With the Tremendous Bowl only one month away, preparations are in full swing for the return of the NFL’s premier occasion to the place the place it began
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — With the Tremendous Bowl only one month away, preparations are in full swing for the return of the NFL’s premier occasion to the place the place it began.
And each NFL officers and native organizers say the championship sport is not leaving the Los Angeles space.
The NFL has no plans to maneuver the Tremendous Bowl to Arlington, Texas, or anyplace else regardless of the current rise in COVID-19 instances and the accompanying well being precautions in California, a number of officers confirmed Thursday at SoFi Stadium throughout a media occasion held to mark one month earlier than the 56th version of the Tremendous Bowl on Feb. 13.
“All of our plans for Tremendous Bowl week stay totally in place for a month from at present,” stated Katie Keenan, the NFL’s senior director of occasion operations. “We’re working together with everybody right here, with the LA County Well being Division, to ensure all of our occasions are being held safely.”
The primary Tremendous Bowl was held on the Coliseum in downtown Los Angeles in January 1967. The 56th version can be held for the primary time at Los Angeles Rams proprietor Stan Kroenke’s 2-year-old stadium, which opened in the summertime of 2020 simply south of Los Angeles with a novel indoor-outdoor design that features each a translucent roof and vital air circulation from the open ends above the low-slung bowl.
A media fuss was raised earlier this month when the NFL explored the feasibility of utilizing the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium as a backup website for the Tremendous Bowl, ostensibly in case coronavirus guidelines in California had been to forestall the league from staging a Tremendous Bowl right here.
The NFL instantly confirmed that it finds backup websites for the Tremendous Bowl yearly, and it had no critical issues about its means to carry the sport in Inglewood.
A number of California universities have sharply restricted fan attendance at indoor sporting occasions in January after a sequence of coronavirus-related postponements. However these choices had been made by the schools fairly than by state mandate, and Southern California’s skilled sports activities groups have not adopted swimsuit, with the Rams and Chargers welcoming full homes in January.
Kevin Demoff, the Rams’ chief working officer, famous that SoFi has had intensive coronavirus security protocols in place for all 17 regular-season video games performed on the stadium by the Rams and the Chargers. These precautions are nonetheless in place Monday night time for the primary playoff sport within the stadium’s historical past when the fourth-seeded Rams (12-5) host the Arizona Cardinals (11-6).
“I don’t suppose anyone has ever wavered on with the ability to play this sport right here and play it safely,” Demoff stated. “We have had an incredible, secure surroundings all 12 months. We’re lucky that is an outside facility the place the air will get in. We really feel this constructing could be very secure. Individuals who come to our video games have realized to be secure, and we’re doing every part we will to be secure.”
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