Atlanta Falcons: Atlanta to host 2019 Super Bowl
On Tuesday, May 24, NFL owners awarded the 2019 Super Bowl LIII to the city of Atlanta to be held at the Atlanta Falcons Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
It’s no surprise that Atlanta was awarded a Super Bowl, as the league typically rewards cities with new venues. The $1.4 billion state of the art Mercedes-Benz Stadium is currently under construction and will be ready to open by the summer of 2017.
Super Bowl LIII in 2019 will be the third Super Bowl that the city of Atlanta has seen. The first was Super Bowl XVIII in 1994, and the second was Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000.
In the NFL owners spring meeting on Tuesday evening, Atlanta was the first of three cities named to host future Super Bowl games. The other two cities were Miami for the 2020 Super Bowl, and Los Angeles for the 2021 game.
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Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, who was the driving force behind the building of the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium, was reportedly “over the moon” that Atlanta would be receiving the big game.
Blank told Channel 2 Action News’ Dave Huddleston, “We’re honored to accept the award of my partners for the 2019 Super Bowl, on behalf of Atlanta. The region and the National Football League, there’s so many people to thank. It’s like accepting an Academy Award — you don’t know where to start, and you’re going to leave off some people.”
In regards to the new stadium, Blank told Huddleston, “Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be unique, not only in America, but throughout the world. We think it’s a great host stadium for the Super Bowl. And we love it being in downtown Atlanta.”
Hopefully this time around, Mother Nature will cooperate; unlike the last time Atlanta hosted a Super Bowl in 2000. Super Bowl XXXIV was a struggle due to the combination of a snowstorm as well as the arrest of Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Lewis on murder charges.
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank doesn’t expect that inclement weather will be an issue this time. According to Blank, “The weather in Atlanta due to climate change has changed. So it’s beautiful now. We don’t think that’ll be an issue. That was a one-in-a-hundred year freak storm.”
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Maybe by 2019, Dan Quinn and the Atlanta Falcons will have figured out a way to not only be the hosting team of Super Bowl LIII, but also the home team.