The NFL is awarding three future Super Bowl sites for the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons — and it will be Atlanta landing the first of the three.
The brand-new, two-million-square-foot Atlanta Falcons facility, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which is set to open before the 2017 season, likely was the tipping point to land the big game for February 3, 2019. Atlanta beat out New Orleans for the final vote, which came down to a fourth tiebreaker and a simple majority among voting NFL owners.
Atlanta and New Orleans made it through the first two cuts of votes for Super Bowl LIII after Tampa and Miami dropped out.