LA Rams win Super Bowl LVI, their 1st for the city of Los Angeles

The Rams franchise had won just one Super Bowl, but that Super Bowl victory occurred for the city of Saint Louis, Missouri. But through all of the different iterations of the LA Rams, the team never got over that ‘hump’. The Rams organization had appeared in four previous Super Bowls, and the franchise record for those appearances was an aggregate 1-3.

Still, that’s not how some fans view this team. There is the Los Angeles version of the Rams and the Saint Louis version of the Rams. Until Super Bowl LVI, the lone Super Bowl victory happened in Super Bowl XXXIV and can be quickly Google’s by searching for either the term “The Tackle” or the term “One Yard Short”.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The first appearance by the Rams in any Super Bowl was earned by the LA Rams in Super Bowl XIV but lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers

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The Rams franchise’s first Super Bowl win, SB XXXIV, was brought to be by St. Louis Rams head coach Dick Vermeil, and the sensational passing of quarterback Kurt Warner. The Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans in that one. Vermeil retired after that game. Two years later, his successor Mike Martz got the Rams back to the Super Bow XXXVl. But the Rams ran into a young buzzsaw named Tom Brady, who played well enough to get the win.

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The next time the Rams, now the LA Rams, would return to the Super Bowl was in the second year of HC Sean McVay’s watch. Once more, the Rams ran into the Tom Brady buzzsaw in Super Bowl LIII and lost by a humbling score of 13-3.

That loss truly forced the LA Rams to regroup. For two seasons, the Rams offensive output was such that defenses were simply overwhelmed with trying to cover the football field vertically and horizontally.  But the New England Patriots discovered that mixing coverages, attacking the quarterback, and upping the defensive tempo.

The Rams would not solve that problem until the 2021 NFL season when the team traded for veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford. With Stafford under center, the LA Rams could rely upon the offense to move the ball and keep the team competitive.

That theory would be tested to its limits when the LA Rams faced the Cincinnati Bengals without WR Robert Woods, TE Tyler Higbee, TE Johnny Mundt, and would lose WR Odell Beckham Jr. in the first half of the game. Not only that, but the Rams were powerless to run the football.

Down 20-13, the Rams were able to pull off the comeback victory. With steady passes to Cooper Kupp and the occasional run or pass to other players, the Rams were able to kick a field goal to draw to within four points. Then with time running out Matthew Stafford found Cooper Kupp in the end zone for the game-winning score.

No, this was not an easy win. But it was a good win.

And just like that, the city of Los Angeles California has her first Lombardi Trophy. Perhaps it is the first of many to come for the LA Rams.