The Los Angeles Rams are Super Bowl LVI champions after a 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday at SoFi Stadium.
Rams receiver Cooper Kupp was named Super Bowl MVP with eight catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winning 1-yard score with 1:29 remaining.
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Rams 23, Bengals 20 — FINAL
Contents
- 1 Super Bowl media review: Al Michaels has still got it
- 2 Von Miller on Aaron Donald: ‘Can’t see him walking away from this’
- 3 Eric Weddle opens up on ‘wild and crazy’ return to NFL
- 4 Rare company for Cooper Kupp
- 5 Burrow’s message after the loss
- 6 The biggest day of Van Jefferson’s life
- 7 Nothing but love for Detroit
Super Bowl media review: Al Michaels has still got it
If Sunday was an audition for what Al Michaels — who was calling his 11th Super Bowl — can do heading forward, well, it was a little like John Lennon after the Beatles’ rooftop concert in 1969 at their Apple Corps headquarters in London.
Michaels passed the audition. He was unsurprisingly excellent on Sunday night and continues to call a quality game at 77. Michaels has always had a great feel for adding something beyond his call, and here was an example of that. After Cooper Kupp’s 20-yard reception with 8:46 remaining in the first quarter, Michaels gave you a small but interesting nugget that Kupp was the only player other than Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady to receive an MVP vote.
The “Sunday Night Football” team has earned a reputation as being the gold standard of NFL production, and everything on Sunday reaffirmed that assessment. The most important questions for a production: Did they fully document the game? Did they provide you as a viewer what you needed for the plays that determined the outcome. On both accounts, the answer was yes.
Von Miller on Aaron Donald: ‘Can’t see him walking away from this’
“I don’t know, man,” Miller said of Donald considering retirement. “He’s done everything you can possibly do. But this feeling here, there’s nothing like it. It’s addictive. Once you feel this — coming to the Super Bowl is one thing. But winning it is different. And we’ll just have to see.
“He’s done so much. But I’ll tell you, this feeling is great. It just makes you want it more and more and more. But he’s definitely capped off a great career, if he chooses to do that. But this is an addictive feeling and I can’t see him walking away from this.”
