Hosting the Super Bowl is a great opportunity for a franchise and its city—but with that opportunity comes great responsibility.
So the NFL doesn’t just dole them out willy-nilly.
After all, this is the league’s most important event of the year… and they need to make sure that it is able to run without incident—and, usually, they are trying to showcase the latest and greatest in stadium innovation.
Or place it in one of the most desirable travel destinations—which would explain how why it feels like every other year it is down in New Orleans.
The NFL also has a few standards around weather and the city infrastructure required to host, but there are more than a few stadiums that don’t get the shine they deserve or should have a one-off exception made for them.
So, without further ado—let’s take a look at 10 stadiums that need to host a Super Bowl ASAP!
Lucas Oil Stadium
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First up—let’s go with… Lucas Oil Stadium, where the Indianapolis Colts play their home games.
Now… before anyone jumps into the comments section—yes, we know that Indy hosted the Super Bowl in 2012.
But, c’mon—at this point—that is over a decade ago. And as far as we are concerned, Indianapolis should make the regular rotation.
While the city obviously lacks the climate allure that cities like Miami and Los Angeles have… And there isn’t the electric nightlife of a New Orleans or Atlanta…
But Indy was beyond committed to putting on an epic event—they nailed it in 2012—and have continued to put on other great championship events, like College Football Playoff National Championship in 2022—and even the NCAA Basketball tournament in 2010 and 2015.
It isn’t just sporting events that Indianapolis is attracting these days either, Allison Melangton, who served as the city’s Super Bowl Host Committee’s President and CEO back in 2012. “Talent attraction has been better more corporations have moved here more conventions. So I always knew it was a great city but a lot of other people figured it out then.”
It sounds to me—that more people are starting to understand what this midwestern city showed off during its hosting stint—that it is a great place for events. It has all the necessary infrastructure and is ready to rise to the occasion to support all of the fanfare that comes with Super Bowl Sunday.
Ford Field
Sticking in the Midwest… Ford Field – the stadium the Detroit Lions call home – should get back in the hosting mix as well!
Detroit last hosted Super Bowl in 2006, when Big Ben the Steelers knocked off Mike Holmgren’s Seahawks.
This Super Bowl got a lot of shine because it was the hometown of NFL legend, Jerome Bettis, who was playing his last-ever game—and he went out in the best possible fashion, winning the Super Bowl in front of friends and family alike.
That Super Bowl was also notable for being the first Super Bowl ever played on FieldTurf and believe it or not, the first Super Bowl to ever be broadcasted in full HD.
Which should be all the proof you need that it has been WAY too long since the Super Bowl was in the Motor City.
I know a lot of people have preconceived notions about Detroit, but the city is on the come up—and Ford Field is a great place to watch a game.
Besides, the Ford family is one of the longest-standing owners in the league, having run the Lions since 1963. With all of that NFL history—why not let the Lions host?
Plus—it’ll give the long-suffering Lions fans, which, happen to be some of the best football fans around—a chance to actually watch football in February!
Lambeau Field
Next up… sticking in the Midwest—we have a somewhat controversial one—which, admittedly may not really be possible…
But how about we get a Super Bowl at Lambeau Field?!
Listen… I understand that Wisconsin can be freezing in February… And Green Bay is hardly a professional sports city, let alone a city prepared to handle the massive influx of people that comes with hosting the Super Bowl.
But Lambeau is far and away the most recognizable stadium in the NFL… And, honestly, it is up there across all of North American sports.
Besides… The NFL let the Giants host the Super Bowl back in 2014 to show off the new Meadowlands Stadium.
So, if we are making exceptions for the shiny new stadiums, we should also make them for the insane combination of history and nostalgia that is Lambeau Field.
Is that too much to ask?!
Arrowhead Stadium
While we are talking about stadiums that will probably never get the chance to host—but absolutely should… The fact that Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, NEEDS to host a Super Bowl ASAP.
This is largely because Kansas City, like Green Bay, can be brutal during the winter…But sometimes it is worth risking it for the biscuit—and in the case of Arrowhead, that is absolutely the case.
Week in and week out it has one of the best gameday environments around the league. Obviously, we recognize that the Chiefs fans, many of whom would not actually be in attendance for the Super Bowl, are a huge part of why it is such an electric place to watch a game.
But the city loves football so much—that it would simply have to be a success—and I refuse to believe otherwise.
Plus, we would get the privilege of watching the broadcasters—or at least the pregame analysts stuffing their faces with the legendary Kansas City barbeque!
Just the icing on the cake for what would already be a hell of a Super Bowl weekend!
Highmark Stadium
To close out our “wish list section” – let’s call it – of stadiums that will probably never end up hosting one but absolutely should… Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park New York! The home of the Buffalo Bills!
Sure… At a moment’s notice—Buffalo can get hit with a foot or more of snow. And… yeah… it isn’t even second city status…
But the passion that Bill’s Mafia brings to the game simply cannot be replicated.
