Giants vs. Patriots: Why This Should Be the Last Super Bowl in Indianapolis

It’s not that Indianapolis won’t be the site of a great Super Bowl Sunday when the New England Patriots and New York Giants match up.

It’s just that Indianapolis is no place to have a bowl, much less a Super Bowl.

Although the weather is supposed to be OK for Sunday—a high of 47 degrees—the fact is that the NFL has gotten lucky.

The temperature in an average year will be between 22-31 degrees, which is no way to treat fans, much less players.

The fact that Indianapolis has a dome to keep out the worst of the weather is no excuse.

The Super Bowl is a week-long experience, and most of it is spent somewhere other than at the field. Just because the NFL got lucky weather-wise this time around is no reason to tempt fate.

And it’s nothing against Indianapolis, per se. There is something that’s just not right about the Super Bowl in a dome.

There should be vetting inside the NFL that says that only cities with decent February weather and no dome should be eligible to serve as hosts for the game.

But I digress—there is just such a tradition that cities with an expected daily average temperature of less than 50 degrees (F) aren’t considered. That’s waived in case of a dome, which is why Minneapolis and the Detroit area (twice) have hosted Super Bowls.

Indianapolis is the fourth, and while it looks like the NFL is getting away with it, the 2014 game will be in MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

The average temperature is in the 30s and there is no roof.

Just being adjacent to New York doesn’t make this a winner. It’s a bad idea.