The game was GREAT.
The outcome was GREAT.
The fact that Steeler fans had a miserable time was GREAT.
But, lets be honest. This Super Bowl was a fiasco. How could they not have the stadium seating ready? Why werent plows and salt trucks called in from neighboring cities? Its the damn Super Bowl.
Very few, that Ive seen, cared for the half time show. Yes, the music is not what its all about, but its the biggest entertainment event of the year - excluding the World Cup - and you know a good show when youve seen one - U2 and Prince.
Clearly, you've never been to Texas. I live here, now, after 24 years in New England. I moved south to get away from the snow/ice. Let me explain something to you. When it snows or ices, even lightly, this place all but shuts down. It's a running joke between myself and many of the people who come from real winter climates like New England, Northern New York, Canada, and Wisconsin.
Dallas is lucky if it has 50 trucks that can plow/salt. People here don't have snow plow hitches on their trucks.. You'd be lucky to find 200 trucks that can plow/salt in the DFW Metroplex, which is about 3500 square miles has probably 500K miles of roadway. And that covers large cities like Irving, Arlington, and Fort Worth. So, where are they supposed to get these plows from when they are all tied up with their own issues?? I'm fairly certain that in the same area of Massachusetts, you'd find about 750-1000 DPW trucks as well as an equal number of people with plows of their own..
As for salting the roads, this area isn't like New England where the towns stockpile 1000s of tons of dirt and salt to throw down during a storm. I'd bet that most places (if they have salt/dirt at all) only have enough for 1-2 storms.. Not 4-5. And last week, we had 3 in one week come through..
Now, you add in the fact that snow/ice this late into the year is very uncommon for the DFW Metroplex, and it's very easy to see how they got caught off-guard by everything. Especially since, in the 3 previous years that I'd been here, the coldest it got was about 30.. and that was for one day. It's been years since they've had more than 2 weeks of below freezing weather. So, when it's snowed this late, it's lasted maybe a few hours.. Not a few days..
Should they have planned for a week long snow event? Yes, the SB committee should have made certain that Arlington, and the surrounding counties (Dallas, Tarrant, etc) would be prepared for such an event because of Murphy's law.
As for the seating, well, that's Jerry for you since he and his cronies were the ones who said they could easily fit in all those temporary seats.
