Bringing the Super Bowl to (Chilly) Philly? It Could Happen!

Bring forth the beer and wings (even the vegan ones!) – it’s officially Super Bowl weekend. While everyone is decking the halls with either Seahawks blue or Broncos orange and gearing up for the snacks, the commercials, and the parties, the Eagles are prepping to study the big game closely… and not for the reasons you might assume. The team’s management wants to bring a future Super Bowl to Lincoln Financial Field, and they’ll be watching how things turn out on Sunday in New Jersey. If this year’s cold-weather ‘Bowl goes off without a hitch – or yet another deluge of snow, courtesy of the polar vortex – team management is confident that they’ll be able to lure visitors to Philly. This year will mark the first-ever outdoor Super Bowl in a “cold weather city,” but hopefully it won’t be the last.

Philadelphia Eagles are hoping to lure a future Super Bowl to the Lincoln Financial Field.

Eagles prez Don Smolenski announced this week that the team wants to make a bid for a future Super Bowl. Lincoln Financial Field turned 10 last year, and it has never hosted the big game. The stadium is in the midst of a two-year, big-money renovation that’s bringing WiFi, more seats, fancier concessions, and HD video boards to the Eagles’ nest. Such upgrades are par for the course in an age of rapidly-changing technology and constantly-higher stakes in the facility coolness race, but the team is making no secret of the fact that they want to make Lincoln shine for its potential close-up. Smolenski lauded Philadelphia as “a world-class city with world-class facilities, and it’s a great sports town.”

If visitors can deal with the January chill, there’s no doubt that we could show them a great time. Fingers crossed that the weather behaves itself Sunday night, since Philly will be keeping an (E)agle eye on the show!