san francisco 49ers from nfc played in the super bowl in 2013.
san francisco 49ers from nfc played in the super bowl in 2013.
who from nfc played in the super bowl in 2013?
san francisco 49ers
no team has ever played the super bowl in its home stadium. the closest any team has come was the 2017 minnesota vikings, who were within one win of playing super bowl lii in u.s. bank stadium, but lost the nfc championship game to the philadelphia eagles. in that instance, u.s. bank stadium became the first super bowl host stadium (selected on may 20, 2014) to also host a divisional playoff game in the same season (which the vikings won; all previous times that the super bowl host stadium hosted another playoff game in the same postseason were all wild card games. two teams have played the super bowl in their home market: the san francisco 49ers, who played super bowl xix in stanford stadium instead of candlestick park; and the los angeles rams, who played super bowl xiv in the rose bowl instead of the los angeles memorial coliseum. in both cases, the stadium in which the super bowl was held was perceived to be a better stadium for a large, high-profile event than the stadiums the rams and 49ers were playing in at the time. this situation has not arisen since 1993, in part because the league has given preference in awarding the super bowl to brand-new or recently renovated stadiums, alongside a trend of teams demanding public money or relocating to play in new stadiums. besides those two, the only other super bowl venue that was not the home stadium to an nfl team at the time was rice stadium in houston: the houston oilers had played there previously, but moved to the astrodome several years prior to super bowl viii. the orange bowl was the only afl stadium to host a super bowl and the only stadium to host consecutive super bowls, hosting super bowls ii and iii.
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this was the first super bowl since super bowl xxxvii ten years ago that did not feature the new england patriots, indianapolis colts, or the pittsburgh steelers as the afc representatives, and the only one as of the 2018 season, including the denver broncos, the team that peyton manning was brought to in the 2012 season. baltimore defeated the colts and patriots during the playoffs while the steelers failed to make the playoffs. by contrast, the nfc had a different member go to the super bowl almost every year during that same span, with the new york giants (who won super bowls xlii and xlvi) being the only nfc team to make two appearances during that span. with the 49ers making their first super bowl appearance since super bowl xxix, this left the dallas cowboys (last appeared in super bowl xxx), detroit lions (never appeared in a super bowl), minnesota vikings (last appeared in super bowl xi) and washington redskins (last appeared in super bowl xxvi) as the only nfc teams not to play in a super bowl since 1998, with only the vikings (on three occasions) even advancing to the nfc championship game.
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