Two weeks from today two professional football teams are going to play the Super Bowl in an outdoor stadium.

No big deal, right? Yes, except that this particular stadium is in New Jersey, where it gets pretty cold in the winter. Make that very cold.

I should add that the place is known to get a good bit of snow, rain, hail, sleet, slush, high wind … am I missing anything?

I don’t worry about the teams and the athletes. The football players get paid a lot of money to play a game that occasionally gets played outdoors in the snow, such as in Green Bay, Cincy, Cleveland, Denver, Chicago, Buffalo, Foxboro and, oh yeah, New Jersey. It gets nasty as well in Seattle, but the culprit there usually is rain and wind.

OK, I so worry little about the athletes.

What’s going to happen, though, to the halftime show that has become as big an attraction to some as the game itself? Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are slated to headline the halftime extravaganza. I’m not much of a fan of either of those acts, but if the snow/sleet/wind disrupt the game, doesn’t it stand to reason that the halftime show is going to suffer as well?

http://fansided.com/2014/01/11/super-bowl-halftime-show-2014-red-hot-chili-peppers-confirmed/

What would they do if they can’t perform?

Woe it will be to the Super Bowl and to the brain trust that decided to stage the Biggest Game of the Year outdoors in the Snow Belt.

Let’s all pray for good weather, OK?