LOS ANGELES — Matthew Stafford did not do it the easy way, but this was much more fitting. Over 15 plays and 79 yards in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LVI, ending with a short touchdown pass to Cooper Kupp, one signature drive capped off the year that rewrote the story of his NFL career.
On Sunday evening, the Rams topped the Bengals 23–20, in a home stadium filled with more fans in orange than blue, to capture their first championship in 22 years and the franchise’s first in L.A. since 1951. And now everything is different.