[sportscurmudgeon]

skinsguy:

Be just a tad realistic here. Jerry Jones has THREE Super Bowl rings since he bought the team in the late 1980s. The Redskins have ONE and Danny Boy has NONE. Jerry Jones has already done a whole lot more than sniffed a Super Bowl; he's already won three of them in about 15 years of ownership. Danny Boy needs to get cracking if he wants to match that.

What JJ wants is to be the "host" of the Super Bowl who gets all the perks and all the publicity as "the host". So does Danny Boy in the worst way. But until Danny Boy gets a roof on his playpen, it ain't gonna happen in DC in February. JJ knows that the hole in the Texas roof precludes a Super Bowl there and so he used that as part of his leverage to get Arlington TX to cough up about $400 - 500M in a bond issue to cost share with him a new stadium; it will be "Super Bowl Certified"; Paul Tagliabue has already said that.

The Super Bowl is never as big a spectacle in "northern cities" as it is in the "sunny climes". It will be in Detroit next year and you can stand by to listen for the complaints from the media and the sponsors. The "big guys" go to the Super Bowl for parties and receptions and golf and that kind of stuff. There will no golfing outings in Detroit next February - just as there would be no golf outings in DC in February. The NFL will tolerate a "northern tier" Super Bowl once every 8 or 9 years, but the stadium has to have a lid.