In forty-three years of the Super Bowl era, no NFL team has ever “hosted” the championship game in its home stadium.
The 49ers came the closest in Super Bowl XIX, playing the Dolphins at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California.
In the first season of the UFL, the title game will have a home team; the Las Vegas Locomotives has qualified for the game to be played on November 27 at Sam Boyd Stadium.
The Locos clinched the berth with a 16-10 win over the California Redwoods before an announced crowd of 4,312 at Spartan Stadium in San Jose.
Las Vegas came from behind, scoring 10 points in the fourth quarter of a game in which they had been outplayed by the Redwoods. And given that the Redwoods are coached by Denny Green, we figured that the reporters assembled in the press room were waiting for Green to talk about how the Locos are who they thought they were and that if you wanna crown them then crown their ass and something about “bullsh-t bullsh-t” and then hitting the microphone and storming out.
But that it happened it was the equivalent of a Redwood falling in the forest, since the “reporters assembled in the press room” likely consisted of the janitor asking Green if the chairs can be put away yet.
The 3-2 Locos finish the season next weekend by hosting the 0-5 New York Sentinels. The 5-0 Tuskers, who clinched their own berth in the title game like in Week Two, will play the Redwoods at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
What the hell are you doing up at 4:30 am Florio?
Sorry, but does anybody really believe there is enough guys in California who want to see professional football?
4.000? Raiders can’t sell tickets, Chargers can’t sell tickets. I don’t believe the 49ers have been blacked out recently (small stadium), but c’mon …
I was going to say the same thing…why the hell are you up at 4:30 a.m. Florio? Haha.
Here come the Locomotives! Toot! Toot!
Florio… the hardest working guy in sports reporting.
James Brown is jealous
Live in Vegas and wouldn’t know about this if I didn’t read it here.
Great marketing. It is probably because they want to start out slowly and not try to over do everything the first season. Aside from a few radio ads and billboards there is not much talk about them.
Really should get the local media outlets more involved and try to get the word out.
florio up watching porn?
Wow guys, you really think he was up at 4:34am? You know these computer things have clock in them and you use them to schedule things like blog posts to go live whenever you want. I’d bet he set it at this time to show how significant this news was — yeah, no one cares.