The atmosphere up in Buffalo where people eat, sleep, and breath football—is made for big games. And there is no bigger game than the Super Bowl!
Even if the Bills aren’t in the Super Bowl those crazy fans would still likely show up in droves—crash the tailgates and jump through every last table they can!
In all likelihood—the city of Buffalo will have to wait until they ultimately cave to NFL wishes and build a new domed stadium. But what is the fun in that?!
Buffalo is a true, blue football city—and some good old fashioned wintery snow football would add a level of authenticity that Los Angeles couldn’t dream of.
Maybe we are just football purists, but despite all the chaos it would cause, we want our football played in whatever conditions the host city has to bring. And the idea of having the Super Bowl… the biggest football game of the year—played in a Buffalo winter with the craziest fans in the league sounds too good to pass up on as far as we are concerned!
So what if Buffalo isn’t built to house the 10s of thousands of people that flock to the game.
Bring on the craziness! Send the Super Bowl to Buffalo!
NRG Stadium
Okay… Now let’s ease our way back towards reality—and focus on some cities that should host a Super Bowl ASAP—that might actually get a chance to!
There are actually two relatively new stadiums in Texas that come to mind.
First, NRG Stadium, home of the Houston Texans.
The construction was completed back in ’02, but the Texans have continued to update the stadium over the years. Its usual capacity is 72,220 people—but for special events it can be expanded to 80K.
Similar to Lucas Oil—NRG Stadium has hosted before… In fact—even more recently! It was in 2017.
But with the Super Bowls scheduled up through 2025—and a couple of newer venues that will likely get a chance to be showcased in the following years—it could easily be over a decade since NRG Stadium and the city of Houston host the big game.
Which, to us, is a travesty.
The stadium may not be quite as glamourous as SoFi in LA or Allegiant in Vegas—but Houston is a great football city and has all the nightlife and culture that you would want and need to produce an epic Super Bowl weekend.
And considering the fact that the 2017 Super Bowl brought in around $347 million dollars to the local economy, according to a report commissioned by the Super Bowl Host Committee—I bet Houston’s city officials are itching for another chance to play host.
So, what are we waiting for?! Let’s get the Super Bowl back into H-Town already! You already know it’ll bring in plenty of celebrities and athletes who love that Houston party scene… Cough cough… I’m looking at YOU James Harden.
AT&T Stadium
Anyway… If Houston can’t get the Super Bowl—maybe Jerry Jones can find a way to get it back into the city of Dallas—and his beloved AT&T Stadium.
Dallas hasn’t played host since 2011—and we believe that like Indy, Dallas needs to be in the regular rotation.
Even if that means the general public has to swallow the pill of putting another feather in Jerry Jones’ hat in the process.
AT&T Stadium opened in 2009 and though over a decade has passed—it is still a marvel. The attention to detail that the Jones family and HKS, the design firm contracted for the project, put into developing the stadium is next level.
The stadium features a ton of high-end art—comparable to the Art Institute of Chicago, can expand to fit over 105000 people, and its 120 by 180 foot, retractable glass doors and transparent roof can give the attendees the sense of being outdoors, despite it being an enclosed facilitate.
And if all that wasn’t enough—Dallas is a football loving city with all the nightlife and amenities that one might want from its Super Bowl host city.
Which is why we’ve seen other major events like the NCAA Final Four and the College Football Playoffs National Championship hosted there in the time since!
Nissan Stadium
Nashville—is another city that, if you ask us, absolutely NEEDS to host a Super Bowl ASAP.
Nashville—or Nashvegas—as it has come to be known, with the massive influx of tourists the city gets on a regular basis would be an amazing scene for the Super Bowl.
With Broadway as its centerpiece—the city itself is one big party and it would be well suited for all of the nighttime shenanigans that many Super Bowl goers will want to partake in.
It does, however, seem like if the big game does come to Nashville, it won’t be played in this version of Nissan Stadium, but rather the new $2.1 billion dollar that should be breaking ground by 2026.
Between the moderate weather, the infrastructure and energy of the city, and now, likely, a brand new stadium—Nissan Stadium—or whatever its name potentially gets changed to, is a MUST for the NFL to have host the Super Bowl.
Bank of America Stadium
For similar reasons, it would be great to see Charlotte host the big game at Bank of America Stadium.
Now, they aren’t going to get a whole new facility… But owner David Tepper has talked about implementing some serious renovations to what is already a relatively new stadium.
And while Charlotte doesn’t quite the massive party scene or reputation that Nashville has, it is a burgeoning, young city—with plenty to do—and a hub airport that is well suited to welcome the many visitors to the city.
On top of that, the Panthers are one of 16 teams that still have not hosted a Super Bowl, but there are only a couple on the list that have climates temperate enough for the NFL’s standards. It may not be 75 and sunny like Miami, but the temperature is usually in the mid 50s in Charlotte that time of year.
So, the NFL may as well throw city a bone, especially since it has been such good sports about its team losing every time its made it to the Super Bowl!
