NFL owners voted to award the 2029 Super Bowl to Las Vegas, which will be the second time in five years the city has hosted the game after being off the radar for decades before sports gambling was legalized. The NFL says there is no informal rotation, and each Super Bowl is awarded on the specific merits of a bid for a given year, but a league official Monday indicated Las Vegas has all the makings of a regular Super Bowl destination.
“Clearly, Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas [in 2024] was a tremendous success. Every element of that, everything that Las Vegas brought to bear -- the energy, the size, the scale, the hospitality,” said NFL EVP/Club Business, International & League Events Peter O’Reilly.
Conversations around a return to Las Vegas started immediately after the game in 2024. Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority President & CEO Steve Hill said he wants to “raise the bar,” giving two examples of challenges they want to fix this time.
“We had a couple events from a traffic standpoint conflicted earlier in the week, not the Super Bowl itself, but on a Thursday night and Friday night, where maybe we didn’t think through traffic flow in the city quite as well as we could, and that was one of our points of emphasis as we look at Super Bowl LXIII,” said Hill. “The demand for the fan fest was a little bit surprising -- 40,000, 50,000 people at the fan fest every day.”
