I wikid and that wasn't a Super Bowl, just an NFL Championship game, preceeded SBI by less than a month. Intriguing game nonetheless, my favourite to watch on that ESPN show, lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Championship_Game,_1967

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Considering that there is no other programming on ESPN channels other than SB XLI (there is but not by *much*), you'd think they'd mention it, if only so they can tie-in a Weather Channel special on the "meteorological elements affecting the outcome of the SB".