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The Super Bowl is headed back to the Mill City for the first time since '92.
Keeping with the tradition of rewarding teams with new stadiums, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Tuesday that Minnesota was awarded the right to host Super Bowl LII.
According to nfl.com, According to NFL Network, NFL owners voted earlier this week at the NFL Spring Meeting to award Super Bowl LII (52) in 2018 to Minnesota. The game will be played in the Minnesota Vikings new Stadium. After four rounds of voting, the league's owners selected Minnesota by a simple majority over New Orleans, LA. Indianapolis, IN finished third in the selection process.
The Mill City hosted only one Super Bowl at the recently demolished Metrodome in 1992. The Washington Redskins won their 3rd Super Bowl by defeating the Buffalo Bills by a final score of 37-24 in Super Bowl XXVI.
The Vikings will play the next two seasons at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium (located in Minneapolis, MN) while their state-of-the-art stadium is built on the former site of the Metrodome. The new field is set to open in 2016, giving the city plenty of time to work out any kinks in advance of the 2018 Super Bowl.
