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.