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WHAT: Super Bowl 55, for the 2020 championship of the National Football League
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. (ET), Sunday, February 7
WHERE: Raymond James Stadium; Tampa (75,000 expanded; 22,000 permitted)
AFC champions (visitors): Kansas City Chiefs, 16-2, AFC West Division champions, top playoff seed
NFC champions (home): Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 14-5, second place in NFC South Division, fifth playoff seed
TV: WJZ-TV, Channel 13 (Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, booth; Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn, Jay Feely, sidelines)
RADIO: WJZ-FM, 105.7, via Westwood One (Kevin Harlan, Kurt Warner, booth; Laura Okmin, Tony Boselli, sidelines)
REFEREE: Carl Cheffers (second Super Bowl)
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—Because of the quarterback duel between Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, Sunday’s matchup is drawing unprecedented international attention to America’s premier sports event. Over 185 million people are expected to watch the game. And, just in the U.S. alone, the American Gaming Association estimates that 23.2 million Americans will bet a total of $4.3 billion on the game.
—This will be the fourth time in league history the Super Bowl will take place in the same state in back-to-back years and the first time since 2009 and 2010 when Florida hosted the Super Bowl in consecutive years. Super Bowl 43 (Steelers-Cardinals) was held in Tampa, and Super Bowl 44 (Saints-Colts) took place in Miami Gardens (Hard Rock Stadium).
–This year’s game will be the third at Raymond James Stadium and the fifth Super Bowl to be held in Tampa. Two different stadiums in the Miami metropolitan area have hosted 11 Super Bowls, one more than New Orleans’ ten, and two different facilities. In all, 25 different stadiums have hosted Super Bowls, with 18 games indoors. Among individual stadiums, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans has hosted the most Super Bowls (seven), and it is already booked to host Super Bowl 59 in February of 2025. Two different stadiums have also hosted Super Bowls in Houston (Rice Stadium, NRG Stadium) and the Phoenix area (Sun Devil Stadium, State Farm Stadium).
—There have also been six Super Bowls held at college-campus stadiums–three at Tulane (4, 6, 9) and one each at Arizona State (30), Rice (8), and Stanford (19). The warmest Super Bowl was 7 (Miami-Washington) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (84 degrees at kickoff), and the coldest was 6 (Dallas-Miami) in New Orleans, an outdoor game at Tulane University Stadium, played in 39-degree chill.
–This year’s Super Bowl will be the 19th to be played in February and the 18th consecutive game to be pushed into the calendar year’s second month. The first February Super Bowl was 36 (Rams-Patriots), which was moved back by necessity, as that season’s Week Two slate of games was postponed due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks (and made up in early January). Due to fewer playoff rounds and fewer teams in the league, the earliest Super Bowl by date was 11 (Raiders-Vikings), which was played on January 9, 1977. The latest games took place on February 7, which has occurred twice (44, 50) and is happening again this year.
–The Super Bowl is dead even, with the NFC representatives (before 1970, the pre-merger NFL champions) having won 27 Super Bowls, the same number as their AFC opponents (or pre-merger AFL champions). It has been rather even lately, with the two conferences splitting 12 games before Kansas City’s win last year.
–Only five Super Bowls have featured comebacks of ten or more points by the winning team. They were Washington over Denver (22), New Orleans over Indianapolis (44), New England over Seattle (49), Kansas City over San Francisco (54), and the Patriots’ 25-point rally over Atlanta in Super Bowl 51.
–-New England leads all franchises, having participated in 11 Super Bowls (6-5). Two years ago, it broke its own record for the most by any franchise, further relegating Dallas (5-3), Pittsburgh (6-2), and Denver (3-5) to second place with eight each. San Francisco, last year’s Super Bowl runner-up, is close behind with seven (5-2), but it has lost in each of its last two appearances. However, the Patriots have five losses in the big game, tied for the most with Denver. Tied for the second-most defeats are Buffalo and Minnesota (0-4 each).
–Since the current postseason format was instituted in 1990, only seven Super Bowls, including the recent Philadelphia-New England matchup (Super Bowl 52), have featured the No. 1 seed from each conference. Four years ago, Atlanta was the No. 2 NFC seed, breaking a streak of three Super Bowls that saw the top seeds square off. This year’s game features the fifth seed in Tampa Bay and the top AFC seed in Kansas City. Tampa Bay becomes the fourth team to win three road playoff games to reach a Super Bowl. The others ended up winning the championship.
