Super Bowl XLII

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Super Bowl XLII
Visiting Team NFC Champion
Home Team AFC Champion
Date February 3, 2008
Stadium Cardinals Stadium
City Glendale, Arizona
TV in the United States
Network FOX
Announcers Joe Buck * and Troy Aikman *
Expected announcer, subject to change.*
Super Bowl XLII will be the 42nd Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. The game is scheduled to be played on February 3, 2008 at the Cardinals Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, which will open in 2006. The game will be televised on FOX, and will most likely be called by Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.

**Super Bowl XLII**
Visiting Team	NFC Champion
Home Team	AFC Champion
Date	February 3, 2008
Stadium	Cardinals Stadium
City	Glendale, Arizona
TV in the United States
Network	FOX
Announcers	Joe Buck * and Troy Aikman * Expected announcer, subject to change.*

In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue announced the idea of holding Super Bowl XLII in either New York City or Washington, D.C. as a way of helping both areas rebuild economically. However, New York City was not even considered as a finalist because:

The proposed renovations to Giants Stadium were still being disputed among its stadium representatives.
At the time, New York City and the New York Jets still had not finalized a plan to build the new West Side Stadium (Ultimately, the deal fell through).

When NFL owners awarded Super Bowl XLII to Glendale during their October 30, 2003 meeting in Chicago, Illinois, they rejected Washington because they preferred a warmer climate.

Trivia

This will be the second time that the Phoenix, Arizona area will host a Super Bowl game. Super Bowl XXX took place in nearby Tempe's Sun Devil Stadium.

References

[D.C.'s so unSuper in winter] by Thom Loverro, Washington Times (accessed September 10, 2005)
[N.Y./N.J. Super Bowl in 2008 may not come to pass] by Tom Pedulla, USA Today (accessed September 10, 2005)
[Arizona awarded 2008 Super Bowl]
[Future Super Bowl sites]
[NFL to remain on broadcast TV]
[NFL announces new prime-time TV packages]

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