Super Bowl Weather: a Great Lure

At this point, does anyone want to hear another word about the Super Bowl? The memories of last Sunday’s event, tantamount to a national holiday, should last all through the year.

But after all that coverage, there was one unusual facet not mentioned in the thousands of words in print or during the television and radio broadcasts describing the wonders of the day.

Leave it to television’s caustic Bill Stout to remind us of an incongruous factor, a part of the impact the game and coincident events have on the millions of television viewers watching the goings-on in sunny Pasadena from their homes and favorite saloons throughout the nation and abroad.

Stout, in his adroit post-game news commentary, touched on the issue--a matter of interest to the housing industry.

He guessed that among the millions of viewers, there might be--say--10,000 who might just decide to shed cold and icy places and head west to the Golden State.

He suggested that if you had been in a cold climate that day, maybe in Vermont, Kansas or Montana, or countless other frigid places, you might very well have braced yourself by saying, “What the dickens am I doing here?” as you looked at a screen filled with perspiring Giants and Broncos, a shirt-sleeve crowd and scantily clad girls during the half-time extravaganza.

Stout believes that thousands of rabid football fans might very well move west to live and that’s where the real estate factor comes into the picture.

What’s more, he indicated, millions more might think about moving west.

This year that suggestion had a double impact, since millions of viewers saw the annual Rose Bowl game of college titans--a Jan. 1 teaser to frigid fans throughout the nation. Does that mean that some of those viewers are already on their way west?

And there’s no respite from this threat and continuing invasion of our turf. Next year’s Super Bowl is scheduled for San Diego.