–This year’s game is an odd-numbered Super Bowl (55), the NFC champion (Tampa Bay) is the designated home team and will have jersey choice, and teams with choice usually choose dark home tops. The Buccaneers will likely wear their standard pewter jerseys with bronze pants, their usual home attire. Teams with jersey choices are 22-32 in Super Bowls, but teams wearing white jerseys – whether they had the choice or not – have won 13 of the last 16 Super Bowls. Kansas City likely will wear white tops and red pants this year.
–The designated home team, Tampa Bay, will have its logo painted in the left-side side end zone and occupy the near-side bench at Raymond James Stadium (closest to the main television camera). Kansas City, the designated visiting team, will have its logo painted in the right-side end zone and occupy the far-side bench (furthest away from the main television camera). The NFL shield logo will be painted at midfield, and the official Super Bowl 55 logo will appear on the 25-yard lines at both ends of the field.
–Teams that win the coin toss are 23-31 in Super Bowls and have lost the last six straight games. Ever since deferring the choice became an option, teams that have done so have lost the game eight of 11 times. In Super Bowl 44, New Orleans became the only team to elect to receive in the deferral era; it won the game over Indianapolis in Miami.
–Teams that have led at halftime of the Super Bowl are 39-11. Four games have been tied at the half: Super Bowl 54 (San Francisco-Kansas City, 10-10), Super Bowl 49 (New England-Seattle, 14-14), Super Bowl 39 (New England-Philadelphia, 7-7), and Super Bowl 23 (Cincinnati-San Francisco, 3-3). Teams that score first are 36-18 in Super Bowls. The eventual winner has scored first in eight of the last ten Super Bowls.
–-There have been ten kick-return scores in Super Bowl history, but only four by members of the eventual winning team. They included two by the Ravens (Desmond Howard, Super Bowl 31; Jermaine Lewis, 35; Jacoby Jones, 47; Percy Harvin, 48). In Super Bowl 41 in Miami, Chicago’s Devin Hester became the only player to run back the Super Bowl’s opening kickoff for a touchdown. Two players have run back the second-half kickoff for a score, Baltimore’s Jones and Seattle’s Harvin; those took place in consecutive years.
–Surprisingly, there has never been a punt-return touchdown in a Super Bowl. The longest such runback was 61 yards by Denver’s Jordan Norwood in Super Bowl 50 against Carolina. There has never been a shutout in a Super Bowl, and there had never been an overtime Super Bowl until just four years ago when New England outlasted Atlanta.
–There have been seven safeties in Super Bowl history. The most recent came on the first scrimmage play of Super Bowl 48 when a shotgun-formation snap sailed over Peyton Manning’s head and out through the back of the end zone only 12 seconds into the game. Teams that have scored safeties in Super Bowls are 5-2. There have been only three field goals of 51 or more yards in Super Bowl history, and the teams that have kicked them are 1-2 in the title game. The longest is a 54-yarder kicked by Buffalo’s Steve Christie against Dallas in Super Bowl 28 in Atlanta.
–Only two of 54 Super Bowls have been completely free of turnovers. They were Super Bowl 25 (Bills-Giants) and Super Bowl 34 (Titans-Rams). The fewest combined penalties in any Super Bowl were the two committed by Dallas and Pittsburgh in Super Bowl 10, and the most are the 20 that Dallas and Denver committed in Super Bowl 12. Four teams have played an entire Super Bowl without being flagged: Miami in Super Bowl 6, Pittsburgh in Super Bowl 10, Denver in Super Bowl 24, and Atlanta in Super Bowl 33. However, those teams are 1-3 in those games, with only Pittsburgh winning.
–With five wins in eight Super Bowls, the Dallas Cowboys hold the Super Bowl record for best cumulative turnover ratio in Super Bowl games at plus-20. The Buffalo Bills, losers in all four appearances, have the all-time worst mark at minus-13. Four franchises have never thrown an interception in a Super Bowl, but the Baltimore Ravens are the only ones who have never done so while appearing in more than one game. Six teams have never lost a fumble in a Super Bowl, but only Seattle and Kansas City have done so while appearing in multiple games.
