Jordan’s Serial: 49ers given 50th Super Bowl honour
Anyone who reads my weekly foray into the NFL would have seen last week’s piece about the fans of the San Francisco 49ers being in a good place right now.
Well their stock just got bigger with the announcement on Tuesday that they will host the big 50th anniversary Super Bowl bash in the brand spanking new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
NFL owners voted that the new state-of-the-art venue would be a suitable place to hold Super Bowl L, beating out Houston and Miami. All was not lost for fans in the Texas area as Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans will host Super Bowl LI. Miami ending up as the ultimate loser in this bidding war. Despite losing out in the battle to host the NFL showpiece event, the silver lining could be that not one team has yet participated in their own Super Bowl, so the Dolphins will be looking to have the last laugh on either (if not both) of these occasions.
Of course before these events the Super Bowl travels to New York for the first time ever next February, in what could be the first snow finale, and then in 2015 the NFL world goes out to Glendale, Phoenix for Super Bowl XLIX.
GETTING DRAFTY IN MAY
The NFL and the NFL Players Association are working on a deal that would see the annual draft move to May instead of its traditional April slot. They have also considered a decision to start the league year earlier with the NFL Combine pushed back, but these are just early thoughts at this stage.
The May draft would be on a year’s trial but could become permanent if its seen as a viable option for all. There is a more humble reason for the move to happen next year. Radio City Hall, the venue of the draft, is playing host to the Radio City Rockettes show, “The Spring Spectacular”, and is scheduled for late April which is the time that all college hopefuls have their NFL dreams fulfilled or dashed.
FROM BROKEN HAND TO BREAKING RECORDS
Calvin “Megatron” Johnson has revealed that his record breaking season in 2012 was hampered by not one, but three broken fingers.
The Detroit Lions wide receiver that broke NFL legend Jerry Rice’s single season yards record, when he went for 1,964, was playing through some serious pain to earn the accolade. Most players will endure some kind of injury that means they will have to play through some pain to get through game day, so this is hardly game shattering news.
The thing is, a wide-out’s hands and fingers are his very bread and butter, and to break the long-standing record was simply amazing, now upon learning that he did so with just seven healthy digits for a lengthy period shows that his mental and physical toughness was tested on every single play. Let it be noted now that his toughness and durability should never be questioned again.
