Background
NFL owners voted to award Super Bowl XIX to Stanford University Stadium in Palo Alto, California on December 14, 1982. It became the fourth primarily college stadium to host a Super Bowl, following Tulane Stadium, then the home of the New Orleans Saints (1970, 1972, and 1975), Rice Stadium (1974) and the Rose Bowl.
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