Chicago Has Never Hosted a Super Bowl. But Soldier Field Once Hosted the “Super Bowl of Rock.”

The Kansas Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are set to kick off Super Bowl LVII on Sunday at the State Farm Stadium in Arizona, but none of those 57 Super Bowls has ever taken place in Chicago. That’s in part due to Chicago’s lack of an indoor stadium. Thanks, Chicago winters. But Soldier Field did once play host to the “Super Bowl of Rock.” The photo from the Chicago History Museum above shows the “Super Bowl of Rock” on June 4, 1977. The concert featured British bands Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Foghat; and the Climax Blues Band. American rock group the J. Geils Band also performed. But that was just the first “game” in the rock concert series. Other “games” performed later that summer included Pink Floyd, Journey, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, .38 Special, REO Speedwagon, UFO, Rick Derringer, Bob Seger, and Peter Frampton. Soldier Field looked a little different back then, huh?