Super Bowl XLVIII

Super Bowl XLVIII, the 48th edition of the Super Bowl and the 44th modern-era National Football League championship game, is scheduled to be played in 2014 at New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The game will be played on either February 2, 9, or 16, depending on the format of the season and schedule. It will be televised by Fox in the United States, and simulcast in Canada on CTV.

The bid to host Super Bowl XLVIII
Three stadiums placed bids to host the game. They were:


 * 1) New Meadowlands Stadium – East Rutherford, New Jersey
 * 2) Raymond James Stadium – Tampa, Florida
 * 3) Sun Life Stadium – Miami Gardens, Florida.

Tampa has hosted four Super Bowls (XVIII, XXV, XXXV, XLIII). South Florida / Miami has hosted ten Super Bowls (II, III, V, X, XIII, XXIII, XXIX, XXXIII, XLI, and XLIV).

South Florida / Miami was eliminated in the second round of voting. New Jersey beat Tampa in the fourth round of voting, after receiving a simple majority.

Since New Meadowlands Stadium does not have a roof, it will be the first cold-weather Super Bowl game played in an open stadium, and the first Super Bowl to be played in the New York metropolitan area. It will be the fifth time the Super Bowl will be held in what the NFL determines to be a "cold-weather city", joining Super Bowls XVI (Pontiac, Michigan), XXVI (Minneapolis), XL (Detroit), and XLVI (Indianapolis).

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has indicated that if Super Bowl XLVIII is successful, additional "cold-weather" Super Bowls will be considered.

Super Bowl XLVIII will be the first NFL Championship Game to be held in the New York City area since 1962, when the Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants in the original Yankee Stadium, 16-7. Since then, two other major pro football leagues have held title games in the area:


 * 1968 AFL Championship Game at Shea Stadium, December 29, 1968: New York Jets 27, Oakland Raiders 23 - a rematch of the infamous "Heidi Game". The Jets went on to Super Bowl III, where they upset the Baltimore Colts, 16-7.


 * 1985 USFL Championship Game at Giants Stadium, July 14, 1985: Baltimore Stars 28, Oakland Invaders 24. This game would turn out to be the final contest in the league's three-year history, since an attempt to move the spring/summer USFL to a fall schedule in 1986 was aborted after the USFL was awarded just $1 (trebled to $3) in its 1986 antitrust case vs. the NFL.

New York City was scheduled to host Super Bowl XLIV upon the completion of the proposed West Side Stadium. When the stadium proposal was rejected, Sun Life Stadium in Miami was selected to host the game instead.