Costco offering big-ticket Super Bowl deals starting at $13,999

There’s Super Bowl packages and ticket deals all over the Internet up for sale these days, but for some reason the package offered by Costco seems as funny as their giant jars of mayonnaise. 

Besides the bulk items, and next to the Blanco Diamond Sigranit® sinks, Costco is offering all-inclusive deals with tickets, hotel rooms, and everything else you need for a two-person weekend at the big game starting at $13,999.99.

Would you expect anything smaller?

Here's the super-sized deal:

The vibrant energy and excitement of New York City awaits you with this incredible four night package, including 2 tickets to football’s ultimate championship game that will be played at Metlife Stadium in Rutherford, NJ. Your Super Bowl game package is complete with your 2 game tickets and accommodations at the Westin Hotel, New York - Times Square, tickets to the Taste of the NFL (one of the premier events of the weekend), roundtrip transportation from the hotel to all the game day activity including an exclusive pregame party aboard a privately chartered yacht (Hornblower Hybrid) featuring guest speaker Archie Manning while cruising the harbor and seeing the sights of the city as they can only be seen on the waterways.

Pick me up a gross of Nathan's hotdogs and a 5-gallon jar of mustard while you're there.

MetLife Stadium game time weather report: Cold with snow showers!

Roger Goodell has been saying that the 2014 New Jersey-New York Super Bowl will be a barometer for other open-air stadiums in cold weather cities to host future Super Bowl games or  make Jersey's own Joe Flacco stop whining.

According to Goodell — comfortably from the 70-degrees New Orleans temps and climate-controlled Mercedes-Benz Superdome — he hopes temperatures at next year's Super Bowl game at MetLife Stadium "are not extreme."

Well, let's say we get a head start for next year's big game and pretend it was held in swamps of Jersey tonight — fans better forewarned to bring their parkas, boots and wear long johns under their team colors.

After a light dusting of snow this morning, The Weather Channel predicts temperatures of about 30-degrees at the opening kick-off and a few snow showers during the game.

By the time one team is holding up the Lombardi trophy, the temps will drop to 28-degrees but it will feel like an arctic 21-degrees out by Paterson-Plank Road.

Romantics may find the cold and the snow reminiscent of the great NFL and AFL Championship games before the first Super Bowl.  Warm weather fans might just wish they were back in the bars of Bourbon Street or the beaches in Miami.

Remember, those old games were played during the daytime, before television networks took over the show.

As someone who has spent many nights shivering through a Sunday night Giants game up in the nose-freeze section, let me tell you it gets friggin' cold out in the Meadowlands — especially when the wind churns up and they shut down the bars at halftime.

Hopefully, visitors to New York next year will just chalk up a cold spell as part of the Super Bowl experience.

The worst part of the cold weather is that it probably means the singing acts will all be lip-synching.  Sorry Beyonce.

Pinstripe Bowl turns into a Winter Wonderland

It's definitely football weather in the Bronx. West Virginia, Syracuse kick off the New Era @pinstripebowl at 3:15 ET: twitter.com/Yankees/status…
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) December 29, 2012

Almost 40,000 fans showed up yesterday at Yankee Stadium to watch Syracuse defeat West Virginia, 38-14, in the third annual New Era Pinstripe Bowl and — while Orange and Mountaineers fans were bursting with school pride before the game — stadium groundskeepers were busting a sweat to prepare the field.

When you think of the House That Jeter Built, you usually envision sultry summer nights with old No. 2 at shortstop — not a snowman filling in the gap between second and third.  Although there have been some flurries on more than a few of the early April Opening days.

The New York Yankees must have been pretty impressed with the job the crew did.  The team's  official Twitter feed provided this photo of the field one hour before the game Saturday afternoon and showed the amazing job the grounds crew did before the opening kickoff.

The Pinstripe Bowl is the only college bowl game played in a presumably cold weather site but snow is usually a rarity around the holidays in New York City.

If Saturday's game looked like a throwback to the Army and New York Giants home games, which ripped up the old Yankee Stadium turf, it wasn't a problem yesterday.

One guy who would agree that the groundskeepers did a good job was Syracuse running back Prince-Tyson Gulley who had 264 total yards in his team's victory.

The grounds crew at MetLife Stadium might want to take notes from Saturday's game in preperation for when Super Bowl XLVIII comes to New Jersey on Feb. 2, 2014.

There's a good chance the Meadowlands could see some of the white stuff that day.

NFL Experience could join Super Bowl in New Jersey

New Jersey is already hosting the 2014 Super Bowl, but could also be home to the "NFL Experience," the interactive family attraction that has become a major draw during the Super Bowl festivities.

While Super Bowl XLVIII is being billed as a "New York Super Bowl," the fact remains that the game will be played in the $1.6 billion MetLife Stadium— comfortably situated in the swamps of Jersey.  Now, it looks like the  Garden State may take over most of the weeklong activities leading up to the big game.

It's sort of like the Tebow-Sanchez rivalry of states.

At a meeting of 250 business and community leaders Friday, Rich Petriccione, senior vice president of philanthropy and community relations for the Meadowlands Super Bowl Host Committee— whew, that's some title— said that the Javits Center in Manhattan originally was expected  to be home to the NFL Experience.


But Petriccione said the league later found out Javits was already booked for annual conventions in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 2,1014 Super Bowl game.

"So we're hoping to change the paradigm— maybe move the NFL Experience to New Jersey," he said at a luncheon in Hackensack.  "Or we could have the NFL Experience moving around, in Long Island in Westchester, in different boroughs [of NYC], and obviously different counties out there.  Stay tuned for that."


Petricionne said the group has looked at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City— among other places.  Maybe they can finally get some use of that empty $3.7 million headache— formerly known as the Xanadu Mall— sitting right next to MetLife Stadium now.


At this year's Super Bowl in Indianapolis, the NFL Experience took up 500,000 square feet at the Indiana Convention Center and drew over a quarter million visitors— most who weren't even going to the game.


The league-sponsored event is a way for fans near the Super Bowl site to feel like a part of the game since most of the tickets go to NFL sponsors, media and insiders.