–There have been 13 missed extra points during Super Bowls and ten two-point conversions. Two of each failed in Super Bowl 52 (Patriots-Eagles). There have been six fumble returns for Super Bowl touchdowns (including two by Dallas in Super Bowl 28 in Atlanta). Teams are 4-2 when accomplishing that feat, including wins by the last four straight teams that have done so. There have been 15 interception returns for scores in Super Bowls (including two by Tampa Bay’s Dwight Smith in Super Bowl 37), but only one by a member of the eventual losing team; Atlanta’s Robert Alford, who did it against New England in Super Bowl 51.
–As is always the case with Super Bowl opponents, Kansas City and Tampa Bay haven’t played each other often since they come from opposite conferences. The league’s schedule formula only has such teams meeting once every four years. The Buccaneers lead the overall regular-season series, 7-6, with Tampa Bay winning two of its first three meetings with the Chiefs, as well as five of the last six. The teams met earlier this season, with Kansas City winning. In Tampa, the Super Bowl meeting site, the Buccaneers have won four of seven meetings against the Chiefs. Before this year’s game, Kansas City had not beaten Tampa Bay since a 1993 blowout in Tampa, 27-3.
–There have been 59 players to win the Super Bowl with more than one team. They include Baltimore Colts linebacker Ted Hendricks, quarterback Earl Morrall, and center Bill Curry and Ravens players Terrell Suggs, Robert Bailey, Billy Davis, and Dannell Ellerbe, Corey Graham, Marcus Nash, Shannon Sharpe, Torrey Smith, and Harry Swayne. In fact, Ellerbe, Graham, and Smith were all on the Philadelphia team that won Super Bowl 52.
–There have been 33 head and assistant coaches who have won Super Bowls with more than one team. They include ex-Ravens assistants Dean Pees, Wilbert Montgomery, Milt Jackson, Jim Caldwell, and Russ Purnell. Former Ravens assistant Steve Spagnuolo has two rings, but neither with the Ravens (New York Giants, 42; Kansas City Chiefs, 54). Twenty-three individuals have won Super Bowls as both a player and a coach, including former Baltimore assistants Matt Cavanaugh and Todd Washington.
–There have been 19 pairs of fathers and sons played in Super Bowls and 31 sets of brothers. The relatives include Ravens defenders Peter Boulware (Michael, with Seattle), Cornell Brown (Ruben, with Buffalo), Ma’ake Kemoeatu (Chris, with Pittsburgh), Jamie Sharper (Darren, with Green Bay), and Arthur Jones (Chandler, with New England).
–Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady has six championship rings, more than any Super Bowl-era NFL player. At 43 years old, he will become the oldest player to ever appear in a Super Bowl; currently, that distinction is held by ex-Ravens kicker Matt Stover, who played for Indianapolis at Super Bowl 44 (42 years, 11 days). The youngest player in Super Bowl game-day history is Baltimore running back Jamal Lewis, a rookie who was 21 years, 155 days old at Super Bowl 35 (also played in Tampa).
–New England’s Bill Belichick’s six Super Bowl wins are the most among any head coach. Pittsburgh’s Chuck Noll won it four times, and Washington’s Joe Gibbs and San Francisco’s Bill Walsh each won three Super Bowls. All of those coaches pulled off multiple wins with the same franchise. Nine head coaches have won two Super Bowls each, including Hall of Fame coaches–Vince Lombardi, Bill Parcells, Tom Landry, Don Shula, Jimmy Johnson, and Tom Flores. Tampa Bay’s Bruce Arians, at 68, will this year become the second-oldest Super Bowl head coach.
–There have been seven head coaches to take their teams to a Super Bowl in their first season coaching that team. Neither one of this year’s Super Bowl head coaches is a rookie with his team. The seven are Don McCafferty (Baltimore, Super Bowl 5), Red Miller (Denver, 12), George Seifert (San Francisco, 24), Jon Gruden (Tampa Bay, 37), Bill Callahan (Oakland, 37), Jim Caldwell (Indianapolis, 44) and Gary Kubiak (Denver, 50). Those first-time Super Bowl head coaches went 4-3 in those games.
