Super Bowls, World Series, and Other Championship Events
- Tampa has hosted four Super Bowls. Super Bowl XVIII (1984) and Super Bowl XXV (1991) were held in Tampa Stadium; Super Bowl XXXV (2001) and Super Bowl XLIII (2009) were played in Raymond James Stadium.
- Two World Series games were played in St. Petersburg's Tropicana Field in the fall of 2008 when the Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Philadelphia Phillies.
- The NCAA has regularly chosen local venues to host contests for the men's and women's national championship basketball tournaments. Tropicana Field was the site of the 1999 Final Four and has hosted several regional finals. The Tampa Bay Times Forum has hosted early-round games in the men's tournament many times and was the site of the 2008 Women's Final Four.
- Tampa Stadium played host to the 1984 USFL Championship Game.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or events:
“Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
Did after him the World seduce:
And from the fields the Flow’rs and Plants allure,”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
““The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)