Atlanta is host to this year’s Super Bowl ... and the world’s busiest airport. Will the shutdown turn the whole affair upside down?
Three and a half years ago, as Americans were still figuring out which presidential candidate to vote for in the 2016 election, the NFL’s 32 team owners voted from four finalist cities to host Super Bowl LIII. They picked Atlanta, a city that can typically handle lots of people coming and going. But the government shutdown has ruffled the town’s Super Bowl game plan.
The up-to-75,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which would open in 2017, was an obvious place to play host to its first Super Bowl, but the choice of Atlanta over Miami, New Orleans and Tampa (which were awarded the following Super Bowls) would looked smarter five weeks ago for a reason that had nothing to do with football.
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