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NFL May Not Hold Superbowl 51 In Atlanta Due To Georgia’s Anti-Gay ‘Religious

Apr 8, 2016 · Super Bowl LI

Atlanta could host Super Bowl 51, but Falcons owner Arthur Blank said on Friday that he opposes Georgia’s “religious freedom” bill that was approved by the Georgia Legislature.

The folding roof and glass facade of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, people crossing the plaza in front of it — Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, from the plaza.
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What follows is a dispatch that reached the Host Cities desk and stayed on the shelf; the text below is the filing itself, not a summary of it.

By date it belongs to 2016, one of 80 entries this archive keeps from that twelve-month stretch.

Host Cities holds 26 entries in all, and this is one of them.

This belongs to the Super Bowl LI material, which runs to 31 pages on the shelf.

We leave old filings standing rather than quietly correcting them, so this is a snapshot and should be read as one.

This address is the one the entry was published under. Rebuilding the site around the old addresses was the point, not an afterthought.

Below the text you will find the records nearest this one by date; reading them together gives the week rather than the moment.

The host-city file is about the town that drew the game — the preparation, the week itself, and the bill that arrived once everyone had gone home.

Nothing in the body below has been edited for accuracy after the fact. Corrections, when we make them, are made in the open.

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Edition	Years	Named most often	Stories
XLV	2016	Texas	5
XLVIII	2013–2016	New York	18
XLIX	2014	Arizona	6
50	2015–2016	San Francisco	22
LI	2016–2017	Texas	49
LII	2016–2017	Minnesota	15