It is official. The
NFL team owners have voted today to have San Francisco host the 50th
Super Bowl in 2016. San Francisco has been competing for the bid with South Florida. They are in the process of building a new stadium for the
49ers that will be the most technological advanced stadium in the world and is due to be opened for the 2014 season. On the other hand they were competing with the
Dolphins whose 26 year old stadium is dire needs of repair. The estimated cost of repairs is $350 million and the state legislature has refused to help out with the funds. This led to their losing the bid twice, in 2016 to San Francisco and in 2017 to
Houston. The chairman of the South Florida bid committee Rodney Barreto said "I suspect there's a couple of state reps down in Miami-Dade County where I live who are going to look at this and realize this was a huge mistake We had the better bid. I could just look at the body language from the
NFL staff. It's a shame. We may not see another
Super Bowl for another 10 years.""
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