<Li> There must be practice space of equal and comparable quality for both teams within a 20 - minute drive of the team hotels, and rehearsal space for all events within a reasonable distance to the stadium . The practice facilities must have one grass field and at least one field of the same surface as the host stadium . </Li> <Li> The stadium must have a minimum of 70,000 fixed seats, including club and fixed suite seating, during regular season operations . </Li> <P> The NFL owners meet to make a selection on the site, usually three to five years prior to the event . In 2007, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suggested that a Super Bowl might be played in London, perhaps at Wembley Stadium . The game has never been played in a region that lacks an NFL franchise; seven Super Bowls have been played in Los Angeles, but none were held there in the 21 - year period when the league had no team in the area . New Orleans, the site of the 2013 Super Bowl, invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure improvements in the years leading up to the game . </P> <P> The designated "home team" alternates between the NFC team in odd - numbered games and the AFC team in even - numbered games . This alternation was initiated with the first Super Bowl, when the Green Bay Packers were the designated home team . Regardless of being the home or away team of record, each team has their team logo and wordmark painted in one of the end zones . Designated away teams have won 30 of 51 Super Bowls to date (approximately 59 percent). </P>

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