The 2020 game will be the 11th in Miami, pushing the city past New Orleans for the most in Super Bowl history.
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National Football League owners sent a strong message Tuesday with its awarding of three future Super Bowl sites: If you build it, they will come.
Their new 80,000-seat, glass-roofed stadium, to be built in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood on the site previously occupied by Hollywood Park race track, is expected to open in time for the 2019 season.
The Rams have returned to Los Angeles, and now the Super Bowl is coming back, too. New Orleans and Tampa Bay, the other cities that were considered, have not undertaken any major stadium projects.
In this, Saturday, May 21, 2016, photo, the stadium where the Miami Dolphins play football is shown under renovation in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Minnesota’s new U.S. Bank Stadium – built for the Vikings mostly with taxpayer money – opens this year, and will play host to Super Bowl LII (52) after the 2017 season. In a press release, Falcons’ owner Arthur Blank giddily predicted Atlanta’s Big Game will be “the most walkable Super Bowl ever” because, in part, downtown and a large radius around it have “truly transformed since (the city) last hosted the Super Bowl in 2000”. In 1994, the city also hosted Super Bowl XXVIII when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills 30-13. “So I think an extra year might be good”. With the announcement of the awarding of the Super Bowl here we became an worldwide city, Butts said. 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.
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The website for the South Florida Super Bowl Bid Committee credits the area’s weather, beaches, golf courses, restaurants and culture to attracting more than 100,000 visitors to the tri-county area for the game and the Pro Bowl that year. “We helped forge this great American tradition at the Coliseum when it began in 1967; and we’re thrilled to bring it back where it belongs for Super Bowl LV”.
