NFL owners voted Wednesday to award the 2004 championship game to Houston, the 2005 game to Jacksonville and the 2006 game to Detroit. Miami and Oakland also made bids for the 2005 game.

Detroit's delegation was led by Mayor Dennis Archer and racing team owner Roger Penske. Houston was represented by Mayor Lee Brown and Bob McNair, owner of the Texans expansion team that will begin play in 2002. Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver spearheaded Jacksonville's bid.

"A lot of people worked very hard on this," Weaver said.

Houston's Super Bowl will come at the end of the Texans' second season at their new 69,500-seat retractable roof stadium, under construction next to the Astrodome.

Houston first played host to the Super Bowl in 1974 at Rice Stadium. Detroit also is getting its second Super Bowl. The 1982 game was played at the Pontiac Silverdome.

In 2006, the Super Bowl will be played at Ford Field, a new downtown domed stadium.