When will a Super Bowl be played again at AT&T Stadium?

The mild weather the weekend before the game was glorious.

Bill Lively and Cowboys Vice President Charlotte Jones were talking about this the other day as they reminisced about all the work that went into hosting Super Bowl XLV in North Texas 10 years ago.

“A few days later,” recalled Lively, president and CEO of the host committee, “I was going to channel 8 for an interview and I couldn’t open the door because it was frozen.”

For now, the door to bringing this event back to AT&T Stadium in Arlington remains closed, but Cowboys officials and key members of the initial host committee are convinced the game will return.

When? If you look at the future Super Bowl sites already in place, and factor in the search for the World Cup in the region, the logical first place on the calendar for the Super Bowl to return is February 2027.

The renewal everyone wants is at least six years away.

“We will always be involved in the process of trying to bring the Super Bowl back to North Texas,” said Stephen Jones, the Cowboys’ chief operating officer.

“Over the past 12 years, AT&T Stadium, the largest stadium in the NFL, has proven its worth by hosting the biggest and best events the world of sports and entertainment has to offer.

“We know the NFL has a current roster and process for future sites, but we will continue to be active participants in presenting our stadium and our region as a future host,” the executive said.

Ten years after the Super Bowl at AT&T Stadium, Lively continues to recount the anecdote of the weather.

When people find out that he led the effort to bring the Super Bowl here, they rarely ask about the game between Green Bay and Pittsburgh.

When friends and acquaintances reflect on that week, the first words that come out of their mouths generally have nothing to do with the massive undertaking or the unprecedented level of coordination and collaboration that took place between so many cities and counties.

“They almost always remember the weather,” Lively said.

That memory is etched, okay, maybe frozen is the best word, of everyone who lived or worked in the area during that week.

Shortly after the arrival of the two teams, the Mercury plummeted.

The temperature did not exceed 27 degrees for more than three days.

Troy Aikman was vice chair of the Super Bowl host committee.

“I got to see firsthand how much planning and preparation and all the people, the volunteers, who really put in the effort to make this a great week and a Super Bowl experience,” said the Hall of Fame quarterback. .

“And then making the weather do what it did … it was heartbreaking for the city and for so many people.”

The freezing weather and the complications that arose is the narrative that emerged from that week.

But that Super Bowl put an infrastructure in place and created a template on how to host big events in the future.

This area is the only one in the country that has hosted a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a college football championship, a World Series and a World Cup game.

It remains to be seen if the future holds a new Super bowl for the city of Dallas.

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