Minneapolis Awarded ’92 Super Bowl
On the sixth ballot Wednesday, the National Football League awarded Super Bowl XXVI to Minneapolis, where it will be played in the Metrodome in January of 1992.
When in the early balloting no applicant could get the 21 votes required by the NFL constitution, the club owners suspended their rules and voted by a simple majority for the coldest city in the league.
They committed the ’92 game to a northern dome several years ago. Detroit finished second, followed by Seattle and Indianapolis.
Dismissing the winter travel threat in Minnesota, Norman Braman, president of the Eagles, said: “There’s a potential for bad weather everywhere.”
Braman, chairman of the site committee, said the 1993 Super Bowl will be played in either in California or Phoenix.
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