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Superbowl venue

According to our article: The Superbowl venue is chosen years in advance. And no team has ever played in their home stadium.

What would happen if a team were to make it to the Superbowl and it was scheduled for their home stadium? Would an alternate stadium be chosen? If not, would they be given "home team" status even if it wasn't their year to be the home team due to the AFC/NFC swap every year? Dismas|^(talk) 01:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, they would not reschedule the game to a new venue, the game would just go ahead with the assigned conferences being home and away without regard for the team who is actually playing in their home stadium. The site of the Super Bowl isn't something that could be rescheduled in less than 2 weeks, which would be required to make it work as you suggested. Nope, if, say, the New Orleans Saints had happened to make it to a game played at the Super Dome, well, so be it. --Jayron32 02:22, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So, I guess it's just dumb luck that the stadium chosen has never been that of one of the competitors. Thanks! Dismas|^(talk) 19:43, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's what "no team has ever played in their home stadium" means. If it were the case that the rules prevent teams from playing in their home stadium, the article would have said that. And in that case, stating that no team has ever played in their home stadium would be as superfluous as stating that Barack Obama breathes air. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 20:45, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A number of the early Super Bowls were played in Miami's Orange Bowl Stadium, and I'm thinking that at least one year the Dolphins had a semi-realistic chance of getting there, but they failed. As it happens, often the host city's team does not even make the playoffs, but there's no way to predict that several years in advance. I note in List of Super Bowl champions that the game next year is scheduled for the New York Giants' stadium in New Jersey (outdoors, in February), and as the Giants have been pretty strong in recent years, there's a reasonable chance they could achieve that "first". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

However, there have been two occasions when a team played a Super Bowl in its own area. The Los Angeles Rams played SB XIV at the Rose Bowl in nearby Pasadena. And the San Francisco 49ers played SB XIX just down the road at Stanford Stadium. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 04:07, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A few factors have helped achieve that feat: many Super Bowls have been played in stadiums that are not home to an NFL team, such as Stanford Stadium mentioned above. Two of the more popular sites for the Super Bowl are New Orleans and San Diego, whose teams have rarely been threats to reach the big game (the Saints have been better in recent years, but were a model of futility in their first three decades in the NFL); same goes for Tampa. --Xuxl (talk) 08:45, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me find a science fiction film probably made at 1999-2005

it's a film about a bunch of astronauts, crashing into a planet of Dunes, with 5 Suns. the planet has no water but it once had water and life. they do their best to get out from there, and finally some of them do manage to get out. in the start of the film a female astronaut talkes with one of the guys about alcohol and says "it hydrates even more", and there is a scene in the film when the team locates a valley of skeletons that surly reminds the one of Mammoth's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.176.113.107 (talk) 16:25, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pitch Black (film) 91.125.167.107 (talk) 17:56, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your description fits Pitch Black in parts but not others. Without any more information, that's what I would guess the OP is thinking of as well. Dismas|^(talk) 19:40, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]