New York Area Breaks ‘Ice Barrier’ as Historic Super Bowl Host
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Isaiah Kacyvenski stood coatless in the celebrating crowd at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium and cried.
Kacyvenski, 36, played linebacker for the Seahawks the last time Paul Allen’s National Football League team reached the Super Bowl. Now a Harvard MBA and biotech executive, he hugged his leaping son, wiped away joyful tears, and proclaimed the New York area’s improbable effort to host the most-important event in U.S. sports outdoors, in winter, a big success.