L.A. SUPER BOWL IN 2016?

When we talk about the NFL in Los Angeles, we’re usually talking about the possibility that the nation’s second biggest city might finally get a professional football team. But whether or not L.A. ever gets a team, the city could be in line to host the Super Bowl. Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times reports that local businessmen Casey Wasserman and Tim Leiweke have been working behind the scenes with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the NFL to secure the 2016 Super Bowl for L.A., even if the city doesn’t have a team by then. The 2016 game, Super Bowl L, could be played at the Rose Bowl, the Coliseum or possibly the new stadium that real estate billionaire Ed Roski has proposed in City of Industry. Roski has made clear that he wants to bring an NFL team to Los Angeles soon. The NFL usually chooses Super Bowl hosts about four years in advance, so it will be a few years before the host of Super Bowl L is determined. The current schedule calls for the Super Bowl to be played in Tampa in 2009, in Miami in 2010, in Dallas in 2011 and in Indianapolis in 2012.