Would they alter the Superbowl location if the home team for that stadium wins the championship and would be playing in their home field and thus get the home field advantage?
I doubt it since the location is decided years in advance.
No cites, but I definitely remember one or two years where Miami would have played in their own stadium if they had made it to the Super Bowl, and since Dan Marino was QB it seemed like a possibility.
Many games have been played in stadiums that traditionally have poor teams: 9 Super Bowls have been played in New Orleans, for example. 5 have been played in Pasadena, which would not have technically been the home stadium for the Rams or the Raiders when they were in Los Angeles, but I suppose that would have been kind of close.
The closest that a team has ever played to it’s home stadium was San Fransisco in the 1985 Super Bowl, which was played in Stanford. I’m not sure off hand how close Stanford is to San Fransisco, but they’re both in Northern California.
Of the teams that have been to the Super Bowl five times or more (Dallas 8, Denver 6, San Fransisco 5, Pittsburgh 5, Oakland/LA Raiders 5, Washington 5, Miami 5) the only ones that have ever had the Super Bowl in their home town were the Raiders (when they were in LA) and Miami.
The closest time-wise a team has ever come to playing the Super Bowl in it’s home town was the Atlanta Falcons. They were in the Super Bowl in 1999 and the Super Bowl was played in Atlanta in 2000.
To answer the question, no. Way too much planning goes into it.
It’ll happen it 2006! 
Stanford (Palo Alto) is down 101 about 25-30 miles down the peninsula from San Francisco. Traditionally, the peninsula roots for San Francisco teams over Oakland teams, so the Niners were most assuredly in friendly territory.
Wasn’t the Rams vs. Steelers Super Bowl game played in Pasedena? That was basically a home game for the Rams.
Wasn’t the Rams vs. Steelers Super Bowl game played in Pasadena? That was basically a home game for the Rams.
Where’s the game in 2006?
The 2006 Super Bowl will be played in Detroit, Michigan, at Ford Field.
Teams playing in the Super Bowl are required by the league to arrive in the host city on (I think) the Monday prior to the game - quite unlike the normal routine which has the visitors arrive the day before, usually. This means that practice facilities need to be made available to both teams for the duration of the week.
I don’t know what was used this year, but in the past when I’ve noticed it has often been a local college and/or the local NFL franchise’s facility. They’re assigned well before the teams are known, and are designated as the AFC facility and the NFC facility.
Every time I’ve paid attention (I specifically recall the last game played in Atlanta), when an NFL team’s facility was used, it was assigned to the conference containing that team. I guess this avoids the awkward situation of a team having to vacate its practice facility to allow their opponents in the upcoming game to take it over.
Does anyone know where the teams practiced this year? Did the Patriots use the Texans’ facility?
Long before the teams were decided, I read that the practice facilities would be Rice Stadium (at Rice University) and Robertson Stadium (here at the University of Houston).
Despite being here at UH the whole time, I failed to notice anyone using our stadium. But that’s not unusual, as lots of people use the stadium for all kinds of things without me paying any attention.
I don’t know which team used which stadium.
As far as the home team crowd is concerned, the distribution of Superbowl tickets makes it next to impossible for the home team’s fans to become an issue.
Usually, the home team has 90+ of the fans screaming for them, which is a big factor in the home advantage. But both teams in the Superbowl get the same number of tickets, and many of the tickets are picked up by people who are going to the Superbowl and don’t have a strong rooting interest in one team or another. This dilutes the effect of the home crowd on the outcome. A Superbowl in Miami with the Dolphins in it would have about the same number of Dolphin fans as if the game were in Pasadena.