With the approval of the Raiders moving to Las Vegas what are the chances of the Super Bowl someday being played in Las Vegas?
Given the fact that the Raiders’ new $1.9 billion stadium will be completely state-of-the-art when it opens for the 2020 football season, hosting a Super Bowl there is, in a word, inevitable.
Indeed, Las Vegas is almost tailor-made for the NFL’s Super Bowl host-city requirements: visitor infrastructure, not the least of which are hotel rooms, average temperature above 50 degrees or a dome, ability to handle media and advertising — and new stadiums seem to earn points. Eight NFL stadiums have opened or started construction in the past 10 years and they’ve all hosted, or are scheduled to, the Big Game within four years of their completion dates.
In fact, the next four Super Bowls will be held in new or remodeled stadiums: Minneapolis (2018), Atlanta (2019), Miami (2020), and Los Angeles (2021).
The next Super Bowl whose location remains to be decided is Game LVI (56) on February 5, 2022. But NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell recently told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “I don’t see it happening by then.”
Goodell cited “other cities in line”: Phoenix, Tampa, New Orleans, and Houston. Houston’s Super Bowl host committee is pushing hard for 2022.
So, based on all the foregoing, we predict Las Vegas will see a Super Bowl in 2023, 2024 at the latest.
