2024 Super Bowl At Allegiant Stadium Is No Surprise After Big Game In New Orleans Was Moved To 2025

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 Alan Snel

Allegiant Stadium this year. Photo by Tom Donoghue for LVSportsBiz.com

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

More than a year ago, New Orleans needed to shift its Super Bowl hosting job because of a schedule conflict with Mardi Gras. So NFL owners gave the Super Bowl to New Orleans in 2025, moving it from 2024.

So with the 2024 Super Bowl slot open, the Las Vegas Raiders last year pitched the NFL on holding the Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in February 2024.

Word is that the NFL will announce the Super Bowl coming to Las Vegas this week — which comes as no surprise after New Orleans decided to host the Super Bowl in 2025.

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While many in Las Vegas are heralding the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, it’s important to take a close look at potential economic benefits of hosting a Super Bowl because the market and the hotels here are already filled with tens of thousands of visitors during Super Bowl weekend.

Las Vegas is already hosting the 2022 NFL Pro Bowl in February and the NFL Draft on the Strip in April.

Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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LVSportsBiz number for 2024: $1,178,161,041. That’s the amount of debt Las Vegas (actually, Clark County) owes for its public share of building the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium.