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Three Super Bowl sites were announced and Los Angeles is one of them

The Super Bowl will return to the Los Angeles area for the first time in almost 30 years.

The NFL announced the sites of three future Super Bowls on Tuesday, awarding Super Bowl LV to the Los Angeles Rams' new stadium project in Inglewood. The game will be played in February 2021.

It was also announced that the new Atlanta stadium will host Super Bowl LIII in 2019 and South Florida will get Super Bowl LIV in 2020.

But the crown jewel of these games awarded was L.A. and its return to the league this offseason.

"On the heels of the National Football League's historic return to Los Angeles, the Rams are proud to be part of such a significant regional effort of teamwork, leadership and vision to bring the Super Bowl back to Southern California," Rams COO Kevin Demoff said in a statement. "We would like to thank the NFL owners for giving us this opportunity to host the nation's biggest event in sports and entertainment at our world-class stadium, to showcase the great cities of Los Angeles and Inglewood and to deliver an incredible experience for fans from across the globe."

Southern California will host the Super Bowl in 2021 in Inglewood. (AP)
Southern California will host the Super Bowl in 2021 in Inglewood. (AP)

Super Bowl I was played in Los Angeles at Memorial Stadium, featuring the Green Bay Packers beating the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. Memorial also hosted Super Bowl VII (Miami Dolphins over Washington Redskins) before Pasadena's Rose Bowl became the area venue of choice for the NFL. The Rose Bowl hosted five Super Bowls from 1977 to 1993.

"Los Angeles is built to host the Super Bowl. We helped forge this great American tradition as its very first host in 1967; and now, at long last, we're bringing it back where it belongs," said Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti.

Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which is set to open before the 2017 season, was likely the tipping point to land the big game for Feb. 3, 2019. Atlanta beat New Orleans for the final vote, which came down to a fourth tiebreaker and a simple majority among voting NFL owners.

Atlanta and New Orleans made it through the first two cuts of votes for Super Bowl LIII after Tampa and Miami dropped out. New Orleans' only bid on that year's Super Bowl but without a new or significantly revamped stadium, its push was limited.

Atlanta previously has hosted two Super Bowls —  XXXIV, which was the last-play classic with the St. Louis Rams beating the Tennessee Titans, and XXVIII, which featured the Dallas Cowboys beating the Buffalo Bills to complete back-to-back championships.

With Super Bowl LIV, which will commemorate the NFL's 100th season, Miami will become the sole owner of most Super Bowls hosted (11 after LIV). It currently sits in a tie with New Orleans for the most in league history.

Although Dolphins owner Stephen Ross isn't building a new stadium, he is pledging more than $400 million of his own money into refurbishing the current structure — currently renamed New Miami Stadium, likely until the naming rights are sold (and the price just went up).

The vote was made by the NFL owners at meetings in Charlotte, N.C. Los Angeles, which has an NFL franchise again for the first time since the 1994 season, was a heavy favorite to land one of the three games up for bid, and it reached the super majority over Tampa on the first vote — there was no doubt. The L.A. bid was only a voting option for Super Bowl LV, the first year it was technically allowed to host the event because of league bylaws.

The next two Super Bowls will be played in Houston and Minneapolis.

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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at edholm@yahoo-inc.com or follow him on Twitter!