no the super bowl must be an AFC team against an NFC team
For Super Bowl XLVIII the AFC is considered the home team. For the tv broadcasts, the away team plays Saturday and the home team plays Sunday.
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Baltimore Colts
pats I think
For the Super Bowl on February 3, 2008, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots is the AFC Championship Coach.
Pittsburgh steelers(AFC)
The role of home team alternates every season between the two conferences, AFC and NFC. In Super Bowl XLIV the AFC representative Indianapolis Colts were the home team. Super Bowl XLV is designated with the NFC as the home team, therefore making the Green Bay Packers the home team.
AFC NFC NFL Super Bowl and Pro Bowl- How it all works: The NFL is the National Football League.The NFL is broken down into two conferences (set of teams)The AFC -American Football Conferenceand the NFC -National Football ConferenceThe Super Bowl:The winning team of the AFC Championship plays the winning team of the NFC Championship at the Super Bowl.The Pro Bowl:The Best players from all the AFC teams play the Best players from all the NFC teams at the Pro Bowl ( excluding players on the two teams that go to the Superbowl) If you play in the Super Bowl-you don't play in the Pro Bowl.The pro Bowl takes place a week before the Super bowl (it used to occur after the Super Bowl, but this custom changed 2 years ago).For the 2011 YearAFC Championship- Jets Vs Steelers (Jan 23 2011)-The Steelers wonNFC Championship- Bears Vs Packers (January 23 2011)The Packers wonPro Bowl- (January 30th 2011)Super Bowl -(February 6th 2011)Steelers Vs Packers
NFC teams are the home team in odd numbered years. AFC teams are the home team in even numbered years. Since the upcoming Super Bowl will be played in 2008, the AFC team will be the home team.
No team has ever played in the Super Bowl as an AFC team and NFC team, however ... The AFL-NFL merger took place prior to the 1970 season. At the time, there were 10 teams in the AFL and 16 teams in the NFL. To make an even number of teams in each new conference (AFC and NFC) three teams that played in the NFL and would have become NFC teams became members of the AFC. These teams were the Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cleveland Browns. Four Super Bowls, then known as the AFL-NFL Championship Game, had been played prior to the merger. The Baltimore Colts represented the NFL in Super Bowl III and then in Super Bowl V, the first Super Bowl after the merger, they represented the AFC. So, the Baltimore Colts played in Super Bowls as an NFL team and an AFC team.
The designated "Home Team" alternates between the AFC team in even-numbered games and the NFC team in odd-numbered games. This year being Super Bowl 45 (Feb. 6, 2011 in Dallas, TX), the home team is the NFC representative.