Question for NFL experts: Has there ever been a Super Bowl played

[Redstone]

in the home stadium of one of teams involved?

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[taterguy]

1. Super Bowl VII was played in the Jacksonville Jaguars home stadium

[JTG of the PRB]

2. Not yet there hasn't.

And there's a limited number of teams that could know that honor - San Diego, Arizona, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, and Miami. If they decide to play the Super Bowl in New York sometime soon you can add the Giants and the Jets to that list.

[Roon]

3. Football includes playing in all kinds of weather

They should let ALL the stadiums have a chance to host the superbowl.

[taterguy]

5. The Super Bowl hasn't been about the game in a long time

It's a big corporate party.

New Orleans should be the permanent home of the Super Bowl.

They don't change the venue for the Masters & the Daytona 500 every year.

Why should football be different?

[JTG of the PRB]

7. I absolutely agree.

I'd love to see a Super Bowl in Denver. A nice, beautiful, 75-degree Super Bowl on Sunday in February.

Or a nice, -10, two feet of snow Super Bowl. Either way.

[Roon]

11. Wouldn't that be sweet? eom

[SoxFan]

17. In sleet and 45 MPH winds in Foxboro!

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Yep - I want a Super Bowl played at Lambeau when it's 40 below/-120 with windchill

Especially if it's two warm weather teams used to their climate controlled stadiums.

[JVS]

12. I'm going to have to disagree.

While I do believe that football should be played in the open, I also think that it shouldn't be played beyond the first week in January. Traditionally it's a fall game. So while in the old days they might have played in all kinds of weather, they were not playing in February.

[cheneyschernobyl]

15. There's a huge number of

things a stadium/city must accomplish in order to host a Super Bowl. Here are some of them (in my own words):
- seating capacity of stadium
- number of luxury boxes
- number of available hotel rooms

Now my mind is drawing a blank. Sorry.

[Crazy Dave]

4. It was an embarrassment (to me) having a Super Bowl here in Jacksonville

It's a crap hole of a town, tight restrictions on everything from girlie bars to public alcohol. The Jacksonville First Baptist Church owns about 80% of downtown Jacksonville and had their Baptist police monitoring the crowds waiting for somebody to step out of the temporary outdoor drinking limits to have them fined or arrested for public drunkenness.

Add the fact that we didn't have enough hotel rooms in the city so they had to get rat infested cruise ships for out of towners to use as hotel rooms where once there they were extorted to pay higher prices than they were told. There's nothing, I mean nothing in downtown within 5 miles of the stadium excluding the Jacksonville Landing so visitors had to also pay for long and expensive cab rides to various places sprawled around town. There is no party street or district here.

The only reason there was ever a Super Bowl was that it was a gift/favor to Wayne Weaver, the team owner.

[SoxFan]

6. Stadium? No.

Market? Yes.

The San Francisco 49ers played in Super Bowl XIX, played at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.

The Los Angeles Rams played in Super Bowl XIV, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

Neither team played their home games in the Super Bowl venue; the Niners played at Candlestick Park, and the Rams played at the LA Colliseum in 1979 and at Anaheim Stadium in 1980.

[madinmaryland]

9. I think the 49'ers or Raiders played a super bowl in Stanford Stadium back

in the early 80's or late 70's.

[mtowngman]

10. No, closest was niners at Stanford stadium -I think n/t

[SoxFan]

16. Niners at Stanford, Rams in Pasadena

[Bluzmann57]

13. Forgot which Roman numeral it was

But I think the San Francisco 49ers played in Stanford Stadium many years ago. If I'm wrong, I apologize.

[KamaAina]

14. Follow-up: Will there be one this year?

In a word, NO. :P