–Kansas City head coach Andy Reid finally won a Super Bowl last year during a long career coaching the Chiefs and Philadelphia. His many playoff trips have led to 17 postseason wins, tied for fourth-most on the all-time list with former Washington coach Joe Gibbs. Ahead of those two are Bill Belichick (31), Tom Landry (20), and Don Shula (19).
–Last year, Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes becomes the first Super Bowl starting quarterback to wear 15 since the New York Giants’ Jeff Hostetler in Super Bowl 25. Quarterbacks with that number are 4-2 in the big game. Tampa Bay’s Tom Brady wears #12 – the most frequent starting-quarterback number in Super Bowl history – and those signal-callers are 16-13 in Super Bowls.
–Two years ago, Los Angeles’ Jared Goff was only the fourth different Super Bowl starting quarterback to wear #16 and the first since San Francisco’s Joe Montana in Super Bowl 24. Quarterbacks that have worn the 16 jerseys are 7-2 in Super Bowls, losing only with Len Dawson in the first Super Bowl and Miami’s David Woodley in Super Bowl 17.
–Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady, making his record tenth Super Bowl appearance, will become the fourth quarterback in Super Bowl history to make multiple starts in the big game with different teams. The other three are Peyton Manning (Indianapolis, Super Bowls 41 and 44; Denver, Super Bowls 48 and 50), Craig Morton (Dallas, Super Bowl 5; Denver, Super Bowl 12) and Kurt Warner (St. Louis, Super Bowls 34 and 36; Arizona, Super Bowl 43).
–Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes becomes the first quarterback to win six playoff games before turning 26 and the fourth quarterback in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl twice within his first four seasons in the league. He joins Kurt Warner, Tom Brady, and Russell Wilson. However, only Brady went 2-0 in those three of those games, so Mahomes has a chance to join him in that exclusive club. This year’s game is also the first Super Bowl between quarterbacks who won the previous two games, as well as the seventh between signal-callers that have already won a Super Bowl.
–Mahomes’ career has been extraordinary, but there’s this astonishing fact: Mahomes’ teams have not lost a game by more than one possession in four seasons. The last time it happened was when he played for Texas Tech in 2016; Iowa State blew out him and his Red Raiders teammates, 66-10.
–The two teams in this Super Bowl have historical resumes that are a study in extremes. In regular-season play, Tampa Bay, a team born out of expansion in 1976, has posted a 278-429-1 record (.393), a winning percentage ranking at the very bottom of the NFL. This is the first time in NFL history a team ranking at the bottom of all-time win percentage is playing for a title, and it’s happened only once in the last 50 years in Major League Baseball; ironically, it was done by the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays (.417 at the time), who lost that year’s World Series to Philadelphia.
–As for Kansas City, an original American Football League member in 1960 as the Dallas Texans before moving in 1963, its regular-season record is 495-425-12 (.538). That standing ranks eighth all-time leaguewide and fourth in the AFC, trailing only Baltimore, New England, and Miami. In all-time postseason play, Tampa Bay’s .500 win rate (9-9) ties it for 11th-best with Philadelphia and Jacksonville, while Kansas City’s .441 win percentage (15-19) ranks it 22nd.
–Tampa Bay got into the playoffs via the wild-card route, and no team in ten years has made the Super Bowl that way until now. The last team to do it was the 2010 Green Bay Packers, who became the sixth wild-card team to win a Super Bowl. The last team that made the Super Bowl after winning a division and playing on Wild Card Weekend was the 2012 Baltimore Ravens.
–Tampa Bay will become the first Super Bowl participant to play in its home stadium, although ticket allocation, already restricted due to COVID, is usually spread throughout the league. To corporate sponsors, so the stadium will not be filled with Buccaneer fans. Two teams have played in Super Bowls in their home areas; San Francisco beat Miami in Super Bowl 19 at Stanford Stadium, and the Los Angeles Rams, playing in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl 14.
–Due to Super Bowls being played at neutral sites, the last NFL champion to win a title on its home field was the 1965 Green Bay Packers, who beat Cleveland. In fact, no team in this country’s four major sports (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA) has won a championship at home since the 2017 Golden State Warriors, who won that year’s NBA Finals over Cleveland.
–Before the Super Bowl was born, the NFL Championship Game featured the Western Conference winner hosting the game in odd-numbered years, with the Eastern champ hosting in even-numbered years, regardless of record. That practice continued through the 1969 season, then disappeared after the merger took effect.
