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The super bowl of New Orleans is packed-de Philadelphia Eagles denied the Chiefs their third consecutive NFL title in a 40-22 victory and the big match of the NFL goes back to the West, with the next two championships of the competition organized By the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area, both in California.
With California, the sensitivity of the area comes to intense weather, including forest fires, floods, mud flows and earthquakes. Uncontrolled forest fires destroyed the Los Angeles area in the first week of January, forcing the NFL to move a play -off competition between the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings to explore Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz, Ariz. Earthquake hit Santa Clara County, California and registered a modest 3.3 on the Richter scale.
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This raises the question: what would happen to the Super Bowl if a disaster struck?
The NFL said in an explanation that it has back supplementary plans to move every game, from the regular season to the Super Bowl, in an emergency. But according to Jim, a former NFL director whose task it was to coordinate and to ensure that every super bowl ran smoothly, it is not that easy to move a super bowl. If a disaster struck, it is more likely that the date of the Super Bowl would be adjusted, instead of the location that is moved.
The date of the Super Bowl was moved earlier: in 2002 the game had to be reduced in New Orleans from January 27, 2002 to 3 February 2002, because the terrorist attacks on the US caused the regular seasonal matches to be a week postponed. “And as far as logistics are concerned, even that was a Herculean effort,” said Steeg, an NFL director who was responsible for the big competition until he retired in 2005.
In 1989, riots broke out in the open district of Miami only a few days before the Super Bowl had to be played between the Niners and Bengal in the neighborhood in what was then called Pro Player Stadium. Although 13 buildings were burned down, killed one person, 11 injured, 400 arrested and $ 1 million in damage, the game went off as planned without problems.
Super Bowls were planned for years in advance, with millions of dollars deposited in the project from the guest committee to sponsors and the NFL itself. The 2028 competition has already been awarded to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the home of the Falcons.
On average, Super Bowls cost the host city no less than $ 60 million to produce. In 2024, when the Super Bowl was held in Las Vegas, for example $ 40 million was collected by the Convention and the Authority of the Visitor and the other $ 20 million by the Super Bowl Host Committee.
Local authorities kick out for a year in a higher gear, the day after the previous competition ended. Hotel rooms have been booked, some fans start to reserve flights. The effort is huge.
Given all this, that is why it is almost impossible to move a super bowl at the last minute. And that is why the NFL that the Rams-Vikings Wild-Card Playoff game was so important.
On January 7, two fires started wiping through the palisades and Altadena -neighbors, in addition to other areas, eventually burned more than 16,000 structures and moved around 200,000 people. As the game day approached, the most important Blazes were hardly restricted, and it became clear that the game could not be organized by the rams. In contrast to the Super Bowl, play -off games are planned with just a week’s notice period as teams Jockey for late season on their home field and others are eliminated.
“The leading principle for us has always been, do not interfere and do everything that will have a negative influence on public safety,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told the Los Angeles Times At that time. “Make sure that you do not subsequently submerge the resources from the Responders manure.”
The Arizona Cardinals offered State Farm Stadium and borrowed two team aircraft to transport 355 players, team staff, family members, six dogs and two cats to Glendale, Ariz., With about 24 hours to be transported.
The stadium and the field were quickly painted in the Rams’s colors to give the team a home field taste. The rams beat the Vikings overwhelming for a sold-out crowd before they were eliminated the following weekend by the final super bowl champions in the snow.
It is impossible to say what Mother Nature will have in store for the next two Super Bowls in California.
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