The New Orleans Super Bowl wrapped – The Eagles of Philadelphia refused the chiefs Their third consecutive title of the NFL in a 40-22 victory – and the Big Game of the NFL fell in the West, with the next two league championships organized by the San Francisco Bay Region and the Region of Los Angeles, both in California.
With California comes the sensitivity of the region to intense weather conditions, including forest fires, floods, mudslides and earthquakes. Uncontrolled forest fires devastated the Los Angeles region in the first week of January, forcing the NFL to move an eliminatory match between the Rams of Los Angeles and the Vikings of Minnesota at the Stade de la Ferme d’Etat in Glendale , in Ariz. The earthquake struck the county of Santa Clara, California, recording a modest 3.3 on the Richter scale.
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This raises the question: what would happen to the Super Bowl if the disaster should strike?
The NFL said in a statement that he had backup plans to move each match, from the regular season to the Super Bowl, in an emergency. But according to Jim Steeg, a former NFL executive whose work was to coordinate and ensure that each Super Bowl took place gently, it is not so easy to move a Super Bowl. If the disaster should strike, it is more likely that the Date of the Super Bowl is adjusted, rather than the moved location.
The date of the Super Bowl was already moved: in 2002, the match in New Orleans had to be postponed from January 27, 2002 to February 3, 2002, because the terrorist attacks of September 11 against the United States caused the matches of The regular season to postpone for a week. “And with regard to logistics, even it was a Herculean effort,” said Steeg, an NFL executive in charge of the big game until his retirement in 2005.
In 1989, riots broke out in the Miami Overtown district just a few days before the Super Bowl between the Niners and the Bengals was played nearby in what was then called Pro Player Stadium. Despite 13 buildings be burned One person killed, 11 injured, 400 orders and $ 1 million in damage, the game went as planned without a hitch.
Super bowls are planned for years in advance, with millions of dollars paid in the project of the host committee to sponsors and the NFL itself. The 2028 game has already been awarded to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, home of Falcons.
On average, super bowls cost the host city up to $ 60 million to produce. In 2024, when the Super Bowl took place in Las Vegas, for example, 40 million dollars were collected by the Convention and the Authority of Visitors and the 20 million dollars other by the Super Bowl host committee.
Local authorities are launching high speed per year, the day after the previous match. Hotel rooms are reserved, some fans are starting to book flights. The effort is gigantic.
Given all of this, which is why it is almost impossible to move a super bowl at the last minute. And that’s why the NFL qualifiers match by moving the viking rams was so important.
On January 7, two fires began to sweep the Pacific Palisades and Altadena districts, among others, finally burning more than 16,000 structures and moving around 200,000 people. As the game day approaches, the main flames had hardly been contained, and it has become clear that the game could not be organized by the Rams. Unlike the Super Bowl, the playoffs are planned with only one week notice while the jockey teams for places in the playoffs on their land and others are eliminated.
“The principal principle for us has always been, do not interfere and do nothing that will have a negative impact on public security,” said NFL Roger Goodell Commissioner said to Los Angeles Times at the time. “Make sure you don’t care about responders’ resources.”
The Arizona cardinals offered the Stade de la Ferme de State and lent the two RAMS team planes to help transport 355 players, team staff, family members, six dogs and Two cats in Glendale, Arizona, with about 24 hours to lose.
The stadium and the field were quickly painted in the colors of the rams to give the team a flavor on the ground. The Rams have massively defeated the Vikings in front of a closed window crowds before being eliminated the following weekend by the possible champions of the Super Bowl in the snow.
We do not know what Mother Nature will have in store for the next two Super Bowls in California.
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