Levi's Stadium to Host the Super Bowl in 2026

Finally, the Super Bowl will come back to San Francisco. I mean Santa Clara.

The NFL announced today that Levi's Stadium will host the Super Bowl in 2026. This will be the second time the Super Bowl is in Santa Clara. The first was in 2016 when the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers.

Let's break down the pros and cons of this news.

Pros

1. The game will be in Northern California.

2. The game will be played on grass.

It's nice that a Northern California venue has joined the NFL's Super Bowl rotation, and it's even nicer that the biggest football game of the year will be played on grass. I don't understand why billionaire owners keep building multi-billion-dollar stadiums and putting cheap turf fields inside them. The best players in the world should play on the best surface in the world, and that's grass. Kudos to the 49ers for having it, as opposed to the Rams, whose SoFi Stadium has a dome with turf on the westside of Los Angeles. Go figure.

Cons

1. The game will not be in San Francisco.

2. Levi's Stadium is kind of ugly.

Let's be honest -- the best Super Bowl cities have downtown stadiums. Think New Orleans and Las Vegas. Fans and tourists from all over the country can come to the Super Bowl city for a week, have fun downtown and stay in one location.

Not when the Super Bowl is at Levi's Stadium. Tourists will have to choose whether to stay in San Francisco, where the week-long festivities will be, or Santa Clara, where the game will be. Most people will have to shuttle back and forth, which takes more than an hour in traffic.

Also, the stadium still has no shade on the eastern side.

I'm thinking the NFL could have found a better venue for a Super Bowl.