–To debunk a long-held myth about the game, there have been seven Super Bowls that have been played just one week after the conference title games, and those games have had an average final margin of 11.4 points. The other 47 Super Bowls, played after a two-week break, have not been drastically less competitive, as many believe, for they have had an average margin of just under 15 points. There are no plans in the future to reduce the gap between the conference title games and the Super Bowl to one week; the last time there was such a short break before Super Bowl 37 (Raiders-Buccaneers). Six of the last ten Super Bowls, all with a two-week break beforehand, have been decided by eight or fewer points.
–In 54 previous Super Bowls, quarterbacks have been named the game’s Most Valuable Player 30 times, including after ten of the last 14 games. After late commissioner Pete Rozelle, the MVP trophy started with Super Bowl 25 (Bills-Giants, in the old Tampa Stadium), the first Super Bowl to take place after his death.
–Before Super Bowl 5 (Colts-Cowboys), the winners’ trophy was affixed with the name of late Green Bay and Washington’s head coach Vince Lombardi, who died just before starting the 1970 season. The trophy is a sterling silver trophy created by Tiffany & Company, featuring a regulation-size silver football mounted on a tee, sitting on a pyramid-like stand of three sides. The trophy stands 20.75 inches tall, weighs 107.3 ounces, and is worth more than $25,000. The words “Vince Lombardi Trophy” and “Super Bowl LV” are engraved on the base, along with the NFL shield logo.
–The Lombardi Trophy will be carried to the post-game victory platform by a yet-to-be-announced football dignitary. This practice was instituted at Super Bowl 40 in Detroit (Seahawks-Steelers). Those who have performed this task have included former Baltimore Colts coach Don Shula, Navy quarterback Roger Staubach, and Colts receiver Raymond Berry. Former Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath has performed this task twice.
–Veteran referee Carl Cheffers will work his second Super Bowl as the lead official. He was the alternate referee at Super Bowl 49 (Patriots-Seahawks) and wore the white hat as the main office at Super Bowl 51 (Patriots-Falcons). He worked this year’s Divisional round game between Baltimore and Buffalo. This year’s mixed crew will also include down judge Sarah Thomas, the first-ever female to be part of a Super Bowl crew; she has been in the NFL for six seasons. Thomas already has worked one postseason game, a 2018 Divisional round game between New England and the Los Angeles Chargers.
–Retired referee Jerry Markbreit holds the head-official record with four Super Bowl assignments. Norm Schachter, Jim Tunney, Pat Haggerty, Bob McElwee, and former Howard County high school ref Terry McAulay have done three Super Bowls each. Ben Dreith, Tom Bell, Ed Hochuli, Red Cashion, Jerry Seeman, Gerry Austin, Bernie Kukar, Bill Vinovich, John Parry, and Cheffers have all been assigned two Super Bowls.
–CBS will handle the telecast, marking its record 21st Super Bowl, two more than NBC. Last year, Fox broadcast its ninth Super Bowl. CBS and NBC each aired Super Bowl 1 (Chiefs-Packers) with different announce teams and camera crews. ABC, which is no longer part of the current Super Bowl telecast rotation, has shown seven. NBC will show next year’s game, which will be played on February 6, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The game will begin at the usual 6:30 ET time; the Super Bowl has kicked off at 6 p.m. or later (ET) each year since Super Bowl 26 (Redskins-Bills). The last Super Bowl to be played entirely in daylight was Super Bowl 11 (Raiders-Vikings) in Pasadena.
–CBS’ Jim Nantz will call the play-by-play for his sixth Super Bowl, tying him with Fox’s Joe Buck, who called his sixth last year. Two years ago, NBC’s Al Michaels worked his tenth Super Bowl (six with ABC, four with NBC), one short of Pat Summerall’s record of 11 (eight for CBS, three on Fox). Michaels will tie Summerall next year. Summerall did the color analysis on four additional Super Bowls.
–NBC’s Dick Enberg called eight Super Bowls, and Curt Gowdy did seven, also for NBC. Ray Scott had the call for four Super Bowls for CBS, while Greg Gumbel has done two big games on the same network. Frank Gifford (ABC) and Jack Buck (CBS) each called one. Gowdy and Scott both called Super Bowl 1, working on separate broadcasts with separate networks, as NBC had the AFL contract at the time, while CBS held the NFL rights.
