Super Bowl 2022
The tourney was secured Sunday after the conference crowns. The Bengals beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in the AFC Championship. The Rams rallied to win the NFC Championship 20-17 over the San Francisco 49ers. The Rams and Bengals hadn't met since 2019, when the Bengals lost.
Super Bowl 56 is a battle of the anticipated versus unanticipated between the Rams and the Bengals. With the Rams edging the 49ers in the NFC crown game, Los Angeles made good on their trade for Matthew Stafford and are back in the Super Bowl for the alternate time in four times.
The Rams' appearance in the Super Bowl is not too surprising, but what happened in the AFC was. For the first time in over three decades, the Cincinnati Bengals are Super Bowl-bound, thanks in big part to Joe Burrow.
Whether it's"Joey Franchise," Joe Shiesty," Joe Brrr", or just straight"Joey B, "Cincinnati suckers can call him one thing inclusively AFC champion. Burrow and the Bengals offered an each-time great comeback vs the Chiefs to punch their ticket to Super Bowl 56.
Rams vs Bengals
With their palm over the 49ers, Los Angeles Rams come to the alternate platoon to play the Super Bowl in their home stadium. The Tampa Bay Rovers are the only other platoon to do this — and the only platoon to win the game at home.
The Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford fight for the platoon's alternate-ever Super Bowl title. The Rams' last and only palm came in 2000 — when the. Louis Rams were known against the Tennessee Elephants.
Cincinnati's palm over Kansas City on Sunday propelled the platoon to its third Super Bowl appearance in ballot history (and they are first since 1989). But the Bengals have noway won a Super Bowl.
The platoon's sacrifice trip was a far cry from 2019 when Cincinnati won just two games. While at the bottom, the Bengals used their top draft pick to capture quarterback Joe Burrow, who has led them in a surprising playoff run.
The big game is taking place at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The stadium, home to the Rams and the Dishes, opened in September 2020. The forthcoming game will mark the first Super Bowl to be hosted there.
NBC is broadcasting the Super Bowl this year. However, you can stream the game on Peacock, the NBC Sports App, If you do not havecable.com, SlingTV, or fuboTV, which has a 7- day free trial.
The Los Angeles Rams are headed to the Super Bowl for the first time three times, making NFL history in their fifth Super Bowl appearance as a ballot. Los Angeles will come to the first platoon to play in a conference crown game and a Super Bowl in their stadium, as both games will be played at SoFi Stadium.
The Tampa Bay Rovers were the first to play a Super Bowl in their stadium last time. (The Rovers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 at Raymond James Stadium.) SoFi Stadium was named the host of Super Bowl LVI in 2016, six times before the Rams came to the alternate platoon to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium.
There have been cases where brigades have played in a Super Bowl hosted at their request, but not their home stadium. The Rams were one of those brigades, as they played at the Rose Bowl in Super Bowl XIV-- but they played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The San Francisco 49ers played at Stanford Stadium in Super Bowl XIX, but their home games were at Candlestick Park.
