The National Football League playoffs for the 2001 season began on January 12, 2002.
 The postseason tournament concluded with the New England Patriots defeating the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI, 20–17, on February 3, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The 2017 Sugar Bowl is a bowl game that was played on January 2, 2017 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 This 83rd Sugar Bowl was played between a team from the Big 12 Conference and the Southeastern Conference.
 It is one of the 2016–17 bowl games that concluded the 2016 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by the Allstate insurance company, the game is officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
The 1956 Sugar Bowl featured the 7th ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and the 11th ranked Pitt Panthers.
 The game was played on January 2, since New Year's Day was a Sunday.
 Much controversy preceded the 1956 Sugar Bowl.
 There was controversy over whether Bobby Grier from Pitt should be allowed to play because he was black, and whether Georgia Tech should even play at all due to Georgia governor Marvin Griffin's opposition to integration.
 This stood in stark contrast to the 1956 Rose Bowl, which featured two of the most racially integrated college football teams of the day with six African American players for the UCLA Bruins and seven for the Michigan State Spartans.
 Ultimately, Bobby Grier played making this the first integrated Sugar Bowl and is regarded as the first integrated bowl game in the Deep South.
The 1997 Sugar Bowl was the 63rd edition to the annual Sugar Bowl game and served as the Bowl Alliance's designated national championship game for the 1996 season.
 It featured a bowl rematch of the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles and their heated rivals, the third ranked Florida Gators, whom the Seminoles had previously defeated 24–21 in the final game of the regular season.
 Florida defeated Florida State in their Sugar Bowl rematch in convincing fashion, with a final score of 52–20, and with the victory, earned its first-ever consensus national championship.
The Mercedes-Benz Superdome, often referred to simply as the Superdome, is a domed sports and exhibition venue located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
 It primarily serves as the home venue for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL), and is also the home stadium for the Sugar Bowl and New Orleans Bowl in college football.
 Plans were drawn up in 1967 by the New Orleans modernist architectural firm of Curtis and Davis and the building opened as the Louisiana Superdome in 1975.
 Its steel frame covers a 13 acre expanse and the 273 ft dome is made of a lamellar multi-ringed frame and has a diameter of 680 ft , making it the largest fixed domed structure in the world.
 It is adjacent to the Smoothie King Center.
The 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl was the 78th edition of the annual postseason college football bowl game known as the Sugar Bowl.
 It featured the Michigan Wolverines and the Virginia Tech Hokies on Tuesday, January 3, 2012, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The game was the final contest of the 2011 football season for both teams and was the third game of the 2011–2012 Bowl Championship Series (BCS).
 The game ended with 23–20 Michigan victory in overtime.
 Michigan represented the Big Ten Conference (Big Ten) as the at-large team from the conference, while Virginia Tech represented the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as its at-large team.
 The game was televised in the United States on ESPN and an estimated 9.6 million viewers watched the broadcast live.
 This was the first Sugar Bowl since 2000, as well as only the sixth since World War II and the tenth overall, not to feature a Southeastern Conference (SEC) team.
The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 The Sugar Bowl has been played annually since January 1, 1935, and celebrated its 75th anniversary on January 2, 2009.
 The Sugar Bowl, along with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl, are the second-oldest bowl games in the country, behind the Rose Bowl Game.
 The Sugar Bowl is also a member of the College Football Playoff.
 Presently, its official title is the Allstate Sugar Bowl after its current sponsor, the Allstate insurance company.
The 1995 Sugar Bowl (January) was the 9th Sugar Bowl played on January 2 and only the 13th to not be played on January 1st.
 This was the 61st held Sugar Bowl, and it was the postseason game for the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 The game was a bowl rematch between the Florida Gators and the Florida State Seminoles who had played each other in the regular season on Nov. 26th.
The Pride of the South is the name of the marching band at The University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.
 The full band plays at all Ole Miss home football games, and a smaller pep band is sent to most away games.
 The full band also travels to Ole Miss bowl games and Starkville, Mississippi when Mississippi State University hosts the Egg Bowl.
The University of Mississippi Band has been giving outstanding performances in concert and in support of Ole Miss athletic events since it was organized in 1928.
 In addition to performing at all home football games and many away games, the marching band has attended numerous bowl games including the Sugar Bowl, the Gator Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, the Independence Bowl, the Peach Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, and more recently the Motor City Bowl in 1997, the Music City Bowl in 2000, the Independence Bowl in 1998, 1999 and 2002, the Cotton Bowl in 2004, 2009 and 2010, the Chick-fil-a Classic in 2014, the Peach Bowl in 2014, and the Sugar Bowl in 2016.
The 2016 Sugar Bowl is a bowl game that was played on January 1, 2016 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 This 81st Sugar Bowl was played between the University of Mississippi and Oklahoma State University.
 It is one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
 Sponsored by the Allstate insurance company, the game is officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

Question: What city and state did Superbowl XXXVI occur as well as the home of the Sugar Bowl?
Answer: New Orleans, Louisiana