2021 Super Bowl moves to Tampa

The 2021 Super Bowl has been moved by the NFL from Los Angeles to Tampa.

Five days after the opening of the $2.6 billion football stadium in Inglewood, Calif., was pushed back to 2020 because of construction delays caused by Los Angeles’ uncommonly wet winter, league owners approved the move Tuesday. Owners voted unanimously to give the February 2021 game to Tampa and have the Rams’ and Chargers’ new home host the 2022 Super Bowl.

The NFL would have needed to waive a rule that prohibits a Super Bowl being played at a stadium before it has hosted two full regular seasons. Instead, it chose to move the game to Tampa, runner-up to Los Angeles in the bidding.

“Our focus in this process is this building should host multiple Super Bowls over many generations, and we need to make sure we deliver a building that is an exceptional, Super Bowl-quality building,” Rams chief operating officer said last week. “Our focus is more on the caliber of building than the exact year of the Super Bowl.”

Meanwhile, after years of limiting how —and how much — players could celebrate following touchdowns, the league decided to loosen up its rules, allowing players to again use the football as a prop, celebrate as a group and roll around or flap their arms like snow angels on the ground again if they choose. New England Patriots announced they will have two days of joint practices during training camp. The Jaguars and Patriots will practice together on Aug. 7-8 (Monday-Tuesday) in Foxborough, Mass., and play a preseason game at Gillette Stadium on Aug. 10 (7:30 p.m.).

The Jaguars held their first Organized Team Activity Thursday morning. The only player who did not show up was left tackle

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Miami quarterback

has joined PETA to speak out against research practices involving dogs at his alma mater, Texas A&M.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) accuses the school of breeding dogs to have muscular dystrophy for the purpose of conducting experiments, a claim that the university refutes.

Tannehill, who as recently as 2014 owned two dogs — Bear, a black Labrador retriever, and Coco, a dachshund — sent a letter to Texas A&M president asking him to put an end to the practice, according to a PETA news release. Dolphins