Owners vote Arizona as Super Bowl host for third time

The Super Bowl is heading back to Arizona.


The owners voted to award Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 to Glendale, Ariz., during Tuesday's Owners Meetings in Houston. Glendale beat out Tampa Bay for the right to host the Super Bowl on the second ballot after neither city could win a 75 percent majority on the first vote.


The game will mark the second time the league's marquee event has been in Glendale, and the third time it's been held in the greater-Phoenix area. University of Phoenix Stadium hosted Super Bowl XLII in 2008 when the New York Giants famously upset the then-undefeated New England Patriots, while Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., hosted Super Bowl XXX in 1996 between the Dallas Cowboys andPittsburgh Steelers