ATLANTA -- The NFL wants the retractable roof at Atlanta's $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium open for the next Super Bowl, weather permitting.
Super Bowl LIII is scheduled for Feb. 3, 2019.
``Certainly where we've been in stadia with retractable roofs, our preference is always to open the roof,'' said Peter O'Reilly, the NFL's senior vice president of events. ``We did that in Arizona for Super Bowl XLIX in a model there where they typically don't open the roof for a stadium, but we opened it for the Super Bowl.
``It our mind, [an open roof] creates some great energy in that building.