The City of New York was chosen today by the owners of the teams Americao National Football League (NFL) game to host the 2014 Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl XLVIII will be held at the Meadowlands Stadium, the new home of Giants and Jets in New York, located in the community of East Rutherford, New Jersey, a suburb of New York, whose cost was one thousand six hundred million dollars.
The announcement of the venue was made on Tuesday by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell during the spring meeting of the 32 owners of teams in the league.
A slight majority of team owners bowed to New York, after considering other locations like Tampa, Florida.
This is the first time the NFL gives the seat of the “big game” to a stadium without a roof in a cold climate region, which could be an exception to the rule that should be played at not less than 10 degrees Celsius.
The organizers expect the 2014 Super Bowl to generate about 550 million dollars in revenue to the economy of the host city.
The sites identified for the next four “Super Sunday” are now: the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for the year 2010, the Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2011, the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2013, and the Meadowlands Stadium in New York in 2014.
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