Super Bowl LVII
Super Bowl LVII is the upcoming championship game of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2022 NFL season. The game is scheduled to be played on February 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It will be the fourth Super Bowl hosted by the Phoenix metropolitan area, with the most recent being Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, also held at State Farm Stadium (then called University of Phoenix Stadium). The game will be televised nationally by Fox. Host selection. A new process was introduced to select hosting sites for the Super Bowl, which began  with Super Bowl LVI. The previous process that allowed cities to submit bids for the hosting rights was discarded. Instead, the league unilaterally chooses a single hosting site for each game, not allowing other cities to bid; the chosen city then puts together a proposal that is voted upon at the league's owners' meetings. Arizona was the first location chosen under this process; its proposal was accepted unanimously on May 23, 2018. The official logo was unveiled on February 14, 2022; it follows the updated logo template introduced by Super Bowl LVI, with imagery of a desert canyon and  sky (the latter resembling Arizona's state flag) to reflect the landscapes of the host region. Background. Voting and trans rights restrictions controversy. In response to state legislation adding restrictions on voting, as well as restricting access to some medical procedures and school sports participation from transgender youth, a number of public figures requested that the Super Bowl be moved out of Arizona, citing Super Bowl XXVII's removal from Tempe after the state legislature failed to recognize Martin Luther King Day as precedent. In February 2022, over 200 faith leaders, including Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend William Barber petitioned  NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to move Super Bowl LVII out of Arizona in response to voting restrictions introduced in Arizona bills HB 1003, SB 1485, and SB 1819. Arizona Democratic Party vice chair Brianna Westbrook also voiced her support to move the Super Bowl after the Arizona legislature passed S.B. 1138 and S.B. 1165, which restrict access to gender reassignment procedures from minors, and place restrictions on transgender students participating in school sports. Broadcasting. Super Bowl LVII will be televised by Fox (per the three-year rotation between Fox, NBC, and CBS, the NFL's three network broadcast partners). Super  Bowl LVII marks the final game to be broadcast under the current NFL television contract, and the first Super Bowl to be broadcast by Sky Sports NFL as part of the 5 year partnership.