Super Bowl XLVII, the 47th edition of the Super Bowl

Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...

 and the 43rd modern era National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 championship game, is scheduled to be played in 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana

Louisiana

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. The exact date has not been set, mostly due to the ongoing question of expanding the current sixteen game schedule as of 2010 to a proposed eighteen-game slate, but the game has typically been held on the first Sunday in February since 2004, which in 2013 will be February 3, 2013. If this remains the Super Bowl date, the 2013 Mardi Gras calendar in Orleans Parish will be changed. Parades scheduled for February 3 and before will likely move ahead one week. The same occurred in 2002 when the 9/11 attacks caused a one week delay in the NFL season, resulting in a New Orleans Super Bowl falling within the Mardi Gras parade calendar.

This will be the tenth time that the city has hosted the ultimate football game, by far the most by an individual city and once again tying with the Miami area

South Florida metropolitan area

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 for the most Super Bowls hosted by a metropolitan area (they have been tied in the past). New Orleans beat out Glendale, Arizona

Glendale, Arizona

Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, located about nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix. According to 2010 Census Bureau, the population of the city is 226,721....

 and Miami (South Florida) for the right to host the game at the NFL's Spring Ownership Meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...

 on May 19, 2009, and will mark the first Super Bowl game played in New Orleans since Super Bowl XXXVI

Super Bowl XXXVI

Super Bowl XXXVI was an American football game played on February 3, 2002 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to decide the National Football League champion following the 2001 regular season. The American Football Conference champion New England Patriots won their first Super...

 in 2002

2001 NFL season

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, which saw the New England Patriots

New England Patriots

The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...

 win on a game-ending field goal over the St. Louis Rams

St. Louis Rams

The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

. CBS

NFL on CBS

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 will broadcast the game. It will be simulcast in Canada by CTV

CTV television network

CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...

.

By being played indoors at the Superdome, it will be the first time three straight Super Bowls are played in indoor stadiums, following Super Bowl XLV

Super Bowl XLV

Super Bowl XLV was an American football game between the American Football Conference champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League champion for the 2010 season. The game was held at Cowboys Stadium in...

 at Cowboys Stadium and Super Bowl XLVI

Super Bowl XLVI

Super Bowl XLVI will be the 46th annual edition of the Super Bowl in American football, and the 42nd annual championship game of the modern-era National Football League . It will be held on February 5, 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be the first Super Bowl to be...

 at Lucas Oil Stadium

Lucas Oil Stadium

Lucas Oil Stadium is a multi-purpose sports stadium in Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The stadium celebrated its grand opening on August 24, 2008, and its ribbon-cutting ceremony August 16, 2008. It replaced the RCA Dome as the home field of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts. The stadium was built to...

. However, Cowboys Stadium and Lucas Oil Stadium each have a retractable roof, meaning the field can be exposed to the elements at those locations.