AT&T Stadium remains in world class, but Dallas Cowboys’ home fell briefly here

With another Super Bowl playing, it is another year a place that opened with the idea that it would be an ideal destination for America’s biggest annual game did not come for execution.

AT&T Stadium remains a first-class venue, but both that and DFW will never be part of NFL’s unofficial Super Bowl rotation. The achievable goal now is to just get it back once again, to correct what was a historically wrong in this area and that place in world class.

“Do we want the Super Bowl back? Hell yes, we want it back, ” Arlington Mayor Jim Ross Told Star-Telegram on January 29 at the unveiling of the new UFL headquarters, less than a mile from AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Mall.

“We always throw our name in the hat. I can tell you that we have no secret thing we hold right now. I don’t think there have been any decisions made about anything about this.

“NFL moves at their speed. There are many cities fighting for that position. “

Future Super Bowl decisions Remain at NFL’s whim. The league has announced the Super Bowl places through 2028; Santa Clara, La and Atlanta are the three immediate NFL Future Super Bowl locations.

Ross did not specify if Arlington is in the mixture for 2029 Super Bowl. He didn’t sound like that.

NFL Future Super Bowls

Announcing future Super Bowl destinations is one of the paradoxes where it is horrible, simply complex.

A Holdup is currently not only the availability of the venues and the city’s cooperation. Each city in North America wants to host a Super Bowl. Currently, the question has when it relates to the Super Bowls in 2029, and over more to do with future NFL calendars.

Last year, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell floated the goal of expanding the regular season from 17 to 18 games. In 2021 the NFL season is expanded from the season from 16 games for 17; It was the league’s first expansion of its plan for the season plan since 1978.

Goodell has made it clear that he puts no value on the preseason game and that by expanding the regular season it would shrink the exhibition plan. His vision is that the Super Bowl will be played Sunday before the president’s day.

To do this, it requires cooperation with the NFL Player’s Association during the next negotiation of a new collective negotiation agreement. The current contract between the NFL and the NFLPA expires after the 2030 season.

On Super Bowl this week In New Orleans, NFLPA CEO Lloyd Howell said: “Nobody wants to play a 18th game. No. “

This is the position between the two sides; If the story is any indication if the NFL wants an 18-match normal season, there will be an 18-game regular season.

And then there is the extra complexity for NFL’s regular seasonal matches in international markets. The league only wants to add more of these dates, a plan that the cowboys owner Jerry Jones has indirectly opposed.

He has been fighting for years not to give up a cowboys’ home match for the NFL’s international schedule, and so far the cowboys have been the “way” team in these few scenarios. In contrast, the NFL has not returned to Arlington for a Super Bowl since the city hosted it, February 6, 2011.

DFWS Super Bowl was super bad

For the DFW residents who lived here during the infamous Super Bowl -Week, there is no substance that is powerful enough to erase this experience from a memory. DFW experienced a historically terrible combination of snow and ice that lasted all week.

The weather created a myriad of scenarios that usually only last about 48 hours in this region before it “melts”. That week melted nothing.

The week, snow and ice that accumulated on top of the roof by AT&T Stadium fell and collapsed of at least six people. Both the NFL and Cowboys were sued, which was settled outside the court.

Before the Super Bowl itself, hundreds of fans who paid for tickets to watch Packers play, Steelers discovered that their seats were not their seats. In an attempt to sell several tickets, the NFL approved the addition of 13,000 temporary seats in final zones, but approx. 1,250 were considered unsafe by inspectors.

As a result, the league encrypted to put the fans in any seat possible shortly before kickoff. Seven fans sued the league and were collectively awarded $ 76,000.

Since AT&T Stadium opened in May 2009, both Los Angeles and Las Vegas now have NFL franchises in leading facilities, something that was not part of the landscape when Arlington and Cowboys collaborated to build AT&T Stadium.

At the time 2028 Super Bowl is played, New Orleans, Glendale, Ariz. Santa Clara, California, and Los Angeles will have hosted the event twice since Arlington had it.

When AT&T Stadium was in the construction phase, Arlington City managers thought the room would last about 30 years. It is the standard timeline of most new arenas/stadiums.

“AT&T Stadium will last beyond 30 years. Jerry Jones just put $ 300 million in renovations in anticipation of (2026) the World Cup and to raise the entire stadium, ”Ross said. “I don’t care where you go, this is still comparable to the best place in the world. It’s unparalleled. That’s why we got nine World Cups. “

After the World Cup ’26, the only major event that AT&T Stadium has not hosted is a major political national convention.

That and another Super Bowl.