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Super Bowl XLIII

Visiting Team	AFC Champion
Home Team	NFC Champion
Date	February 1, 2009
Stadium	Raymond James Stadium
City	Tampa, Florida
TV in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	John Madden* and Al Michaels* Expected announcer, subject to change.*

Super Bowl XLIII will be the 43rd Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. The game is scheduled to be played on February 1, 2009. Tampa, Florida was selected for the game site on May 25, 2005, beating out three other finalists: Atlanta, Georgia, Houston, Texas and Miami, Florida. It will be the fourth Super Bowl played in Tampa, and the second in Raymond James Stadium. The game will be televised on NBC, which will be their first Super Bowl telecast since Super Bowl XXXII. Assuming that John Madden and Al Michaels are still under contract with NBC, they will call the game. It will be their first together since Super Bowl XL just three years earlier, but their first as employees of NBC.

[edit] Trivia

• This will be the third Super Bowl broadcast by the tandem of Al Michaels and John Madden. Michaels handled play-by-play duties for six Super Bowls while with ABC and Madden was the analyst for 10 Super Bowl broadcasts while with CBS, FOX and ABC.
• This will be the last Super Bowl to be carried on analog television in the U.S. Congress has set the end of U.S. analog television for February 17, 2009, so as to fall shortly after Super Bowl XLIII (and the busy TV-buying season that precedes it), but before the Academy Awards usually held in late February.

[edit] References

• Tampa awarded Super Bowl XLIII
• Future Super Bowl sites
• NFL to remain on broadcast TV
• NFL announces new prime-time TV packages

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