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NFL awards Super Bowls to Tampa, Los Angeles

By David Austin Bumpus

Feb 1, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Vince Lombardi Trophy on display prior to a press conference in preparation for Super Bowl LI at George R. Brown Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 1, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Vince Lombardi Trophy on display prior to a press conference in preparation for Super Bowl LI at George R. Brown Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Two Super Bowls changed locations on Tuesday, as the NFL moved Super Bowl LV to Tampa and Super Bowl LVI to Los Angeles.

The NFL’s owners voted on Tuesday to relocate two future Super Bowls to different locations, due to some delays in the building of the new football stadium in Los Angeles.

According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, in the owner’s Spring League Meeting in Chicago, the owners voted for the Los Angeles Super Bowl to be pushed back to Super Bowl LVI in 2022, and awarded Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium with Super Bowl LV in 2021.

The league decided to move the big event’s return to Los Angeles to 2022, since it was announced the currently unbuilt Inglewood stadium hit some road blocks in its construction this week.

“The continuing rains really knocked us for a loop,” principal in charge Bob Aylesworth said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times about the construction. “It was a very unforgiving two months for the project. And speaking from a building perspective, it really couldn’t have come at a worse time.”

The NFL usually requires stadiums to be open for two years before they’re able to host the Super Bowl, and the year-long delay in the stadium’s opening would’ve made for a sticky situation. The owners would’ve needed to sign a waiver for the Super Bowl to be held in 2021 in Los Angeles.

The move now gives Florida two straight Super Bowls, as the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami will host Super Bowl LIV in 2020, just a year before the Tampa Super Bowl.

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The new stadium in Los Angeles is now scheduled to open up in 2020, a year later than the original 2019 date that they had hoped for.

As far as the next three Super Bowls are concerned, they all stay put. Super Bowl LII will be held in Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium in 2018, before Super Bowl LIII is held in Atlanta in 2019 and Super Bowl LIV in South Florida in 2020.

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