T Eli Manning would welcome cold-weather Super Bowl in N.Y.

Eli Manning joined ESPN Radio in New York to discuss New York's chances of winning the bid to host the 2014 Super Bowl at the new Meadowlands Stadium and his thoughts about a cold weather Super Bowl. He also touches on the state of the Giants' offense.

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Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity.

Whether he thinks New York has a chance at getting the Super Bowl in 2014:

Manning: I think so. I think that it would be interesting. It is something different. To bring a Super Bowl to New York, I think it would be pretty fun.

There is no better place to host a huge event and a party than New York City. I think it is attractive to the fans and an excuse for people to come up to New York and enjoy all of the hotels and restaurants and nightlife and everything that the city has to offer.

So from a fan's perspective, I think that it would be very fun; and from a player's and team perspective, obviously the team's would probably stay out in New Jersey where you would have two -- the Giants' and the Jets' -- practice facilities.

The stadium has two home locker rooms. It is not like one team would get the visiting locker room. A lot of times when you play in the Super Bowl, the team with the visiting locker room gets kind of the smaller, worse locker room. In this case you both have state-of-the-art, brand new locker rooms.

So I think there are a lot of attractive facts for fans and both teams.

Whether he would be concerned about bad weather if the Super Bowl were to be played in New York:

Manning: No, because you could be in a playoff game and an NFC Championship game like we were and be in terrible cold weather, and both teams have to deal with it and both teams have to play with it. That is football. Sometimes games are played outside, sometimes you get bad weather, and that is just part of it.

A few years ago, the Colts [and Bears] played in Miami [and it was] supposed to be great weather. It poured and it rained the whole time. I don't know if that is any better than having cold weather. I would rather play in cold weather than pouring down rain for an entire game.

You look at some of the greatest games ever played, the Colts vs. Giants [in the 1958 NFL Championship Game] was played in outdoors and cold weather. That is kind of old school football and what it is all about.

Whether he thinks the offense will be good despite very few tweaks this offseason:

Manning: I think our offense is good. A lot of it is just getting guys back healthy. Getting Brandon (Jacobs) and Ahmad (Bradshaw) back healthy at the running back, getting Hakeem Nicks back at healthy at receiver, Kevin Boss [at tight end]. A lot of these guys, they were playing, but they were playing hurt. We were getting away with it for a while but it kind of just wore over the season.

I think we should be great. We feel very confident in our guys. We have talented, young people all around us. It is just getting everybody to play at their potential.