SUPER BOWL XLIV

'Super Bowl XLIV'

'Visiting Team'	NFC Champion
'Home Team'	AFC Champion
'Date'	February 7, 2010
'Stadium'	Dolphin Stadium
'City'	Miami Gardens, Florida
'TV in the United States'
'Network'	CBS
'Announcers'	Jim Nantz ★ and Phil Simms ★ ''Expected announcer, subject to change.'' ★

'Super Bowl XLIV' will be the 44th annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. The game is scheduled to be played on February 7 2010 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, the 10th time a Super Bowl will have played in the Miami metro area. The game will also become the latest date for a Super Bowl since Super Bowl XXXIX on February 6 2005. The game will be televised in the United States on CBS, who also broadcast the last Super Bowl held in Miami Gardens, Florida (XLI).
This will be the first Super Bowl telecast after the February 17,2009 deadline to end analog television broadcasts in the US.
On March 23, 2005, the league originally voted to have the City of New York host the game contingent on the completion of the proposed West Side Stadium, to be built for the New York Jets, by 2008.
After New York State government officials in June refused to approve $300 million for the stadium, the NFL in August decided to reopen the bidding for the game's site. The league then decided to consider the failed candidates for Super Bowl XLIII: Atlanta, Georgia, Houston, Texas, and Miami Gardens, Florida. The league eventually selected Miami Gardens on October 6.
With Tampa as the host of Super Bowl XLIII, Super Bowl XLIV will mark the third time that consecutive Super Bowls would be played in the same state. Super Bowls II and III were both played at the Miami Orange Bowl. Super Bowls XXI and XXII were both played in California: XXI at Pasadena's Rose Bowl Stadium and XXII at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium.
Miami will become the first city to host two Super Bowls designated as a National Security Special Event (NSSE). In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, every Super Bowl since Super Bowl XXXVI has been designated as a NSSE. Super Bowl XLI was Miami's first Super Bowl designated as a NSSE.

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Notes and references

# New York gets 2010 Super Bowl ... for now (accessed September 10, 2005)
# NFL Owners work on contract extension; reopen 2010 SB bids (accessed September 10, 2005)
# Atlanta, Houston, Miami to get shot at 2010 Super Bowl (accessed September 16, 2005)
# Miami awarded 2010 Super Bowl (Accessed October 6, 2005)

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★ Future Super Bowl sites

★ NFL to remain on broadcast TV

★ NFL announces new prime-time packages