The Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) defeated the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl game. The game ended with the score 23:20.
The game was scored by Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham in the middle of the first quarter, who caught a pass from quarterback Drew Stafford in the end zone. This attack was completed by kicker Matt Gay, who converted an extra point, after which Los Angeles took the lead - 7:0. At the end of the quarter, the Bengals scored three points thanks to the accurate strike of kicker Evan McPherson from 29 yards.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the Rams earned another touchdown: this time, Stafford found the transfer of Cooper Kapp, who made the score 13:3. Instead of an extra point, the Los Angeles coaching staff decided to play a two-point combination, but this idea ended with an interception of the ball.
Six minutes before the end of the first half of the game, the Cincinnati players played a trick combination, as a result of which the wide receiver Tee Higgins, from the passing of running back Joe Mixon, brought his team another six points. McPherson made the score 13:10, just breaking through the extra-point.
The second half of the game began with a touchdown for the Bengals: already at 12 seconds, Ty Higgins put his team ahead. On the episode, quarterback Joe Barrow passed for 75 yards. Higgins violated the rules while receiving the ball, but the referees did not notice this. McPherson added an extra point and the score became 17:13 in favor of Cincinnati.
A few minutes later, the Bengals kicker successfully converted a field goal, adding three more points to his team's treasury - 20:13. In the third quarter, Los Angeles managed to close the lead with a field goal from the 41st yard from Matt Gay.
Up until the end of the game, Cincinnati led 20:16, but a minute and a half before the final whistle, Cooper Kapp earned another touchdown from a Stafford pass. The final score in the game was set by the Rams kicker, who converted an extra point.
The MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the match was Cooper Kapp. He became only the eighth wide receiver in history to receive this award. In addition, Kapp became the second player in NFL history to win the Super Bowl MVP award and become the regular season offensive player of the year in the same season (QB Joe Montana did the same in 1989).
Tom Brady has officially announced his retirement from American football Others The match was held at SoFi Stadium, which is located in Inglewood (California). This stadium is the home arena of the Rams and another NFL team, the Los Angeles Chargers. This is the second year in a row that one of the participants in the decisive match of the season has played at his home stadium. Last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became the first club in history to play a Super Bowl game at their stadium. At the same time, the players of the Cincinnati became the nominal hosts of the 56th Super Bowl as a result of the draw, that is, the situation when the team playing at its stadium in the Super Bowl officially became the away team occurred for the first time in the history of the league.
The Super Bowl is the highest-rated event in the United States and annually attracts more than 100 million viewers from television screens. Between the second and third quarters, a spectacular music show is traditionally held - this year rappers Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, as well as R&B artist Mary J. Blige.
This season, the Los Angeles Rams won 12 wins and 5 losses in the regular season. The indicator of "Cincinnati Bengals" was more modest (10 wins with 7 defeats). Both teams finished first in their divisions. In the playoffs, Los Angeles first beat the Arizona Cardinals (34:11), then, unexpectedly for many, outplayed last year's Super Bowl winner Tampa (30:27), and in the conference finals was stronger than the San Francisco 49ers » (20:17).
Cincinnati, which few people even bet on getting into the playoffs, beat the Las Vegas Raiders in the first round (26:19), sensationally defeated the Tennessee Titans in the second round (19:16), and in the conference finals performed another miracle: he knocked out the main favorite of the Kansas City Chiefs, which includes Patrick Mahomes, the highest paid athlete in the world, from the fight for the trophy.
Super Bowl: How Advertisers Prepare for America's Biggest TV Event in the previous season). In the 2020 draft, the Cincinnati Blues selected quarterback Joe Barrow with the first pick, and a year later they took wide receiver Jamarr Chase with the fifth pick. Both players became leaders of the team and brought it to the Super Bowl, which became the third in history for the Bengals (the club had previously played in the main game of the season in 1981 and 1988, but lost both times to San Francisco).
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