NFL owners unanimously approved that New Orleans would host Super Bowl LIX (59) on Feb. 9, 2025! pic.twitter.com/wchMpbgfJB
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) October 14, 2020
The NFL’s expansion of the regular season to 17 full weeks of football has already had a couple of ripple effects, even if teams won’t begin playing that longer schedule until 2021 at the soonest.
One of the new changes has already hit the New Orleans Saints, who were slated to help host Super Bowl LVIII in 2024. With another week of the regular season tacked onto the calendar, that would have put Super Bowl Sunday in the middle of Mardi Gras (conflicting with Bacchus Sunday’s festivities, to be precise).