Wondering where is the Super Bowl this year? On February 11, 2024, Super Bowl LVIII will see the San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. It may be the 58th Super Bowl, but it’s a first in a lot of other ways. The first Super Bowl was a matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles Memorial Stadium in 1966. The Packers won 35 to 10 in front of a crowd of just under 62,000. It was originally a game that the National Football League and its rival, the American Football League, agreed upon to see who’d come out on top if the champions of their respective organizations faced off. Not long after the first Super Bowl, though, the AFL merged with the NFL, with the AFL teams forming the newly expanded NFL’s American Football Conference and the NFL teams becoming the organization’s National Football Conference.
In the beginning, the game was known—more prosaically—as the AFL-NFL Championship Game. The first time the Super Bowl moniker was used for the game was in 1969 for Super Bowl III. (The underdog New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16 to 7 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, in what’s still considered one of the greatest upsets in football history.)
Determined to come up with a snazzier title for the most important football game of the year, AFL founder and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt dreamed up the name after noticing a toy called a Super Ball. Since then, the term Super Bowl has been applied retroactively to the two first Super Bowl games.
The Super Bowl is now held on the second Sunday in February. It had previously been tradition to play the game on the first Sunday of February, but it to be moved back a week after the NFL added a regular-season game in 2021.
Who is playing in the Super Bowl?
It was a long road to get here, but the San Francisco 49ers will play against the Kansas City Chiefs.
In order to earn the right to play in the prestigious game, the San Francisco 49ers beat the Detroit Lions in the NFC championship match. On the other end of the bracket, the Kansas City Chiefs over came the Baltimore Ravens to win the AFC championship game.
Where can I watch Super Bowl LVIII, and when is kickoff time?
Game day for Super Bowl LVIII is February 11, 2024. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
In the US, Super Bowl LVIII will be broadcast on CBS, Nickelodeon, and Univision. It will also be streamed on Paramount+.
Why is this Super Bowl location special?
This is the first time Las Vegas (or Nevada) has ever hosted a Super Bowl. Sin City has poured tens of millions into hosting this Super Bowl alone, but it’s been part of an even larger strategy to turn Las Vegas into a sports paradise, including shutting down the Las Vegas Strip for days to host Formula 1 races and wooing Oakland’s remaining professional sports team, the Oakland Athletics, to make the same move the former Oakland Raiders made in 2020. (The A’s are slated to move into the new baseball stadium Las Vegas is building for them in 2028. Oakland must strongly dislike Las Vegas.)
