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  • 2018 Super Bowl: Where Will The Game Take Place?

    The bids are in. There are three contenders for the 2018 Super Bowl.

    In less than two weeks, we will know which lucky city gets to host the 2018 Super Bowl. The organizers in Indianapolis and Minneapolis held news conferences today to let the public know that they have formally submitted their bids to the NFL’s 32 team owners. The other contender is New Orleans.

    The vote will come on May 20. Each contender is out making the case why their city should be the 2018 host.

    The only warm weather city in the group is New Orleans, home to 10 Super Bowls, including the 2013 contest where the lights went out, causing a 34-minute delay and almost giving enough fuel to the San Francisco 49ers to mount a tremendous comeback against the Baltimore Ravens. The year 2018 will be a festive one for The Big Easy, as it marks the city’s 300th Anniversary. New Orleans organizers are hoping to tie-in the celebration with the Super Bowl.

    Minneapolis also makes a good case. It’s obviously freezing in January in Minnesota, however, weather doesn’t seem to play as important a role in the deciding factor anymore. Last year’s Super Bowl was in New Jersey, in an outdoor stadium without a retractable roof. However, the Vikings will have a brand new indoor stadium in 2018, and the NFL likes big games in new, shiny, state of the art venues. The last time Minneapolis got to host the big game was in 1992.

    Which brings us to our last contender, Indianapolis, another cold-weather city with an indoor stadium. Although they just hosted a Super Bowl in 2012, the game and week long media circus surrounding the event went off almost without a hitch. The main issue was not enough hotel rooms, however, Indy officials have claimed that the situation will be remedied with the addition of two large hotels in the downtown area.

    Indy bid chairwoman Allison Melangton said, ”A lot of running the Super Bowl has to do with the execution. And no city in the country has done that better than this one (Indy), hands down.”

    Organizers from each team are allowed 15 minutes to convince the 32 team owners why their city should win the bid. Then, the three team owners will each have five additional minutes. In exactly 12 days, we’ll know the location of the 2018 Super Bowl.

    What do you think? Where should the 2018 Super Bowl take place?

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  • 2018 Super Bowl Bids Are In: Indianapolis Vs. Minneapolis Vs. New Orleans

    Super Bowl LII, in 2018, may be the last thing on football fan’s minds, but three groups are focused on getting the win. They aren’t football teams. They’re cities, and only one will win the honor of being the location of the 2018 Super Bowl.

    Indianapolis, Minneapolis and New Orleans are the major contenders, and the cities have two weeks to make their case before a decision is made. According to the Associated Press, the cities have given proposals to the 32 NFL team owners. The final vote takes place on May 20th, and tension is running high. “It’s a very competitive process,” Indianapolis’ Allison Melangton told the AP, “We’ve got 13 days to go and we want to take every competitive advantage we’ve got.”

    One advantage Indianapolis is counting on is the final bid pitch, which will be made by Colts Owner, Jim Irsay, who hasn’t been seen in public since March 16th, and is now facing felony drug charges…

    Wait, is that an advantage or a disadvantage?

    Colts COO Pete Ward is hopeful the final bid will go without a hitch. “Jim’s planning on being at the meeting,” he said to USA Today, “Every owner of the franchises whose city is bidding has a chance to talk for five minutes, so he plans on talking to the ownership. He’s very excited about the bid. . . He has become increasingly more active in terms of lobbying and just keeping tabs on how things are going.”

    Some of the other cities face challenges as well. For Minneapolis, it’s the fact that the city gets very, very cold in February, when the Super Bowl always takes place.


    “You’ll be proud to know that we’re going to celebrate winter,” Richard Davis of Minneapolis’s bid committee told the Pioneer Press. They were more hesitant to reveal any more details. No city seems to want to give away any part of it’s bid package.

    All that leaves is New Orleans, trying to break the record of most super bowls held ever:

    …So who will it be? The announcement will be made in two weeks, and you will have to wait four years to watch the results.

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  • 2018 Super Bowl Location To Be Decided In Two Weeks

    The 2018 Super Bowl, or Super Bowl LII, will be hosted in one of three cities – Indianapolis, Minneapolis and New Orleans. Over the next two weeks, the three cities will battle it out to decide who gets to host American’s biggest sporting event four years from now.

    On May 20, the NFL will vote for which city they want Super Bowl LII to take place at. Until then, the three cities have to make their case before the NFL. All three cities have experience in hosting the game and each have compelling arguments for the NFL to choose them.

    Starting off, Indianapolis has hosted the Super Bowl most recently with the 2012 game going off without a hitch. The only real complaint is that there weren’t enough hotels to accommodate all those attending, but the city says it can have two more hotels built in the city before 2018.

    Minneapolis argues that it has the benefit of a brand new stadium that will be completed before 2018. It’s easier to attract the Super Bowl to brand new stadiums and Minneapolis is banking on that fact to bring the game to them. After all, it’s been over 20 years since the city has hosted the game and it could use the influx of cash the game brings.

    Lastly, New Orleans argues that it should have the game based solely on the fact that it has hosted more Super Bowls than any other city. Since the beginning, New Orleans has hosted the Super Bowl 10 times tieing it with Miami. It also wants to tie the game into its tricentennial celebration. The city might be at a disadvantage due to the fact that it hosted the Super Bowl in 2013 and the NFL may not want to give it to the city again so soon.

    While we won’t know which city will host Super Bowl LII, we know which cities will host the next three Super Bowls. In 2015, Glendale, Arizona will host the game at the University of Phoenix Stadium. In 2016, the game will be hosted in Santa Clara, California at the Levi’s Stadium. In 2017, the game will be in Houston, Texas at the NGR Stadium.

    [h/t: ABC News]
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