With the biggest game of the 2021-2022 NFL season just a few weeks away, and after the most exciting divisional games in recent years, it’s worth remembering why the Super Bowl LVI will be played on a different date to which we are accustomed, that is to say, that it will not take place on the first Sunday of February as is tradition.
It was in March 2021 when the National Football League (NFL) officially reported a new schedule with 17 weeks, which was extended, as rumors indicated, one more game to the regular season and thus meant a great change for the entire league. It was precisely for this reason that Super Bowl LVI was scheduled to take place. a week later.
Such a change, that is, go from 16 to 17 games in the regular season, It hadn’t happened in 44 years. Finally, at last year’s team owners’ meeting, the change was approved and accepted by the players despite some rebuttal on their part.
regular season started on Thursday, September 9 with the game between the champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys; the last one was last Sunday, January 9, with the duel between Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers.
Given the change from 16 to 17 weeks for the regular season, Super Bowl LVI it will be played on Sunday, February 13, 2022; It will be then that the winners of the American and national conferences will face each other for the Vince Lombardi trophy at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
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