Now It’s Las Vegas’ Turn: Vegas Market Has 364 Days To Prepare For Super Bowl 58 At Allegiant Stadium In Feb. 2024
Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee in Phoenix for ceremony to accept the baton from Arizona for Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas in 2024. Photo: Host Committee Twitter
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher/Writer
PHOENIX, Arizona — OK, Las Vegas you’re on the clock.
The Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee accepted the Super Bowl baton from the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee Monday morning and has 364 days to help the National Football League stage Super Bowl 58 at the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 11, 2024.
The Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee, run by committee CEO Sam Joffray, will rely on a $55 million budget for Super Bowl 58.
At Monday’s ceremony at the Phoenix Convention Center, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, LVCVA CEO Steve Hill and Raiders team president Sandra Douglass Morgan joined Joffray at the event about 12 hours after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35, to win Super Bowl 57 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale outside Phoenix.
Las Vegas knows how to do big events. It was less than year that we were there for the draft last fall. We were had the Pro Bowl just a week ago. They really have done an extraordinary job understanding how we want to present the NFL in that community, but more importantly, how to do it Las Vegas style. — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
To offer a sense of what the host committee will work on, LVSportsBiz.com interviewed Joffray eight days ago at the start of Super Bowl week.
Joffray said Las Vegas is looking to recruit 9,000 volunteers starting in April; then manage and train them in September and the fall; and ultimately throw a thank you party in March 2024 after the Super Bowl in Feb. 2024.
Joffray pledged that the Las Vegas big game volunteers will be schooled on properly helping people, directing them to events and answering their questions. This is no inexpensive undertaking. Las Vegas’ tourism agency, the LVCVA, has approved $40 million in public dollars to help stage Super Bowl 58 in 2024 and the host committee is charged with raising another $20 million.
“In Las Vegas, you understand front of house hospitality,” Joffray explained to LVSportsBiz.com last week.
