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This year's Super Bowl in Tampa will be nowhere near maximum capacity, but President Joe Biden expects to have the stadium full for next year's event in Los Angeles.
“It’s my hope and expectation, if we’re able to put together and make up for all the lost time fighting COVID that’s occurred, we’ll be able to watch the Super Bowl with a full stadium,” Biden said according to Pro Football Talk.
This year's event will hold 25,000 fans due to COVID restrictions, nowhere near as much as the 65,890 seats that are available in Raymond James Stadium. However, Biden hopes and expects that the game next February will be full in brand new SoFi Stadium in California.
While a lot of teams across the league had no fans in their stadiums for the entirety of the season, some opened it up for a select number of fans in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus.
With the vaccinations ramping up across the country, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announcing that all the NFL stadiums could be used for vaccination sites, Biden hopes that next year will be much different.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for nearly a year in the United States, and for sports fans everywhere, and people across the world, the hope is the same as Biden's.
As the Super Bowl is set to kickoff, this will hopefully be the only time the game is held without a full stadium, or at least a relatively large crowd.
Super Bowl I — known at the time as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game — did not have a capacity crowd in the Los Angeles Coliseum, due to the novelty of an event which hadn't yet become an American cultural staple. Yet, even then, nearly 62,000 fans attended the game between the Chiefs and Packers in a stadium which held over 90,000 people.
Nothing compares to this year's Super Bowl in terms of a small crowd size.
