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Despite having won the Super Bowl six times, the Pittsburgh Steelers have never seen a Super Bowl hosted in their very own Steel City. Visit Pittsburgh’s Joe McGrath wants to put an end to that, and he believes that if the NFL can put a Super Bowl in New Jersey, then they can put one anywhere. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, the NFL doesn’t share McGrath’s Waffle House theory.

McGrath, who is the president of the city’s tourism agency, cites the league’s willingness to host the Super Bowl in the open-air Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey as an indicator that more northern cities without domed stadiums could host the NFL championship game in cold weather. Traditionally, the Super Bowl has only been played in cities like Detroit, Indianapolis and Minneapolis because they have domed facilities conducive to people not wanting to freeze their titties off.

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“I’d be more than happy to put in a bid for it,” McGrath told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “I tried to convince the Steelers before they built the new stadium to put a dome on it. Frankly they said, ‘Our fans won’t go for that.’ I said, ‘But we can get a Super Bowl.’ They said, ‘Eh, we get enough.’”

“Certainly the Rooneys and the Steelers’ organization and those ins with the National Football League — it can happen,” he said. “I wouldn’t put it out of mind.”

The next four Super Bowl locations are Cowboys Stadium (2011), Lucas Oil Stadium (2012), Louisiana Superdome (2013) and the Meadowlands Stadium in 2014. If you’re keeping count, that’s three domes, including Dallas, Indianapolis and New Orleans. And you can bet your Iron City beer that San Diego, Miami, San Francisco, and Atlanta are going to be lining up for 2015 and on, so McGrath isn’t exactly undertaking a simple task.

However, Pittsburgh should be an ideal owners choice for a Super Bowl destination for the sake of good player behavior, because even Ben Roethlisberger has to leave the state to bang girls.