“I believe that the metroplex and AT&T Stadium are well-positioned to host another Super Bowl sometime after the latest wave of new stadium openings”, he said. The Rams will play at the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium until a new stadium opens in Inglewood.
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The league, on the other hand, is busy with its annual spring meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina with the league’s owners.
Atlanta and L.A. are building stadiums at costs of more than $1 billion – estimates have the L.A. construction exceeding $2.6 billion as the world’s most expensive stadium.
The Rams have returned to Los Angeles, and now the Super Bowl is coming back, too.
Atlanta, which will open Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2017, will host Super Bowl LIII. Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contributed $450 million to a modern makeover of its current Sun Life Stadium. The most recent edition of the game was held in San Francisco’s two-year-old Levi’s Stadium. So with the game returning to Miami in 2020, we could be seeing the Colts make a return to the Super Bowl.
The economic impact of Super Bowl XLV was estimated at $611.7 million. “The Super Bowl takes us from national attention to worldwide notoriety”. Los Angeles was in the running for both 2020 and 2021, but the later year made more sense from a financial standpoint. Atlanta beat out New Orleans for the game on the fourth ballot on Tuesday.
New Orleans and Tampa also were bidding to host future Super Bowls. The NFL typically awards franchises that have invested into rebuilding their stadiums and infrastructure with the opportunity to host one of the years biggest events.
The ecstatic Miami Dolphins owner said “the only thing better than winning the 2020 Super Bowl (bid) is playing in it and winning”.
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This will be Atlanta’s third time to host the big game, while Miami has had it 10 times. “So I think an extra year might be good”.
