FACTS AND FIGURES
National Football League Championship for the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The Cincinnati Bengals play in their first Super Bowl since 1989, while the Los Angeles Rams are back for a second time in four years. The Rams get to play the big game in their home stadium.
KICKOFF
Sunday, Feb. 13, at 3:30 p.m. Pacific
HOW TO WATCH
Airing on NBC, which also is televising the Winter Olympics around it’s Super Bowl coverage. The game also will be streamed on the Peacock app.
THE TEAMS
Los Angeles Rams (NFC), 15-5, and Cincinnati Bengals (AFC), 13-7.
The Bengals (0-2) lost in the 1982 and ‘89 Super Bowls to San Francisco, and broke an eight-game postseason slide in these playoffs, also winning on the road for the first time in the playoffs.
The Rams (1-3) are in their fifth Super Bowl, having beaten Tennessee while based in St. Louis in 2000, losing to
Pittsburgh (1980) while based in
L.A., and twice to New England, in 2002 while based in St. Louis and
2019 while based in L.A.
OPENING LINE
The Rams opened as a 3.5-point favorite, according to Fanduel Sportsbook.
LAST MEETING
The last time the Rams and Bengals played was during 2019 season, when L.A. won 24-10. That was Coach Zac Taylor’s first season with Cincinnati, finishing with NFL’S worst record, 2-14, but also getting the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, landing their quarterback sensation Joe Burrow.
THE VENUE
Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California, opened in 2020 and is home to the Rams and Chargers. This marks only the second time in Super Bowl history, and the second straight year, where a team will play in the game in their home stadium. Last year, Tampa Bay became the first and won the game at Raymond James Stadium.
SEATING CAPACITY
The stadium normally seats 70,240, but is being expanded to 100,240 for the Super Bowl.
HALFTIME SHOW
Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar. The artists have won a combined 44 Grammys, with Eminem earning the most with 15. It is the first time for any of them to perform in the halftime show.
BACK TO LA
This marks the eighth Super Bowl played in the Los Angeles area, but the first since the 1993 game at the Rose Bowl. The first Super Bowl, which followed the 1966 merger of the NFL and the AFL, was at the LA Memorial Coliseum on Jan. 15, 1967, and -- get this -- did not sell out as the Packers defeated the Chiefs 35-10. It wasn’t even called Super Bowl yet, just the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. Since then, the game has been staged once more at the Coliseum (1973) and five times at the Rose Bowl (1977, 1980, 1983, 1987 and 1993).