Well you’d better be building a new stadium, or at least kill your state’s discriminatory religious freedom bill. “The Los Angeles region is built to host the Super Bowl”, said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
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Los Angeles hosted the first Super Bowl in 1967 but has not staged the the game since the 1993 edition at the Pasadena Rose Bowl.
Super Bowl LIV (2020), has been awarded to Miami and will be played in the newly renovated Sun Life Stadium.
Next year’s event will take place in Houston while in 2018 Super Bowl LII will be played in the Minnesota Vikings new stadium.
The city of New Orleans lost bids to host Super Bowls twice in the past three years.
Super Bowl LIII in 2019 will be the third Super Bowl that the city of Atlanta has seen.
The NFL ownership met Tuesday afternoon to vote on the locations for Super Bowls 53-55.
Even without New Orleans or Atlanta to contend with, Miami almost lost the Super Bowl LIV competition with Tampa. Out of football’s biggest event for the past two-and-a-half decades, the LA contingent put together a strong bid for its 8 Super Bowl.
“When you look at the law of probability, it’s one out of 100”, Falcons owner Arthur Blank said. He highlighted the $450 million invested by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross to revamp the stadium where his National Football League team now plays.
It being new stadiums – or vastly improved existing ones. The previous two occasions were Super Bowl XXVIII (28) & XXXIV (34). Super Bowl LV will take place at the Rams’ new multibillion-dollar stadium in Inglewood, California – the centerpiece of team owner Stan Kroenke’s relocation proposal. The Saints would dominate Peyton Manning and the Colts to win its first Super Bowl in franchise history. The stadium is now scheduled to open next year.
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The NFL typically awards a Super Bowl to new stadiums in warm-weather cities and new domed stadiums in cold-weather cities.
