10 cities that should host a Super Bowl

9. Chicago, Illinois

Soldier Field is a open-air stadium, which carries concerns for field conditions and such in terms of housing a Super Bowl, and The Windy City generally lives up to its name in the middle of winter. But otherwise Chicago has the infrastructure as a major market to host everything that surrounds the game, which should make it stand out in the NFL’s eyes.

Concerns about crime in certain parts of Chicago are ongoing and in the news regularly, but those bad areas can probably be avoided for the of events the NFL stages around the Super Bowl. Chicago is also within reasonable driving distance of many major cities in the Upper Midwest, so barring particularly adverse weather fans traveling there during the week of the game should have little trouble getting to their destination.

The NFL embraced the possibility of a snow game for the Super Bowl in New York/New Jersey a few years ago, due of course to the new stadium being built for the Giants and Jets. Soldier Field is obviously not an exact facsimile as one of the older stadiums in the league, but as an outside the box Super Bowl destination Chicago can’t be dismissed by the NFL.