Image: ST-15002128-0031, Chicago Sun-Times collection, Chicago History Museum
The Kansas Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are set to kick off Super Bowl LVII on Sunday at the State Farm Stadium in Arizona, but none of those 57 Super Bowls has ever taken place in Chicago. That’s in part due to Chicago’s lack of an indoor stadium. Thanks, Chicago winters. But Soldier Field did once play host to the “Super Bowl of Rock.” The photo from the Chicago History Museum above shows the “Super Bowl of Rock” on June 4, 1977. The concert featured British bands Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Foghat; and the Climax Blues Band. American rock group the J. Geils Band also performed. But that was just the first “game” in the rock concert series. Other “games” performed later that summer included Pink Floyd, Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, .38 Special, REO Speedwagon, UFO, Rick Derringer, Bob Seger, and Peter Frampton. Soldier Field looked a little different back then, huh?
Chicago, as everyone knows, has never hosted a Super Bowl, unless you count the “Super Bowl of Rock” in 1977 with Foghat and Emerson, Lake & Palmer as headliners at Soldier Field. (Some of us still haven't recovered from ELP's extended version of “Karn Evil 9.”)
Hinz said if the team gets its way, the Bears could go public with an expansion project into the south lot of Soldier Field, featuring a brand-new, state-of-the-art domed stadium that could play host to the NCAA Final Four, Super Bowls, and other big name events that have eluded Chicago, in addition to the usual Bears ...
Which brings us to the final and maybe the most important reason why the city of Denver has not hosted the Super Bowl, the weather. The NFL required temperature in the month leading up to the Super Bowl is an average temperature of 50 degrees. Denver's average is 30.7 degrees.
The Caesars Superdome has hosted seven Super Bowls, more than any other stadium. Hard Rock Stadium has hosted six out of the record eleven Super Bowls played in the Miami metropolitan area.
The problem is Soldier Field holds 61,500 fans. The NFL wants 70,000 permanent seats in their Super Bowl stadiums. Unless they add about 10,000 seats to the ... Brent, Chicago could host a Super Bowl (SB) if they build an indoor stadium similar to the Minnesota Vikings ( they hosted one).
During a public presentation Wednesday at Soldier Field, the Bears unveiled their plans to build a state-of-the-art fixed-roof stadium along Chicago's lakefront.
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