New York Giants

Giants and Jets reportedly want another New York-New Jersey Super Bowl

Published May. 29, 2016 1:29 p.m. ET

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Back in 2014, the NFL made it through its first cold-weather Super Bowl without a blizzard or bone-chilling temperatures, so naturally its New York-area teams would like to give hosting another go.

Giants co-owner John Mara has told the New York Daily News that the Giants and Jets have informed the NFL they would like MetLife Stadium to be the site for Super Bowl LVI in 2022 or Super Bowl LVII in 2023. Last week, NFL owners voted to give future Super Bowls to Atlanta (2019), Miami (2020) and Los Angeles (2021).

That means MetLife, located in East Rutherford, N.J., will get in line for the next available game if the Giants/Jets interest goes from a “placeholder” for a date – as Mara told the Daily News it is right now – to an official bid. According to the report, in fall 2017 the Super Bowl Advisory Committee will pick which cities will be eligible to bid.

The New York teams might not be talking about a chance at hosting another Super Bowl if things had turned out a little different in Super Bowl XLVII, when the Seahawks beat the Broncos 43-8. The game might have been a blowout, but the early evening game-time temperature was an unseasonably warm 49 degrees. The average low in the New York area for early February is 27 degrees, so avoiding a weather calamity was key in making sure neither players nor fans complained about a ruined experience in the sport’s biggest game.

The question now is whether the NFL will be willing to tempt fate again.