The Los Angeles Rams will face the Cincinnati Bengals in Tremendous Bowl LVI (56) on their house box at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. Kickoff is about for six:30 p.m. ET (3:30 p.m native time) on Sunday.
Los Angeles is the second one immediately staff to host the identify sport, becoming a member of Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers who received Tremendous Bowl LV final 12 months at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Within the first 54 Tremendous Bowls, no staff hosted the sport.
Each groups are quantity 4 seeds, matching the perfect blended seeding within the sport since seeding started in 1975.
Los Angeles, the NFC champion, is showing in its 5th Tremendous Bowl, 2nd within the final 4 seasons. The Rams are in search of the franchise’s 2nd Tremendous Bowl identify, however first in LA. The Rams received Tremendous Bowl XXXIV towards the Tennessee Titans in Atlanta when the group was once in St. Louis in 2000.
Greater than 180 international locations and territories will televise the sport are living. The competition might be broadcast in about 25 languages.
The beginning quarterbacks
Each have been decided on primary general of their respective drafts, making this the second one Tremendous Bowl matchup between two primary general sign callers. The primary one was once Tremendous Bowl 50, Denver Broncos Peyton Manning and Carolina Panthers Cam Newton.
Simply two seasons in the past, Cincinnati completed with an NFL-worst 2-14 file. However for that futility, Bengals secured the 1st general pick out within the 2020 NFL draft and decided on Burrow out of LSU.
Burrow is the 1st best general pick out to succeed in the Tremendous Bowl inside of his first two seasons, and with a win, the 25-year-old can change into the 1st quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy, a faculty nationwide championship and a Tremendous Bowl.
Cincinnati is the 1st staff ever with a 4,000-yard passer, 1,000-yard rusher (Joe Mixon) and two 1,000-yard receivers (Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins) every underneath the age of 26.
The dynamic duo of Burrow and Chase, who additionally went to LSU, will glance to duplicate their collegiate good fortune once they tackle a tricky Rams protection.
Led by means of All-Professional defensive take on Aaron Donald, All-Professional cornerback Jalen Ramsey, and Tremendous Bowl 50 MVP and eight-time Professional Bowl linebacker Von Miller, who was once traded to LA in November, Rams protection had the 0.33 maximum sacks (50), allowed the second one least passing touchdowns (17) and have been tied for 0.33 in interceptions made (19) within the league all over the common season.
After 12 years with the Detroit Lions, Stafford was once traded to LA on January 30, 2021. Precisely twelve months later, Stafford and the Rams beat the San Francisco 49ers within the NFC Championship sport, incomes a Tremendous Bowl berth. Previous to this season, the 34-year-old by no means received a postseason sport.
Within the common season, Stafford completed within the best 5 in passing yards, passing touchdowns, passing first downs and yards in keeping with strive.
His major goal, Cooper Kupp, was once decided on to his first Professional Bowl. Kupp was the fourth participant in NFL historical past to win the receiving Triple Crown by means of main the league in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
Stafford can be depending on some other in-season acquisition, Odell Beckham Jr. In 11 video games with the staff, together with 3 within the playoffs, Beckham Jr. has 46 receptions for 541 yards and 6 touchdowns.
Youngest training matchup
This would be the youngest head training matchup in Tremendous Bowl historical past.
Bengals head trainer Zac Taylor, 38, is making his Tremendous Bowl head training debut. Taylor was once on McVay’s offensive body of workers from 2017-2018, showing within the Tremendous Bowl as quarterback trainer. After going 6-25-1 in his first two years on the helm, Taylor led the Bengals to a 10-7 common season file, 3-0 within the postseason.
In 2019, McVay beat Taylor in the one sport they confronted every different, a 24-10 Rams’ victory in London.
The stadium can accomodate roughly 70,000 fanatics, and for particular occasions, expandable as much as 100,000.
The league stated “65,000 or so” spectators are anticipated to wait on Sunday. Just about 25,000 fanatics have been eventually 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl on account of the coronavirus pandemic.
Los Angeles is webhosting the sport for the 1st time in just about 30 years and 8th general, 0.33 maximum at the back of Miami (11) and New Orleans (10).
‘An unforgettable cultural second’
Hip-hop icons – Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar – headline the star-studded halftime display in what Dr. Dre says, “might be an unforgettable cultural second.”
For the 1st time ever, the 5 multi-award-winning artists – who’ve 43 Grammys and 22 primary billboard albums blended – will carry out in combination on level.
This might be a homecoming efficiency for Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar who’re from Compton, California and Snoop Dogg who’s from Lengthy Seaside, California.
“Artists like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg have been at the leading edge of the West Coast hip hop revolution.” Todd Kaplan, Pepsi Advertising Vice President stated in a commentary.
“So so that you could deliver them again to LA, the place all of it started along Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will end up to be an epic, unforgettable party of the have an effect on hip hop has nowadays.”
Mickey Guyton, a multi-Grammy-nominated artist, will sing the Nationwide Anthem. Guyton’s 2021 debut album, “Take note Her Title,” earned her a Grammy nomination for highest nation album, the first-ever for a Black artist.
