On Sunday, the 46th edition of the Super Bowl will be played in Indianapolis. One year ago, the game was held in Dallas. A few years earlier, Detroit got to host the NFL's championship game.

Those three cities are not the traditional Super Bowl host cities such as Miami or New Orleans, but they each have dome stadiums.

In two years, the Super Bowl will be played in North Jersey and it will be the first open-air stadium in a traditionally cold region of the country to host the title game. Once New York was selected to have the game, Eagles fans can only wonder if the game will one day come to Philadelphia. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked that very question at his annual Super Bowl press conference on Friday.

"I'm a big believer that the game of football is played in all elements. Some of our classic games were played in snow or ice or cold," Goodell said. "We're willing to play an outdoor game in New York, as you know, in 2014. Let's see how that event comes off. We think it's going to be very positive and we'll go from there."

Philadelphia has a state-of-the-art stadium in Lincoln Financial Field, but Goodell said that the playing facility is just one of the factors that goes into which city will host the Super Bowl.

"It's not just the size of the stadium," he said. "It's clearly about the number of hotel rooms and the other infrastructure."

Philadelphia is the nation's fifth-largest city in terms of population, according to the U.S. Census in 2010. Since 2001, Philadelphia has played host to the championships in each of the other three major professional sports as well as a number of NCAA championship events.

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