Rex Ryan guaranteed a Super Bowl today — not for his team, but for New York City.
With the 2014 game to be awarded by the NFL next week, the Jets head coach maintained his usual high level of confidence when predicting the metropolitan area will win out.
“I don’t see how it’s not played here,” Ryan said today after a Jets offseason practice.
“You’ve got the best city in the world, why wouldn’t you want to hold the Super Bowl there?”
Ryan said the location, the state-of-the-art stadium and the fact that two teams (the Jets and Giants) are bidding all outweigh the likelihood of frigid temperatures in February.
In fact, Ryan maintained that cold-weather games are among the most remembered in league history, mentioning the 1967 Ice Bowl between Dallas and Green Bay specifically.
“This game should be played here, and obviously it would be a great Super Bowl,” Ryan said.
New Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes — MVP of Super Bowl XLIII when with the Steelers — disagreed, saying it should not be played in cold weather.
“I like a Super Bowl where the elements don’t have any factor in the game,” Holmes told ESPN.com. “I would prefer to keep all Super Bowls somewhere in the South. I don’t want to play anywhere where it’s cold. We play in it enough during the season.”
The NFL will announce the host for Super Bowl XLVIII next Tuesday at its spring meeting. Tampa and Miami are the other contenders.
With newyorkjets.com