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02/4 2011

Note To Super Bowl Media This Weekend: Enough About The Damn Weather

Posted by Dan Levy.

If you’ve been following the Super Bowl run-up as closely as I have, you’ve noticed that everyone in Dallas is talking about one thing: the weather. It’s cold. It’s icy. It’s cold and icy. And windy and snowy and cold and icy and SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT THE WEATHER YOU ARE AT THE SUPER BOWL.

(Takes deep breath. Continues.)

The Twitpics of your hotel rooftop were cute on Tuesday and there was a time early Wednesday when the ice storm was causing rolling blackouts, creating an actual modicum of news, in that the people who are at the Super Bowl to cover the game may not have had enough power to file their stories, talk on their shows or, gasp, surf the internet.

Today, there’s actual news about the weather as people have been getting hit by sheets of snow and ice falling off the stadium, at least one person critically injured. So by all means, cover that. It’s a terrible situation and it warrants hard-news coverage.

The rest of you? The sportswriters there to cover the game who have loaded our Twitter and Facebook streams with photo after photo of PARKING LOTS?  We get it. It’s cold. It’s snowy. There is ice.

Guess what, Super Bowl credential holders? It’s COLD HERE TOO. It’s SNOWY HERE TOO. There is ICE HANGING DOWN FROM MY HOUSE, too.

Plus, it’s cold and snowy and icy and windy in Chicago and in Boston and in Washington D.C. and, heck, even in Arizona (yes, the golf media is bitching too).

It’s cold everywhere. You know why? Because it’s FEBRUARY.

So, here’s a quick bit of advice for you this weekend. Just focus on the game. Write about the game. Tweet about the game. Then, when you get home, in 15 years, you can sit your kids down and tell them about that time it snowed in Dallas.

Kids, did I ever tell you the story about how I met your mother? I was covering Super Bowl 45 in Dallas and it was cold. I mean it was really cold and there were no plows anywhere and our police-escort could barely get down the highway in front of our luxury bus while the rest of the motorists had to move to the shoulder. Wanna see some photos? Let me see if I can log in to my old Plixi account…

Anyway, have I mentioned how cold it was? And have I told you about how the weather in Dallas made everyone worry about a Super Bowl that was played in New York three years later even though one had absolutely nothing to do with the other because the only real issue with a New York Super Bowl is the fact that it’s an open-air stadium as the NFL has hosted Super Bowls in tons of cold-weather cities like Minneapolis and Indianapolis and, whoo boy, did I mention Dallas? Back in Super Bowl 45 it sure was cold. And icy…and snowy…

So your Aunt Robin was writing for Bleacher Report at the time and she introduced me to a woman who was writing for Fanhouse. What’s Fanhouse…

So yeah, have fun this weekend. AT THE SUPER BOWL. And don’t forget your jacket in the press box.

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  1. Kevin McGuire
    02/4 2011

    Bravo! Was thinking the same thing the past 48 hours.

  2. Gunaxin Links
    02/4 2011

    Note To Super Bowl Media This Weekend: Enough About The Damn Weather…

    This article has been featured on Gunaxin Links…

  3. Andrew Garda
    02/4 2011

    Brilliant. Next to Kissing Suzy Kolber.com’s take down of a Yahoo writer, this was my favorite complaining about complaining about the weather.

  4. Ted O.
    02/4 2011

    First time to the site. Wow. Great first post to stumble across! Very funny and captures how I’ve felt the past few days.

    Bonus points for the ‘How I Met Your Mother’ reference. My screen name is usually Ted because my GD roommates think I look like Ted Mosby. Those motherfuckers…..

  5. Ted O.
    02/4 2011

    By the way, it looks like Dan Wetzel stole your column. He posted his 30 minutes ago…
    http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=dw-superweatherdallas020411

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