Where is the Superbowl Being Played?
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For those of you who have been living in a cave or flat could care less about the super bowl, you probably don’t know the answer to this question, so it’s being provided here anyway.
From Vox:
Super Bowl XLIX will be played at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona(which is near Phoenix).
This is the home stadium of the Arizona Cardinals NFL team, not a stadium where a university-affiliated team plays. The University of Phoenix is a for-profit college that bought naming rights to the stadium for publicity purposes. Super Bowl XLII was also played at University of Phoenix Stadium.
A unique attribute of University of Phoenix Stadium is that it features natural grass in a domed environment. They make this work by storing the grass outside and then moving the entire playing surface indoors for games. It looks pretty cool:
The Super Bowl rotates between different arenas for several reasons. The backdrop for the entire thing, however, is that pro football is so overwhelmingly popular in the United Statesthat the game can reliably be sold out at high prices without it being held in the home city of either of the teams that is playing. That’s a huge advantage for the NFL: the freedom to choose a site far in advance greatly facilitates planning and makes possible the whole larger spectacle that exists around the big game.
The ability to vary the location, meanwhile, provides the NFL with additional leverage in the endless quest for more stadium subsidies. Only the most state-of-the-art arenas will be considered.
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I know somewhere it is not being played. My living room this year will be free of the husband’s friends and their nasty habit, of not putting coasters under drinks. He’s going to his friends house this year and I am going shopping, then I shall come back and watch the Puppy Bowl.
Awesome. I’m with you. I’m 71 and have never watched a super bowl. For me the whole thing is just a huge bore. A constant series of committee meetings follow by moments of utter violence. Also, how do you “like” a particular team that you have absolutely no personal connection with? And whose winning or losing has no personal affect on you. You won’t be smarter for having paid attention to it. You won’t be emotionally richer for it, or financially better off. It’s probably that I’m just too disconnected from most sports to understand the answer. The fact is that I feel about football much the same way I do about boxing, NASCAR and dog fighting. None of these sports represent a good idea.
Screech I was more or less forced to watch one Super Bowl, and that was about 20 years ago when a friend twisted my arm by offering free beer and snacks if I would come to his SB party. I agreed, drank the beer, ate the snacks and paid no attention to the TV. That was the only time.
When the Super Bowl was played in Phoenix for the first time, I lived there. I was quite a distance from the stadium (Arizona State University) but felt the effects of the event anyway. Restaurant prices soared, no local entertainment venues were worth visiting, and the traffic situation was worse than usual.
Even though I was over 30 miles from the stadium, a couple of neighbors rented their houses out for the event. Several property management firms specialized in arranging short term rentals for the event. One neighbor admitted that his profit for the two-weeks he moved out almost made his house payment for a year. This was including going to California,staying with relatives, and the expenses involved in entertaining themselves for the duration.
Even more crazy, some people stayed in Tucson and commuted over two hours each way to Phoenix. That’s how tight and expensive the hotel situation was.
It was like a World CUp being held ever year.
That’s been all over the news here, about people making big bucks renting their homes during the Super Bowl week.