Super Bowl XLIV

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**Super Bowl XLIV**
Visiting Team	NFC Champion
Home Team	AFC Champion
Date	February 7, 2010
Stadium	Dolphin Stadium
City	Miami Gardens, Florida
TV in the United States
Network	CBS
Announcers	Jim Nantz * and Phil Simms * Expected announcer, subject to change.*

Super Bowl XLIV will be the 44th Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. The game is scheduled to be played on February 7, 2010 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, the 10th time a Super Bowl will have played in the Miami metro area. The game will also become the latest date for a Super Bowl since the first one in 1967 (a recent 'late' Super Bowl was Super Bowl XXXIX on February 6, 2005). The game will be televised in the United States on CBS, who also broadcast the ninth Super Bowl held in Miami Gardens, Florida (XLI).

On March 23, 2005, the league originally voted to have the City of New York host the game contingent on the completion of the proposed West Side Stadium, to be built for the New York Jets, by 2008.^[1]

After New York State government officials in June refused to approve $300 million for the stadium, the NFL in August decided to reopen the bidding for the game's site.^[2] The league then decided to consider the failed candidates for Super Bowl XLIII: Atlanta, Georgia, Houston, Texas, and Miami Gardens, Florida. The league eventually selected Miami Gardens on October 6.^[3]

With Tampa as the host of Super Bowl XLIII, Super Bowl XLIV will mark the third time that consecutive Super Bowls would be played in the same state. Super Bowls II and III were both played at the Miami Orange Bowl. Super Bowls XXI and XXII were both played in California: XXI at Pasadena's Rose Bowl Stadium and XXII at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium.

This game is scheduled to be the first Super Bowl carried exclusively on digital television as American television stations are scheduled to switch from analog to digital output by February 17, 2009. [4]

[edit] Footnotes

^ New York gets 2010 Super Bowl ... for now (accessed September 10, 2005)
^ NFL Owners work on contract extension; reopen 2010 SB bids (accessed September 10, 2005)
^ Atlanta, Houston, Miami to get shot at 2010 Super Bowl (accessed September 16, 2005)
^ Miami awarded 2010 Super Bowl (Accessed October 6, 2005)

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