I understand that the pain of the Packers loss to the New York Giants is still fresh, but let’s put away the hate mail you are sending to Eli Manning and move on. After all, you can always watch pretty boy Tom Brady completely trounce the lesser Manning in Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz. on Feb. 3.

Next year maybe Brett Favre in his god-like greatness will manage to take this team of nobody’s into Tampa, Fla. for Super Bowl XLIII. But that’s neither here nor there.

What I really want you to see is where these Super Bowls are being played. Super Bowl XL was in Detroit, while Super Bowl XLI was in Miami, this year it’s in Glendale and next year it’s in Tampa.

Don’t get me wrong, I love warm weather too, but here’s my question.

Why can’t Lambeau Field ever host the Super Bowl? Did Vince Lombardi do something before he died to make the National Football League too miffed to play the biggest game of the year in Green Bay? Let’s examine this a little further.

I could state the obvious reasons; it’s too cold, Green Bay is boring and full of hicks, it might snow and ruin the game, etc., etc. and etc. Really, there are plenty of excuses that the NFL gives the Packer Nation as to why Lambeau Field will never host the Super Bowl, but that’s just what they are: excuses.

I went on weatherchannel.com and looked at some of the weather projections for February in Green Bay. On the 1st, that’s two days before the 3rd for you math majors out there, it’s supposed to be 26 degrees and partly cloudy all day, dropping down to 15 degrees by sundown. Now for those people that live outside Wisconsin, that might seem a little cold, but to us normal people, that’s when we stop wearing shorts and maybe put on a coat. However, that’s just one day.

It is supposed to warm up during that week, getting up to 40 by Sunday, otherwise known as Super Bowl Sunday. Forty degrees, with no snow is too cold for these big 275+ pound football players? Tell those whiners to go eat some more Chunky Soup and stop crying about the cold.

I opened up my trusty Farmers Almanac from 2005 and the population of Green Bay is 226,178 in the metropolitan area, most of that being people between the ages of 25-55. I also looked up Glendale, Arizona. It stands at 224,969 people, but most of those people are between the ages of 35-65.

So, Green Bay is a larger city with younger people, and Glendale is a smaller city filled with older people. Anyone else see the problem here?

Look, I can sit here and pick apart why Lambeau Field deserves to host the Super Bowl all day, but that would just be really boring. Instead, I’m going to give you the number one reason why Lambeau will never host a Super Bowl, which is the same reason why they should.

The Green Bay Packers have won more championships than any other football team in NFL history with 12. The history of Lambeau Field is one of the greatest in all of football.

The NFL picks stadiums that don’t have that attachment. What great things have happened in Glendale, Ariz. that is pertinent to football? What about Miami or Tampa? No team would want to play a game as big as the Super Bowl with the weight of Lambeau Field weighing on your shoulders. Players don’t even like to play there in the regular season because of that stigma.

It’s the fans, the field, the No. 4, and all those reasons. That is why Lambeau Field is both the most deserving, and the last choice for hosting the Super Bowl.

But that’s just my opinion.

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