Editing Super Bowl IV (section)

===Host selection process===
The NFL awarded Super Bowl IV to [[New Orleans]] on March 19, 1969, at the owners' meetings held in [[Palm Springs, California]]. It marked the first of eleven (as of [[2024 NFL season|2024]]) Super Bowls to be held in New Orleans. Two cites were in consideration for the game, [[Miami]] being the other. After two consecutive Super Bowls played at the [[Miami Orange Bowl]] ([[Super Bowl II|II]] and [[Super Bowl III|III]]), owners by a roughly three-quarters vote, opted out of giving Miami the game for a third straight year.<ref name="TMH03-20-1969pg91">{{cite news|title=Miami Loses Super Bowl To New Orleans in 1970|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117729006/|newspaper=The Miami Herald|first1=Bill|last1=Braucher|page=91|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=March 20, 1969|accessdate=February 1, 2023}}{{Open access}}</ref> Some owners felt that since an [[American Football League|AFL]] town had hosted the game two years in a row, that an [[National Football League|NFL]] town should get another turn to balance out the hosting duties. New Orleans [[List of mayors of New Orleans|mayor]] [[Victor H. Schiro]] was joined by George W. Healy Jr. (editor of the ''[[The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate|Times-Picayune]]'') and [[Al Hirt]]. They highlighted the superior seating capacity (80,982) of [[Tulane Stadium]], as well as the local accommodations. Healy and Miami [[List of mayors of Miami|mayor]] [[Stephen P. Clark]] became locked in a debate during a press conference while the deliberation and voting was going on behind closed doors.<ref name="TPBP03-20-1969pg23">{{cite news|title=New Orleans Wins Super Bowl|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117728747/|newspaper=The Palm Beach Post|page=23|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=March 20, 1969|accessdate=February 1, 2023}}{{Open access}}</ref>