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Is the superbowl always played in the same location? if not how do they determine it?

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  • T B
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    So which team is from Florida??? The Bears or the Colts??

    Cities that want to host it put in bids each year and then the NFL picks the city. Like the Olympics metioned before.

    Last year it was in Detriot (where my Steelers won!!!)

    This year it is in Miami and next year it is in Phoenix (Glendale) Arizona.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    No, it's always worked out that way but the location is chosen well in advance. No team has ever made it to the superbowl who's stadium is the host. Bidding on who hosts the game is done well before the season ever even begins. I don't know how many bowls out they plan. It may be several out. It's done a lot like how the city that hosts the olympics is chosen.

  • 1 decade ago

    It rotates to locations that can host...cold weather locations are usually avoided because they don't want everyone to look miserable in the stands in a show storm! Detroit is the only cold weather host since they have a dome...the problem is, no one is going to party since it's 0 degrees! They usually have it in a warm place so the game is without bad weather, the fans look cool and the hotels and restaurants in town will make money.

    Source(s): Experience
  • 1 decade ago

    the Superbowl is played at different stadiums each year to give the fans from each region a chance to catch it in person. it is decided by the commissionaire of the NFL and what city can generate a greater income for it.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It varies from location Cities make proposals to the NFL and a committee decides.Sort of like the Olympics.

  • 1 decade ago

    It's randomly selected. Cities with teams bid on having the super bowl in their city. It usually end ups in a city that is warm and has a good stadium.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, it gets batted around from location to location. I'd really like to see it played somewhere COLD and outside, just once. Buffalo, Chicago, GREEN BAY, etc.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The location of the Super Bowl is chosen by the NFL well in advance, usually 3 to 5 years before the game. Cities compete to host the game in a selection bidding process.

    Over half of the Super Bowls have been played in one of the following three cities: New Orleans, Louisiana (9 times, 6 times at the Louisiana Superdome and 3 times at now-demolished Tulane Stadium), the Greater Miami Area (8 total, 5 times at Miami's Orange Bowl and 3 times at Miami Gardens' Dolphin Stadium) and the Greater Los Angeles Area (7 total, 5 times at Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium and twice at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum). Miami Gardens has been selected to host two future games: Super Bowl XLI in 2007 and Super Bowl XLIV in 2010. Although Hurricane Katrina damaged the Louisiana Superdome and the city of New Orleans, it was renovated, and some city officials have stated that they would like to put in another bid sometime in the future. The last time the Los Angeles area hosted the game was Super Bowl XXVII in 1993; the area is currently not considered a possible venue after the league's two teams vacated the city in 1995: the Raiders moved back to Oakland, California, and the Rams moved to St. Louis, Missouri.

    Coincidentally, no NFL team has ever played the Super Bowl on its own home turf. However, Super Bowl XIV (which involved the then-Los Angeles Rams) was played at nearby Pasadena's Rose Bowl stadium; and Super Bowl XIX (which involved the San Francisco 49ers) was played at the nearby Stanford Stadium on the Stanford University campus near Palo Alto. Neither of these stadiums (both neutral sites) has ever been a home to an NFL team (though the 49ers played a home game at Stanford Stadium after the Loma Prieta earthquake postponed the World Series a week and forced the 49ers from Candlestick Park.)

    A potential venue currently must meet these qualifications in order to be a Super Bowl host: [citation needed]

    Average high temperature of at least 50 degrees Fahrenheit in February, unless the game is being played in an indoor arena

    Stadium with 65,000 seats or more

    Space for 10 photo trailers and 40 television trucks

    600,000 square feet of exhibit space for fan events

    Large, high-end hotel for teams and NFL

    50,000 square feet of space for news media ("Radio Row")

    Enough "quality" hotel rooms within a one-hour drive for 35% of the stadium's capacity

    Separate practice facilities for each team.

    Exceptions are at the discretion of the NFL. For instance, cruise ships made up the discrepancy in hotel rooms for Jacksonville in Super Bowl XXXIX and cities with cold weather such as Minneapolis and Detroit have been awarded Super Bowls because the cities' stadiums had a roof.

    On March 5, 2006, Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, a 'cold weather' city, was awarded the rights to host Super Bowl XLIX in 2015. However, the game was contingent on the successful passage of two sales taxes in Jackson County, Missouri on April 4, 2006. The first tax would have funded improvements to Arrowhead, home of the Chiefs and the Kansas City Wizards Major League Soccer team, and neighboring Kauffman Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team. The second tax would have allowed the construction of a "rolling roof" between the two stadiums. [10] However, the second tax failed to pass. With increased opposition by local business leaders and politicians, Kansas City eventually withdrew its request to host the game by May 25, 2006.[11]

    The designated "home team" alternates between the NFC team in odd-numbered years (the Philadelphia Eagles in 2005), and the AFC team in even-numbered years (the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006). The home team is given the choice of either wearing their colored jerseys or their white ones; this started with Super Bowl XIII. Prior to that, the home team always wore the dark jerseys. The Dallas Cowboys wore their rarely used blue uniform tops in Super Bowl V, and lost to the then-Baltimore Colts, which has led to the widely held belief that the Cowboys do not play well in their blue shirts. While most home teams in the Super Bowl choose to wear their colored jerseys, only the Cowboys in XIII and XXVII, the Washington Redskins in XVII, and the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL have worn white as the home team.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1) NO

    2) they play in one of the two teams home state.

  • 5 years ago

    Yeah it's possible

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