Las Vegas and Los Angeles to be fixtures of new Super Bowl rotation - report
The two newest NFL cities will be regular Super Bowl hosts, according to a report Tuesday from NBC Sports’ Mike Florio.
Las Vegas, soon to be home of the Raiders, will host either Super Bowl LIX (in 2025) or LI (2026), wrote Florio, citing “a source with knowledge of the situation.”
“Sin City” will then become a fixture on the Super Bowl circuit, he said.
“As the source explained it, the anticipated reaction to the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas will be something like this, ‘Why don’t we have it here every year?'” Florio wrote. “And while that’s not practical, the Super Bowl likely will be returning to Las Vegas every four or five years.”
Los Angeles, which rejoined the league fraternity when the Rams and Chargers moved there in 2016 and 2017, respectively, is already slated to host Super Bowl LVI in 2022 at the new state-of-the-art stadium being built in Inglewood.
That will be the first of many, according to Florio, as LA and Vegas become two of four consistent Super Bowl host cities.
“The problem will be finishing out the rotation,” he said.
According to Florio, Miami is likely to be the third in the four-city rotation, with Arizona and New Orleans battling for the last spot.
The quartet “will then be supplemented by the periodic wild card, with cities like Atlanta and Dallas ending up being the fifth destination every half decade or so.”
A four-city cycle would be bad news for the Arizona-New Orleans loser as well as other cities in recent rotation, including Tampa, which has hosted four Super Bowls and is set to host LV in 2021, and Houston, which has been home to three.
Sports Business Journal reported two Super Bowls will be awarded this week: The Cardinals’ University of Phoenix Stadium will host LVII in 2023, while LVIII will be held at the Saints’ Mercedes-Benz Superdome in 2024.
NFL set to award Super bowls in 2023, 2024 to Arizona, NOLA respectively at owners meeting starting tomorrow. new process does away with bid system. Story in @sbjsbd meeting preview story https://t.co/Z89WynuIGA
— Daniel Kaplan (@KaplanSportsBiz) May 21, 2018
Los Angeles is no stranger to hosting Super Bowls: The first AFL vs. NFL championship game was held there in 1967, and six more were played at either Memorial Coliseum or the Rose Bowl.
The $4 billion, 70,000-seat Inglewood stadium is expected to be ready for the Chargers and Rams in 2020.
“This is going to be fantastic!” @ericdickerson and @LT_21 took a look inside the new stadium in Inglewood.
📺: @nflnetwork pic.twitter.com/y7FIWJJSHI
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) May 15, 2018
It will also be the centerpiece of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, the Raiders are expected to move into the $1.8 billion Las Vegas stadium when it opens in 2020.
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