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STAN FISCHLER COLUMN: Nothing positive to say about this ‘Stupid Bowl’

A Broncos fan reacts to a Seahawks touchdown while watching the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII in Denver

STAN FISCHLER COLUMN: Nothing positive to say about this ‘Stupid Bowl’

With a week’s worth of 20-20 hindsight, we can unequivocally label last Sunday night’s vaudeville show in East Rutherford, New Jersey what it was, The Stupid Bowl.

Except if you are a fanatical Seahawks fan, everything about the event ranked from ill-planned to just plain dumb.

Start with the zany promise that New Jersey Transit could even come close to handling the 33,000 fans leaving MetLife Stadium.

Belated memo to NJ Transit dreamers: this was not a bar mitzvah.

Let’s face it, the idea of tossing what should have been a purely New York City event in a relatively small New Jersey town was as colossal a mistake as the Broncos game plan.

Forget about the fact that New Jersey never should have allowed the Giants and Jets to camp at MetLife Stadium unless the Jints and Jets changed their name to New Jersey Giants and New Jersey Jets.

How much phony can geography get when a team calls the Garden State its home but puts another state’s name on its logo? Stupid as in Stupid Bowl.

Boy did these promoters sell New Jersey hoteliers, restaurateurs and other businessmen a bill of goods.

They promised sold out hotels, booming eateries and tangential bonanzas that were as fictitious as

Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

https://www.dailyfreeman.com/sports/20140208/stan-fischler-column-nothing-positive-to-say-about-this-stupid-bowl