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Article: Miami hopes to fend off L.A. for Super Bowl LXI

May 20, 2023 06:58AM
Miami hopes to fend off L.A. for Super Bowl LXI
Posted by Mike Florio on May 20, 2023, 11:28 AM EDT
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Last month, Rams COO Kevin Demoff said that SoFi Stadium would like to host Super Bowl LXI, in early 2027. That apparently was news to folks in South Florida who have been angling for the game.

Hal Habib of the Palm Beach Post reports that Miami hopes it will be awarded Super Bowl LXI, despite L.A.’s late interest.

“We obviously want to get a game back to Miami,” South Florida Super Bowl bid committee chairman Rodney Barreto told Habib. “We believe we had a very successful last Super Bowl and the world shut down after that Super Bowl.”

Miami hosted the Super Bowl in February 2020. The Chiefs defeated the 49ers in the 54th installment of the game.

The NFL changed the procedures several years ago to avoid direct competition among cities for specific Super Bowls. Now, the league pursues a specific city, outlines its demands, and waits to see whether the city accepts.

Habib’s report suggests either that the approach has been tweaked, or that Demoff and the Rams are trying to horn in on a process that is supposed to no longer pit city against city, year after year, forcing those places that inevitably lose out on the game to waste time, money, and effort to secure it.

Super Bowl LX is expected to be awarded to San Francisco this week. Super Bowl LVIII will be played in Las Vegas, with Super Bowl LVIX happening in New Orleans.

It’s unknown whether Super Bowl LXI will be awarded this week, or at a later date.



#HelmetHornsMatter

“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.

“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood


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  Article: Miami hopes to fend off L.A. for Super Bowl LXI

Ramsdude154May 20, 2023 06:58AM

  best outcome would be a compromise

L.A.Rams68May 20, 2023 09:10AM

  Re: best outcome would be a compromise

Ohiorams53May 20, 2023 10:57AM

  Re: best outcome would be a compromise

Ramsdude40May 20, 2023 11:44AM

  Re: best outcome would be a compromise

WhiteHorns46May 20, 2023 12:03PM

  Yes!!!

Ramsdude36May 20, 2023 12:58PM