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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.”

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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.

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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.

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.

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The $4 billion, 70,000-seat Inglewood stadium is expected to be ready for the Chargers and Rams in 2020.

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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Todd Windsor is a senior story editor at The Western Journal. He has worked as an editor or reporter in news and sports for more than 30 years.
Todd Windsor is a senior story editor at The Western Journal. He was born in Baltimore and grew up in Maryland. He graduated from the University of Miami (he dreams of wearing the turnover chain) and has worked as an editor and reporter in news and sports for more than 30 years. Todd started at The Miami News (defunct) and went on to work at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times, The Baltimore Sun and Space News before joining Liftable Media in 2016. He and his beautiful wife have two amazing daughters and a very old Beagle.
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