INGLEWOOD, California— With the Super Bowl just a month away, preparations for its realization are advancing at full speed for what will be the return of the NFL‘s biggest event to the place where it began.
Both NFL representatives and local organizers ensure that the championship game will stay in the Los Angeles area.
The NFL has no plans to bring the Super Bowl to Arlington, Texas, or another city despite the recent spike in COVID-19 cases and California sanitation measures, officials at SoFi Stadium confirmed Thursday during a rally. press on the occasion of the month before the 56th Super Bowl to be played on February 13.
“All of our plans for Super Bowl week will continue for one month from today,” said Katie Keenan, NFL’s senior director of events operations. “We are working with everyone here, with the Los Angeles County Health Department, to ensure that all of our events are held safely.”
The first Super Bowl was played at the Coliseum in downtown Los Angeles in January 1967. The 56th edition will be played for the first time at the two-year-old stadium of Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke. opened in the summer of 2020 south of Los Angeles.
The stadium is uniquely designed to be open or closed. It includes a translucent roof and a ventilation system whose current flows from the open ends located at the top of a low-rise bowl.
The NFL’s announcement earlier this month that it might examine the possibility of using the Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium as an alternate venue for the Super Bowl caused a media stir, should California regulations prevent the league from holding it in this place.
The NFL immediately confirmed that it finds alternate venues for the Super Bowl each year and that the possibility that the match could not take place in Inglewood was keeping him awake.
Several California universities limited their capacity for indoor sports competitions in January after several postponements related to the coronavirus.
However, those decisions were made by the universities and not by state order. Professional sports teams in Southern California did not follow suit – both the Rams and the Chargers were full in January.
Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff noted that SoFi had extensive coronavirus safety protocols in place during the 17 regular-season games the Rams and Chargers played at the stadium.
Those precautions will continue for Monday night, in the first postseason game in the property’s history, where the fourth-seeded Rams (12-5) host the Arizona Cardinals (11-6).
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