NFL owners to decide on a Super Bowl in New York

At the NFL meetings Tuesday, team owners will decide whether to take their biggest extravaganza to a place where it has never been.

Think New York in February.

Owners are expected to decide whether to award the first open-air, cold-weather Super Bowl to New York, which is vying for the 2014 game. The Giants and Jets open their new stadium this season. In recent years, the Super Bowl and the week of festivities that precedes it increasingly has become a financing mechanism for new venues.

Commissioner Roger Goodell does not cast a vote on who is awarded the Super Bowl, but has made it clear he supports the New York bid, whose theme is “Make Some History.”

“I think it can be very attractive to the ownership and to the NFL in general, and I continue to believe that,” Goodell said at the March meetings when asked about staging a Super Bowl in the New York area.

Owners could also vote on whether to expand the new overtime rules to encompass the regular season. The rules that were adopted at the March meetings — ones that do not allow the team to win with a field goal on the opening possession — are in place only for postseason games.

There is a strong sentiment among many coaches that the same rules should be used for both the regular season and the playoffs.

Although the subject of Los Angeles is not expected to be a significant part of the meetings, which end Wednesday afternoon, it’s entirely possible that owners will get a briefing on the competing stadium concepts, one in City of Industry and the other next to Staples Center.

sam.farmer@latimes.com