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Tulane Stadium’s role in shaping New Orleans’ football legacy cannot be overstated. It was the birthplace of Saints football, a proving ground for Super Bowl history, and a cherished part of Before the Caesars Superdome was built, New Orleans hosted three Super Bowl games in the city at Tulane Stadium. The stadium hosted the Super Bowl games in 1970, 1972, and 1974, for Super Bowl IV Sugar Bowl – 1948. Tulane Stadium was an outdoor football stadium in the Southern United States on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.It stood from 1926 to 1980 and was officially the Third Tulane Stadium, following the "Second Tulane Stadium", which was located where the Telephone Exchange Building is now. The stadium reopened the following season for the New Orleans Saints' first home game, a 23-3 win over the Atlanta Falcons. The Superdome has hosted only one Super Bowl since Katrina: Super Bowl Big Game Memories: Tulane Stadium Super Bowls by: Raeven Poole, Curt Sprang. Posted: Making Memories: First Super Bowl played in New Orleans 10 hours ago. Feb. 4, 2025, Top Headlines for New Tulane Stadium’s path to hosting the Super Bowl began decades earlier when New Orleans officials, impressed by the goings-on in Pasadena with the Rose Bowl, proposed a college bowl of their own: The Sugar Bowl. Tulane Stadium could host it. Heck, New Orleans had been staging major sporting events since 1892, anyway, when “Gentleman Jim New Orleans hosted its first Super Bowl on January 11, 1970, at Tulane Stadium in front of a crowd of nearly 81,000. Led by Head Coach Hank Stram, the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in the last-ever championship between the NFL and AFL before the two leagues merged. This will be the 11th Super Bowl in the city of New Orleans, tied with Miami for the most of any city. The first three Super Bowls in New Orleans were held at Tulane Stadium. Stadiums That Have On October 24, 1926, in typically festive New Orleans fashion, Tulane Stadium was officially opened. Dedication speeches by Mayor Arthur J. O’Keefe and Governor O. H. Simpson followed a parade of students and supporters as 15,000 spectators filled the stands to watch the Tulane Green Wave battle the Auburn Tigers in the stadium’s inaugural game. NEW ORLEANS, LA: Tulane Stadium is remembered as being the home of the Sugar Bowl but it was also the home of three Super Bowls. > In the early 1920s in recognition of the Green Wave's achievements, 6,000 citizens donated $300,000 to construct a football stadium. Named Tulane Stadium, it opened on October 23, 1926 when Tulane played Auburn The building will look different than it did during its last Super Bowl in 2013, when half the stadium in 1967 in Tulane Stadium. New Orleans also hosted the first Super Bowl after the 10. Super Bowl VI (Jan. 16, 1972): Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3 Location: Tulane Stadium. This was the first of the Cowboys’ five Super Bowl championships. On Jan 16, 1972, Tulane Stadium hosted Super Bowl VI, in which the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24-3. A crowd of 81,023 packed the stadium, the second of three Super Bowls on the And, for the coin toss, the winning head coaches of the previous six New Orleans Super Bowls were featured. New Orleans had cemented itself as a staple of the Super Bowl. Super Bowl XXXVI: February 3, 2002. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the NFL postponed a week of regular season games. As a result, the rest of the season—Super Jan. 11, 1970, Tulane Stadium: Kansas City 23, Minnesota 7. 1. New Orleans was supposed to get Super Bowl III, in which the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts, in part as a thank you to two The first Super Bowl held in New Orleans was Super Bowl IV on January 11, 1970, in which the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 at Tulane Stadium, which held a crowd of 81,000 people. This was the last championship match between the NFL and AFL before the leagues completely merged. Super Bowl LIX events in New Orleans: Your Ultimate Guide; Kendrick Lamar vows to keep his passion for storytelling at the Super Bowl halftime show; Super Bowl weekend hits full stride Thursday as The first Sugar Bowl game was played in Tulane Stadium where the Tulane Green Wave took on the Temple Owls. 1947 Tulane Stadium was expanded to seat up to 81,000 fans. 1957 Lights were installed. 1967 Tulane Stadium became home to the NFL's New Orleans Saints from their first game on September 17, 1967 until December 8, 1974. 1973 Super Bowl LIX will take place next month in the Superdome. The venue has hosted many NFL championships, as New Orleans has been a great backdrop. Which games have taken place in New Orleans and what other venue hosted the Super Bowl? Let’s take a look The coldest Super Bowl in New Orleans happened to be the coldest Super Bowl ever played in an outdoor stadium. That was in 1972 when Dallas met Miami at Tulane Stadium. The high that day was only
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