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Build it and the Super Bowl will come.While that's not exactly how the sites of the NFL's championship extravaganza are determined Travis Fulgham Jersey Womens , it sure doesn't hurt to have a brand new, billion-dollar facility in your city.Including the 2004 game in Houston, the league will have staged nine Super Bowls in metropolitan areas with new stadiums in the past 15 years: Detroit, Phoenix, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and, now, Atlanta. Arizona and Houston actually have hosted twice, but obviously neither of those buildings was new the second time around.There's nothing written on a game plan sheet guaranteeing such an award from the NFL, it's more a nodding agreement it will happen. And it will once more in Los Angeles in 2022, and very likely in Las Vegas before the end of the next decade."It really depends, but a world-class stadium is critical, and we are going through a run with Minnesota and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and other new buildings," says Peter O'Reilly Travis Fulgham Detroit Lions Jersey , the NFL's senior vice president of events. "There are lots of factors that come into it in determining where and when we go and what is the right sequence. So that's not necessarily a truism … though certainly there is a track record of a number of recent buildings that have been built that are incredible facilities."Atlanta last hosted a Super Bowl in 2000, when it was hit with severe weather, including ice storms that nearly shut down the city. The NFL didn't go back until this year, in part because the Georgia Dome no longer was a state-of-the-art venue, and in part because of memories of 2000.Since Mercedes-Benz Stadium opened in 2017, Atlanta has been the site of several major sporting events, including the college football playoff. Atlanta United of MLS has set all sorts of attendance records in the building.Those successes matter in the Super Bowl race."We do attend and we watch all those events that are coming into a venue," says O'Reilly, who also oversees the staging of the draft that has become a traveling show and heads to Nashville this April and Las Vegas next year."Part of the reason we have a policy in place that we don't play a Super Bowl in the first year after a building opens is you understand and learn from the events and the games in there. One of the positives is a number of the key vendors who work on the Super Bowl work on other major events. Clearly, in this community it's a really collaborative spirit."Of course, hosting a Super Bowl is about a lot more than spirit. It's about dollars, millions of dollars.Economic impact studies tend to show the value of the NFL's big show ranges from $200 million to $500 million for a city. Plus, more than 100 million viewers across the country are seeing that city being showcased. Minnesota might not have been a winter vacation destination to many people before it was spotlighted for last year's game.Naturally, Minneapolis wouldn't have gotten the Super Bowl without having built an ultramodern indoor stadium. The only outdoor game in a cold weather city was in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, and that was a given once the Giants and Jets agreed to foot most of the bill for the facility.With a wink and a nod, Detroit was destined for a Super Bowl once Ford Field was ready and the Lions moved back downtown from the suburbs. Indianapolis, which put on a sensational Super Bowl week Travis Fulgham Jersey 2019 , never would have been considered without Lucas Oil Stadium being constructed."There's nothing formal," explains Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp, a Chicago-based consulting firm, and an adviser to several team owners. "It is an understanding that if you build a new stadium and have the facilities for a Super Bowl and the community gets behind it, you will get a Super Bowl. Maybe you will only get one, like Indianapolis 鈥?as great a job as Indianapolis did, it's really on the edge of a community that can support a Super Bowl. They made up for it with the great community support."It is not an issue of how well a franchise is run, either. It's an issue of the market, the hotel rooms and the stadium. So we know that Miami (2020), Tampa (2021), New Orleans (2024), Texas, Arizona (2023), LA and Las Vegas will get them."The process for securing a Super Bowl has changed. No longer do cities bid against each other 鈥?Ganis notes that a so-called loser in the bidding could be embarrassed despite putting up a very strong presentation, and that a lengthy series of ballots doesn't look good for anyone.Now, O'Reilly and the owners' Super Bowl committee go to each club seeking an expression of interest in hosting the game. Many cities know they have no chance Travis Fulgham Jersey Mens , perhaps because of weather concerns at an outdoor stadium 鈥?it's unlikely any such venue in the Northeast except MetLife would be considered 鈥?or lack of stadium size or insufficient infrastructure or hotel space.The committee identifies a city that fits best for a particular year and asks it for specifics for hosting."We end up with optimizing the sequences, avoid a scenario where multiple cities are spending significant time and resources on a bid and ultimately they're not rewarded," O'Reilly says.Suggestions that the game could wind up in London seem farfetched, and the NFL certainly would need a franchise there before it could happen. Besides, Ganis says there will never be a shortage of U.S. locales interested in hosting."I focus on the tremendous amount of new money coming into the community, and not just the week of the Super Bowl, but all the planning and the attention that takes place, and the money spent from outside (the venue) on that. Those things are almost impossible to put a price tag on, as is the visibility over a number of years focused on those two weeks in your city. It is almost always very positive." The Lions safety looked good in the preseaon opener." Detroit Lions AnalysisDetroit Lions Film ReviewDetroit Lions film breakdown: Taking a look at Tavon Wilson’s preseason openerNew,3commentsThe Lions safety looked good in the preseaon opener.EDTDetroit Lions safety Tavon Wilson has been an important part of the team’s defense since he joined from the New England Patriots in 2016. He has played in 40 games, racked up 178 combined tackles and intercepted three passes in his three seasons as a Lion.The veteran finds himself on the roster bubble entering the 2019 season, though. With Quandre Diggs’ recent career revival at safety and the potential of young safeties Tracy Walker and Will Harris, Wilson could become expendable. The Lions could also save just over a million dollars by cutting him, eating only $875,000 in dead cap. Wilson had his first opportunity to prove his worth during Detroit’s preseason opener last Thursday against his former team. He played through the entire first half and had three tackles. He also managed to stand out as the rest of the team failed.The safety works best out of the box, and is great against the run. He showed off his run defending prowess in the preseason opener. On this play in the first quarter, he shot into the backfield for a tackle for loss.He also made a play that did not show up in the box score in the second quarter. Wilson shot into the backfield on this play Youth Travis Fulgham Jersey , and forced a run to bounce outside. The Patriots running back ran right into the hands of a Lions edge defender on a play that should have been a tackle for loss. The edge defender missed the tackle, but had the likes of Trey Flowers or Devon Kennard been out there, it likely would have been a play for a loss. Wilson also has always been a smart play diagnoser when playing in the box, and he showed off a bit of it when he got across the box to stuff a run late in the first quarter. His day was not perfect, though. Wilson shot into the backfield for another potential tackle for loss on this second-quarter play. He missed, though, but did manage to slow down the runner in the backfield.This play is still great. Wilson again showed his ability to quickly knife into the backfield and cause problems for the opposing offense. He missed the tackle, though, and a player on the roster bubble cannot afford to make small execution errors like this. We already knew that Wilson was a great run defender coming into the game, though. Diggs is a better run defender and is just as good dropping back into coverage. Wilson did not make any plays in coverage Thursday,.It is not his fault—the Patriots are not a team that stretches defenses downfield much, their back up quarterbacks are not particularly great downfield passers, and the Lions corners were absolutely awful in coverage —but he did not prove much Thursday.Wilson looked great Thursday and clearly showed that he can play a role on this defense. On a day where everyone looked terrible, he made a case for himself on the roster, but he still has more to do in the coming weeks if he is going to be a Lion this year.