The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Also announced was that the 2017 championship, Super Bowl LI, will be held in Houston, Texas.
On Tuesday, team owners within the NFL voted for the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium to serve as home to the 2016 Super Bowl. The new state of the art facility in Santa Clara, California, named Levi's Stadium, is set to open for the 2014 season.
49er's CEO Jed York was pleased with playing Super Bowl host, he joked, "After losing a Super Bowl (to Baltimore), it feels really good to win a Super Bowl." The 49ers' lost Super Bowl XLVII to the Baltimore Ravens, after a remarkable comeback only to lose 28-24.
Super Bowl L being held in California is significant, the only previous Super Bowl played in northern California was at Stanford Stadium in 1985.
The Golden State hosting the 50th Super Bowl seems quite fitting, according to York, "We are so excited to be able to be able to put on the 'Golden Super Bowl' in the Golden State."
The next Super Bowl will be played in the first cold-weather site in NFL history, at Met Life Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Met Life Stadium serves as home to both the 2012 Super Bowl Champion New York Giants and the New York Jets. The game will be held on February 2, and if the cold-weather venue works out, many believe this will open up venues for other cities including Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver to bid for future Super Bowls.
The 2015 Super Bowl will be played in the Phoenix area.
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