It is no secret that Jerry Jones would like to host one other Tremendous Bowl, the Dallas Cowboys proprietor having already put in his bid to land one other as quickly as potential. There is a slim likelihood he will get his want as early as 2022, with the NFL having reached out to Jones to find out if AT&T Stadium and the encircling metropolis of Arlington, Texas can be accessible to function an alternate web site to the initially deliberate host for Tremendous Bowl LVI — SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles — per Mike Leslie of WFAA Channel 8 in Dallas.
Because it stands, this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 13 and neither the date nor location have been moved, and it seems that the league’s entrance workplace is solely doing its due diligence within the wake of the newest spike in ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
So whereas the Metropolis of Arlington — which reportedly reached out to the NFL proactively in December to be made an alternate — and Jones have given the NFL the inexperienced mild to descend upon North Texas if vital, the league needs to make it clear they are not planning a change, however as an alternative making ready for the chance they could want one.
And Jones wasn’t the one proprietor they contacted.
“We plan on taking part in Tremendous Bowl LVI as scheduled at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 13,” stated NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy. “As a part of our customary contingency planning course of that we conduct for all common and postseason video games, we now have contacted a number of golf equipment to inquire about stadium availability within the occasion we can not play the Tremendous Bowl as scheduled as a consequence of weather-related points or unexpected circumstances.
“Our planning course of for the Tremendous Bowl in Los Angeles is forward of schedule and we stay up for internet hosting the Tremendous Bowl there to culminate one other improbable NFL season for our followers and golf equipment.”
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AT&T Stadium is a multi-billion greenback facility that, at capability, can home greater than 100,000 followers.
Jones can be beating the drum to have the Cowboys services used for an upcoming NFL Mix prior to later, hoping to make use of the luxurious facilities and services as a way of wooing the league. It appears inevitable he’ll get his want for each the Mix and one other Tremendous Bowl sooner or later — having hosted the latter simply over a decade in the past in 2011 — however neither will happen in 2022. That’s, after all, one thing goes wildly mistaken with the power to host the most important even in sports activities on the newly-built SoFi Stadium (e.g., COVID).
For now, the one approach for the Cowboys to be concerned with Tremendous Bowl LVI is for them to make a deep postseason run. Nonetheless, in the event that they accomplish that purpose and the Tremendous Bowl strikes to AT&T Stadium, it will mark solely the second time in NFL historical past {that a} stadium internet hosting the sport was additionally residence to one in every of its members; only one 12 months after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers achieved the feat.
