Editing Super Bowl XXIII (section)

===Host selection process===
NFL owners voted to award Super Bowl XXIII to Miami, Florida on March 14, 1985, during their March 10–15, 1985 meetings held in Phoenix. This was the sixth time that Miami hosted the game, and the first at [[Hard Rock Stadium|Joe Robbie Stadium]]; the 5 previous Super Bowls in the area were played at the [[Miami Orange Bowl]].

Originally, the selection was to be voted on during the May 23–25, 1984 meetings.<ref name="NYT 5-24-84">{{cite news|title=N.F.L. Approves Sale of Broncos|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/24/sports/nfl-approves-sale-of-broncos.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 24, 1984|access-date=January 11, 2010}}</ref> However, after balloting for XXI took more than two hours, voting for XXIII was rescheduled. Twelve cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award two Super Bowls (XXIII and [[Super Bowl XXIV|XXIV]]). The bidding cities included: [[Angel Stadium of Anaheim|Anaheim]], [[Pontiac Silverdome|Detroit]], [[Reliant Astrodome|Houston]], [[Gator Bowl Stadium|Jacksonville]], [[Dolphin Stadium|Miami]], [[Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome|Minneapolis]], [[Louisiana Superdome|New Orleans]], [[Veterans Stadium|Philadelphia]], [[Candlestick Park|San Francisco]], [[Kingdome|Seattle]], [[Tampa Stadium|Tampa]], and [[Sun Devil Stadium|Tempe]].<ref name="TMN">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0Z8mAAAAIBAJ&pg=1682,3170331&dq=super+bowl+xxiii&hl=en|title=The Miami News – Archive – 3/12/1985}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Miami entered as the favorite.<ref name="TMN"/>

This was the last Super Bowl played on the second to last Sunday in January. From 1990 to 2001, the game was played on the last Sunday of January, and from 2002 to 2021, on the first Sunday in February (with the exception of [[Super Bowl XXXVII]], which was played on January 26, 2003). This was also the last east coast Super Bowl that began under daylight.