By Adam Schefter, ESPN Senior Writer
NFL owners will vote Wednesday to award Super Bowl LXI in 2027 to Los Angeles, per league sources. The vote will be taken at the league meetings in Dallas.
The game will be televised by ESPN and ABC. It will be ESPN’s first Super Bowl telecast and ABC’s first telecast of the game since Super Bowl XL in February 2006.
The league will sandwich the Super Bowl between the World Cup in 2026, when Los Angeles will be one of 16 North American host cities, and the Summer Olympic Games in 2028, giving Los Angeles a tripleheader of mega sporting events that will make it one of the sports capitals of the world.
In February 2022, before Los Angeles hosted its last Super Bowl, when Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts discussed the game, he predicted that there will be “many coming,” adding “SoFi Stadium is now the site of the world’s most hyped sports championships, concerts and other performances, setting the standard for what a top-tier venue should be.”
Inglewood is facing a shortage of police officers, within their own department, with possibly losing a good amount of current officers to retirement in the next two years.
Inglewood taxpayers are currently spending over $101 million on its police department in addition to $15 million on outside law enforcement contracts for special events.
Will Inglewood be financially prepared to host the game in 2027?
2UrbanGirls contributed to this report.