Super Bowl franchise outside of the Super Bowl. 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. 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
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions is an annual documentary series created by NFL Films (broadcast on NFL Network and CBS). Its 52 installments profile the first 52 winning teams of the National Football League's annual Super Bowl championship game; each episode chronicles an individual team. A spin-off debuted on September 18, 2008, titled "America's Game: The Missing Rings" which chronicled five of the best teams to never win the Super Bowl. "America's Game" weaves together archival NFL Films footage, videotape, audio clips, and interviews into a new program with new talking head style