Right, but which modern locations are those? Every modern, newly built stadium puts in for a Superbowl bid. Kinda go hand in hand with the league.
Modern doesn't have much to do with it. It is the climate which is almost always warm weather for the 2 weeks before the game. Any stadium can put in for it but doesn't mean they will get it. The NFL was surprised by the ice storm in Atlanta for Super Bowl 34 which is usually decent that time of year which only reaffirmed their desire to keep the event in warm weather. Only 4 locations (I'm including Indy) north of the Mason-Dixon Line have had a Super Bowl. Of the remaining 11 locations 7 are in the south and 4 in the west. Cities having hosted the game are as follows:
Miami 10 times
New Orleans 10 times
Los Angeles 7
Tampa 4
San Diego 3
Phoenix 3
Houston 3
Atlanta 2
Detroit 2
San Francisco 2
Minneapolis 1
Jacksonville 1
Dallas 1
Indianapolis 1
New York metro 1
In a 32 team league 7 cities account for 60% of the games.
From Wikipedia:
Selection process[edit]
The location of the Super Bowl is chosen by the NFL well in advance, usually three to five years before the game. Cities place bids to host a Super Bowl and are evaluated in terms of stadium renovation and their ability to host.
[42][48] In 2014, a document listing the specific requirements of Super Bowl hosts was leaked, giving a clear list of what was required for a Super Bowl host.
[49] Much of the cost of the Super Bowl is to be assumed by the host community, although some costs are enumerated within the requirements to be assumed by the NFL. Some of the host requirements include:
- The host stadium must be in a market that hosts an NFL team and must have a minimum of 70,000 seats, with the media and electrical amenities necessary to produce the Super Bowl. Stadiums may include temporary seating for Super Bowls, but seating must be approved by the league. Stadiums where the average game day temperature is below 50° Fahrenheit must either have a roof, or a waiver given by the league. There must be a minimum of 35,000 parking spaces within one mile of the stadium.
- The host stadium must have space for the Gameday Experience, a large pregame entertainment area, within walking distance of the stadium.
- The host city must have space for the NFL Experience, the interactive football theme park which is operated the week prior to the Super Bowl. An indoor venue for the event must have a minimum of 850,000 square feet, and an outdoor venue must have a minimum of 1,000,000 square feet. Additionally, there must be space nearby for the Media Center, and space for all other events involved in the Super Bowl week, including golf courses and bowling alleys.
- The necessary infrastructure must be in place around the stadium and other Super Bowl facilities, including parking, security, electrical needs, media needs, communication needs and transportation needs.
- There must be a minimum number of hotel spaces within one hour's drive of the stadium equaling 35% of the stadium's capacity, along with hotels for the teams, officials, media and other dignitaries. (For Super Bowl XXXIX, the city of Jacksonville docked several luxury cruise liners at their port to act as temporary hotel space.[50])
- There must be practice space of equal and comparable quality for both teams within a 20-minute drive of the team hotels, and rehearsal space for all events within a reasonable distance to the stadium. The practice facilities must have one grass field and at least one field of the same surface as the host stadium.
- The stadium must have a minimum of 70,000 fixed seats, including club and fixed suite seating, during regular season operations.
The NFL owners meet to make a selection on the site, usually three to five years prior to the event. In 2007, NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell suggested that a Super Bowl might be played in London, perhaps at
Wembley Stadium.
[51] The game has never been played in a region that lacks an NFL franchise; seven Super Bowls have been played in Los Angeles, but none were held there in the 21-year period when the league had no team in the area. New Orleans, the site of the 2013 Super Bowl, invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure improvements in the years leading up to the game.
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