Super Bowl XLIV
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| Visiting Team | NFC Champion |
| Home Team | AFC Champion |
| Date | February 7, 2010 |
| Stadium | Dolphin Stadium |
| City | Miami, Florida |
| TV in the United States | |
| Network | CBS |
| Announcers | To be announced |
Super Bowl XLIV will be the 44th annual edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 40th annual championship game of the modern-era National Football League (NFL). The game will be be played at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, the 10th time a Super Bowl will have played in the Miami metro area. A date has not yet been officially announced, but in recent years the NFL has been holding the Super Bowl on the first Sunday in February, which would be on February 7, 2010. The game will be televised in the United States on CBS, which will celebrate coverage of its 50th NFL season (1956-93; 1998-present). It also broadcast the most recent Super Bowl held in Miami, Florida (XLI).
This will be the first Super Bowl telecast after the February 17, 2009 deadline to end analog television broadcasts in the US.
On March 23, 2005, the league originally voted to have the City of New York host the game contingent on the completion of the proposed West Side Stadium, to be built for the New York Jets, by 2008.
After New York State government officials in June refused to approve $300 million for the stadium, the NFL in August decided to reopen the bidding for the game's site. The league then decided to consider the failed candidates for Super Bowl XLIII: Atlanta, Georgia, Houston, Texas, and Miami, Florida. The league eventually selected Miami on October 6.
With Tampa as the host of Super Bowl XLIII, Super Bowl XLIV will mark the third time that consecutive Super Bowls would be played in the same state. Super Bowls II and III were both played at the Miami Orange Bowl. Super Bowls XXI and XXII were both played in California: XXI at Pasadena's Rose Bowl Stadium and XXII at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium.
Miami will become the first city to host two Super Bowls designated as a National Security Special Event (NSSE). In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, every Super Bowl since Super Bowl XXXVI has been designated as an NSSE. Super Bowl XLI was Miami Gardens's first Super Bowl designated as an NSSE.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ New York gets 2010 Super Bowl ... for now (accessed September 10, 2005)
- ^ NFL Owners work on contract extension; reopen 2010 SB bids (accessed September 10, 2005)
- ^ Atlanta, Houston, Miami to get shot at 2010 Super Bowl (accessed September 16, 2005)
- ^ Miami awarded 2010 Super Bowl (Accessed October 6, 2005)
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