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.
STAN is a man with an opinion and a penchant for thinking that he is smart. Never heard of him.
Pretty lousy game….
Stan Fischler was a hockey columnist who wrote a book about hockey back in the 80’s
what does he know about football?
and what do you know about football??
“Football” is the red herring in this discussion. It was an unnecessary burden to the NJ taxpayers who subsidized this stadium and all the security etc. Next time the NFL wants to put the Superbowl in “New York”, then ask the NJ State Police, Newark SWAT an surrounding municipalities to run security for them free of charge (this is what happened), tell them to take their party elsewhere.
Any local hoteliers and restaurateurs who thought people were going to flock to their dinky towns in droves deserve what they get.
The only business the SB has in MetLife is if the stars align and it’s Giants / Jets, at which point the SB should be moved to MetLife from wherever it was originally planned…and the rest of the country can piss off: those tickets belong here.
(I am neither a fan of the Giants nor the Jets but would have to root for the Gints in that game).
The State Police and Newark SWAT did nothing “free of charge”. They were paid quite handsomely by the taxpayers of the great state of NJ.
Free of charge as far as the NFL was concerned, #6, you boorish pedant.