A friend of mine insists that San Diego was given one of its Super Bowls after the other previously selected site was deemed “unsuitable” as the venue for a Super Bowl.
I know that the NFL selects the site for an upcoming Super Bowl site years in advance, so with such a lead time it seems unlikly that any that such change in the short term would have made the news.
The real upshot is this: to win the bet (You all knew that there was money on this, somewhere, didn’t you?) I need to get some info on the undisturbed, regular and orderly way that the Superbowl sites have been picked over the last fifty or so years. Maybe the number of SB’s is less than that but Roman numerals always confuse me.
Just like any other big event, a city makes a pitch to the NFL and the people in charge of making the pick decide who the winner is based on how attractive they think the site will be.
If you have a nice stadium in a city with a lot of hotel space, you get the Super Bowl. Politics plays a big part also.
San Diego’s last Super Bowl was a replacement for Tempe. Arizona was rejected because the state didn’t have an MLK Holiday.
The ucoming Super Bowl will be number 36 and it will be in New Orleans, which is the NFL’s favorite city for Super Bowls.
Bear in mind, the NFL dangles the SUper Bowl before cities, in order to get concessions from them.
The NFL promised Minneapolis a Super Bowl if they’d build a new stadium for the Vikings, and they made a similar deal with Atlanta. I don’t think there was ever a serious chance that this year’s Super Bowl would be moved to New York… but the NFL may have flirted with the idea to “inspire” local governments to build the Giants/Jets a new domed (or retractable roof) stadium, in hopes of getting a future SUper Bowl.