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Steelers submit application to host 2023 Super Bowl
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The Pittsburgh Steelers officially submitted an application in May to host Super Bowl LVII at Heinz Field in 2023, the team announced. Additionally, Steelers officials met with community leaders Wednesday to discuss the possibility.
“We met this morning with local community leaders to provide an update on formally submitting our application to the NFL to bid for Super Bowl LVII in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania,” said team president Art Rooney in a statement. “The application is an early step in the bidding process, and we will continue to meet with representatives of the Mayor’s Office, County Executive’s Office, VisitPittsburgh, Allegheny Conference as well as other community leaders to review the requirements with the hopes of submitting our bid to host Super Bowl LVII in 2023.”
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The application far from guarantees a bid, but the team said it was encouraged by Super Bowl XLVIII, which was held in New Jersey and was the first Super Bowl played outdoors in a northern climate.
Super Bowl XL in 2006 was played indoors in Detroit and Super Bowl LII in 2018 was awarded to U.S. Bank, the new indoor stadium for the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis. But would the NFL really go forward with playing its biggest game in potentially frigid conditions? The average high temperature in Pittsburgh in February is 39 degrees – a bit colder than the New York City area, where Super Bowl XLVIII was held without weather becoming an issue.
With the application now submitted, the NFL will meet with Pittsburgh and other interested cities in 2018 to “discuss logistics and venues available.” The Steelers said they are “researching other regions, including sending representatives to Northern cities that have already hosted the game” to prepare for their meeting with the NFL.
If the Steelers get the right to bid on the game, finalists for Super Bowl LVII won’t be decided until October 2018 with the winning city announced in May 2019.
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