T Bring the Super Bowl to new Jets, Giants stadium in 2014

The National Football League has staged the Super Bowl in 15 warm locations. Now it should try a place that's hot: New York.

We got the fun. We got the glamour. We got entertainments the likes of which you will not find if you combine the attractions of all the venues that hosted the 44 previous classics, even if you count in Tempe and Jacksonville.

We're the only city that supports two NFL teams - rabidly - and those teams have been around since the earliest days of the leagues that spawned today's mega-enterprise.

Did we mention they are called the Giants and the Jets? And did we mention that they are opening a $1.6 billion stadium from which the NFL will draw enormous television revenue?

The organizations yesterday put in a bid for Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. Good for them for being as true to the game as natural sod.

Recall that football is a fall-into-winter sport. The league takes pride in playing in all conditions shy of avalanche. Except, that is, for the four short hours of a single game every year, when the NFL accommodates what the lords of the game believe are the creature comforts of faux fans.

Those who would shrink from participating in a global phenomenon because they would have to leave their Hawaiian shirts at home, along with the risk of skin cancer, are weenies undeserving of the privilege of attendance. True football lovers by the millions, including from these parts, would rush to take their places.

Then, too, the Super Bowl is about far more than the game. People come to play off the field. And there's no better place for them to eat, drink and be merry than New York.

So, come on, NFL. Keep faith with the game and party like it's, well, 2014. Warm's not good enough. Hot's the thing.