LA Rams defeat Cincinnati Bengals to win Super Bowl 2022

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — They were built for this, desperate for this and assembled for this, an unprecedented urgency attached to a season that could be judged a success with only one possible outcome: Win it all.

Anything less than everything would mean nothing to the Rams. They mortgaged their future for the present and that present looked bleak Sunday night, when they trailed the Bengals late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 56.

A drive to win or abject failure.

Matthew Stafford hung tough and orchestrated a mammoth 15-play, 79-yard drive. Eli Apple, the former Giants first-round pick, was called for holding when he grabbed Cooper Kupp’s jersey, putting the Rams on the 1-yard line. Liking what they saw, the Rams went that way again, and Stafford had no trouble lofting the ball to Kupp in the end zone, with Apple in coverage and never reacting to the pass.

The touchdown put the Rams ahead with 1:25 remaining. Stafford hung tough on the drive that took 4:48 off the clock. When Aaron Donald hit Joe Burrow with 39 seconds remaining, it was over, and the Rams secured a stirring 23-20 victory on their own SoFi Stadium turf.

 

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