Hoosier daddy: Big Ten Championship Game site thoughts

As for the choice to play the Big Ten title game indoors, I'm a born-and-bred Chicagoan and Bears fan that has been to many games in December at Soldier Field, so I'm well-qualified to tell you that brutally cold weather football is f*cking overrated. You'll get no romanticism from me on missing out on supposed Big Ten football weather. With the wind off of the lake at Soldier Field on December evenings, it generally feels a good 20 or 30 degrees colder than even the coldest November daytime football game in the Midwest. The only other people that could possibly understand how extra cold it is in that atmosphere are those that have been to night games in Green Bay. Since the Big Ten and Fox are always going to want to play the conference championship game in prime time, it pretty much demanded for an indoor venue.

Finally, I've got to give kudos to Indianapolis for bringing in its big political and business guns, such as Gov. Mitch Daniels, for its presentation to the Big Ten. Whatever one may think of Indiana and Indianapolis, they definitely took the conference seriously, whereas it appeared that Chicago sent Benny the Bull in its uncoordinated effort.

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