Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 awarded to Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is officially hosting Super Bowl LVIII successful 2024 pursuing a ballot from NFL owners connected Wednesday morning.

“No metropolis is arsenic prepared arsenic Las Vegas to invited the biggest sporting lawsuit of all,” said Gov. Steve Sisolak astatine a property league wrong Allegiant Stadium pursuing the vote.

The Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority estimation the Super Bowl volition person a much than $500 cardinal interaction connected the section economy, including the Las Vegas country and the State of Nevada.

Re-watch the announcement from officials astatine Allegiant Stadium below. Follow Reporter Alyssa Bethencourt connected Twitter astatine @a_bethencourttv.

In an emailed connection pursuing the vote, Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft said:

“I americium thrilled to assistance denote that Las Vegas volition beryllium the tract of the 2024 Super Bowl,” said Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, successful whose territory the crippled volition beryllium played. “This is the nonstop benignant of lawsuit and economical enactment that was envisioned successful the aboriginal days of Allegiant Stadium. I americium peculiarly excited for what this means for our section community: $500 cardinal successful full economical impact, thousands of jobs, opportunities for tiny and minority-owned businesses, and the accidental to showcase what we each cognize is the ‘Greatest Arena On Earth.’”

Las Vegas was erstwhile thought of arsenic a municipality that could ne'er person nonrecreational sports.

Over the years, we've seen that change, but bringing a Super Bowl to Vegas — 1 of the astir important sporting events successful the satellite — goes to amusement conscionable however acold the metropolis has come.

New Orleans, Louisiana, was selected initially for hosting duties successful 2024, but erstwhile the NFL added a 17th crippled to its schedule, the league pushed the extremity of the regular play up by a week.

As a result, the 2024 crippled was moved from Feb. 4 to Feb. 11, creating a struggle with the yearly Mardi Gras solemnisation successful New Orleans.

That's erstwhile Las Vegas swooped successful and enactment unneurotic an ambitious program to person NFL owners of its quality to accommodate the astir important yearly sporting lawsuit successful the U.S.

"It looks similar it's locked up. It looks similar it's successful the bag," said Anthony Curtis with LasVegasAdvisor.com.

"It's going to beryllium 1 of the biggest nights, and 1 of the biggest weekends really, successful the past of the city."

In summation to hosting Super Bowl LVIII, Las Vegas is location to Verizon's upcoming 2022 NFL Pro Bowl and the 2022 NFL Draft.

Alyssa Bethencourt astatine KTNV archetypal reported this story.