–In the current Super Bowl rotation, this year would have actually been NBC’s turn to broadcast the game. But a deal was struck for NBC and CBS to switch places so that NBC could use next year’s Super Bowl to cross-promote its coverage of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. Then again, that event could be compromised due to the COVID pandemic.
–Kevin Harlan will handle the Westwood One radio call for an 11th straight year. Harlan succeeded the legendary Marv Albert. Ex-Maryland quarterback and current CBS studio analyst Boomer Esiason worked with Harlan for 18 consecutive Super Bowl assignments. Still, Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner took Esiason’s place two years ago. Warner was 1-2 in Super Bowls, splitting two as the Rams’ quarterback (winning 34, losing 36) and losing Super Bowl 43 with Arizona.
—The highest-rated Super Bowl was 16 (49ers-Bengals), which posted a 49.1 reading for CBS. Super Bowl 10 (Cowboys-Steelers) pulled a Super Bowl-record 78 percent share, also on CBS, indicating how many television sets in the country were used for the entire game. But the highest number of average viewers were tuned in during Super Bowl 51 (Patriots-Falcons) on Fox, during which over 172 million fans watched at least a part of the broadcast. A sign of the times: last year’s 41.6 rating was tied for the second-lowest Super Bowl rating since Super Bowl 39 (Patriots-Eagles).
–Over four million fans (4,147,231) have watched Super Bowls in person. This year’s crowd is projected to be about 22,000 fans, less than one-third of Raymond James Stadium’s expanded capacity, already making it the smallest-ever Super Bowl crowd due to COVID restrictions. The largest crowd was 103,985 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to watch Pittsburgh and the Los Angeles Rams (14).
–The smallest non-virus Super Bowl crowd (61,946) showed up for the first Super Bowl between Green Bay and Kansas City at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Interestingly, the second-smallest showed up just last year (62,417) to see the San Francisco-Kansas City battle at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.
–This year’s Super Bowl will pay out a record $130,000 per player to the winning team and $65,000 per man to the runners-up. Those figures are up a respective $6,000 and $3,000 from last year. This year’s game marks the eighth straight year the payouts have increased. A 30-second advertising spot on television will cost $5.6 million, the same as last year; however, notable ad presences such as Budweiser, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi are not producing spots for this year’s game.
–A popular theory states that when the NFC representative wins the Super Bowl, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will end that calendar year higher and that an AFC win will send the market lower by year’s end. That theory has been correct after 40 of 54 previous Super Bowls, yet it has been wrong for the last five straight years and six of the last eight.
–The honorary coin-toss captains will be three standouts who have helped others during the COVID pandemic. They are educator Trimaine Davis, nurse and ICU unit manager Suzie Dorner and military veteran James Martin (USMC). In the past, that task has been performed by other military veterans, former and sitting Presidents of the United States, and newly-elected members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame class for that particular year. National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman, who appeared at this year’s Presidential inauguration, will read an original poem before the game.
–Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church have been tapped to sing the national anthem. “America The Beautiful” will also be performed; both songs have been sung at the Super Bowl since 2009, although “America The Beautiful” was also sung once previously, four years earlier. It will be sung this year by H.E.R. Both songs will be signed for the deaf audience by Warren Snipe. Chart-topping pop star The Weeknd will perform at halftime; it will be his debut Super Bowl appearance. The pregame, the off-site concert will be headlined by Miley Cyrus. The anthem will be accompanied by three Air Force bombers, performing a triple flyover for the first time at a Super Bowl.
–Next year’s game (Super Bowl 56) will occur on Sunday, February 6, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, near Los Angeles. The stadium is on the former Hollywood Park thoroughbred race track grounds and is near The Forum, the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers’ former home.
–Next year’s game will be the eighth Super Bowl to take place in the Los Angeles area–the first in 29 years. Super Bowl 27 at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl (Bills-Cowboys) was the most recent to take place there. SoFi Stadium’s Super Bowl will make Los Angeles the first city to have had three different stadiums host the game (Los Angeles Coliseum, Rose Bowl). Next year’s Super Bowl will be televised by NBC, with Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth (booth), and Michele Tafoya (sidelines) on the call.
