The NFL announced on Tuesday during their spring meeting that the city of Los Angeles will host the 2021 Super Bowl – and all the traffic, celebs, and chaos that comes with it!
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Dolphins owner Stephen Ross was clearly relieved to have been involved in a winning Super Bowl bid yesterday, especially after it was mentioned he sunk $450 million of his own money into the project.
It will mark the 8th time that the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California will play host to the Super Bowl.
The NFL has been known to reward the cities with newly constructed stadiums, so most football fans anticipated an Atlanta victory in 2019.
The NFL typically awards a Super Bowl to new stadiums in warm-weather cities and new domed stadiums in cold-weather cities. Miami has put more than $350-million in renovations to its stadium and beat out Tampa for the 2020 game.
Minneapolis will host a Super Bowl in 2018 with a new stadium that opens this season. Although the venue is now undergoing upgrades to its video boards and suite areas this summer, it wasn’t enough to break the trend of new stadiums receiving Super Bowls. With the announcement of the awarding of the Super Bowl here we became an worldwide city, Butts said. Both are go-to Super Bowl locations thanks to attractions like South Beach and the French Quarter.
Miami had most recently hosted the Super Bowl back in 2010 for Super Bowl XLIV between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts.
Miami’s Super Bowl LIV will climax the NFL’s centennial season.
“We are honored that the National Football League is bringing the Super Bowl to Los Angeles in 2021”.
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Being a native Long Islander, I took a trip to Super Bowl Boulevard and attended the Super Bowl XLVIII festivities taking place in Times Square back in 2014.
