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Originally Posted by Danguardace
The stadium tells you who hosts the game
Superbowl 54 Miami (AFC) Chiefs home
Superbowl 55 Tampa (NFC) Chiefs away Caveat Tampa wears white at home
Superbowl 57 Arizona (NFC) Chiefs Away
Superbowl 58 Vegas (AFC) Chiefs home
Superbowl 59 New Orleans (NFC) Chiefs away
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It's only worked out that way in the last several years. That's not how it's decided.
If you had gone back just a little farther, Super Bowls LII and LIII were held in Minneapolis and Atlanta. Both NFC stadia.
You also skipped LVI which was in SoFi. Did the Rams host or the Chargers? Also, I think the NFL considers the stadium and city that hosts, not necessarily the team. They call these neutral sites, even though we know they aren't really that.
Stadium selection has gone as follows:
NFL, AFL, AFL, NFL, AFC, NFC, NFC, AFC, NFC, AFC, Neutral, NFC, AFC, Neutral, NFC, NFC, Neutral, NFC, Neutral, NFC, Neutral, AFC, AFC, NFC, NFC, NFC, Neutral, NFC, AFC, NFC, NFC, AFC, AFC, NFC, NFC, NFC, AFC, AFC, AFC, NFC, AFC, NFC, NFC, AFC, NFC, AFC, NFC, NYC, NFC, NFC, AFC, NFC, NFC, AFC, NFC, LA, NFC, AFC, NFC
The stadium doesn't matter, they have alternated since Super Bowl I with Green Bay the "home team" and wearing their home unis.
There are a handful of exceptions of "home teams" not wearing their home uniforms:
Dallas in XIII
Washington in XVII
Dallas in XXVII
Pittsburgh in XL
Denver in 50
New England in LII
Tampa Bay in LV
Dallas and Washington were known for wearing their white jerseys at home (Dallas still is). Not sure the story with Pittsburgh and Denver, but the story goes that the Patriots (or maybe even just Tom Brady) had gotten superstitious about wearing their whites. They had lost XLII and XLVI in their homes. They were the "away team" in their whites in XLIX and LI (both wins) so chose in LII to wear white (which of course they lost). Brady also famously made Tampa Bay wear their whites in their home stadium in LV. Every other Super Bowl follows the NFC home in odd years, AFC home in even years home uniform pattern.