The Los Angeles team beat the Bengals 23-20. Cooper Kupp was the MVP and Aaron Donald decided the match. Sean McVay, youngest coach to be champion. Countless celebrities in the stands
Aaron Donald he is the best defender of the last decade in the NFL. Cooper Coup He has been the most dominant receiver this season. When the heroic Cincinnati Bengalswith their quarterback absolutely lame and again ignoring any logic, they looked on the verge of the mother of all surprises, Los Angeles Rams They remembered that their arsenal includes two guys who are cheating and the Super Bowl he stayed in California. Neither epic nor lyrical, it was pure Darwinism.
Trailing 16-20 with five minutes remaining, forced to score a touchdown to stay alive, the Rams put aside the strange strategy of running a lot to not advance anything that they had been applying all night and ordered the same play over and over again: balls to Kupp, that’s what you have it for. One, two, three, four… He took them all. Three and a half minutes later, Kupp culminated the outrage by scoring his second touchdown of the night and making it 23-20. Sometimes the sport is much simpler than the coaches try to make it seem, including the best, in case Sean McVay, the child prodigy who is today the youngest to win a Super Bowl. He is 36 years and 22 days old. If you need consolation in the face of this fact, some striking entries are coming out. He though he earns 9 million dollars. Come on, there is no consolation.
The Bengals, who throughout the playoffs have proven to be harder to kill than the fly that makes a nap sour, had a minute and a half to at least get close enough to score a 3-point kick and force overtime. At that moment, Joe Burrowto which to increase comparisons with the retired (for now) Tom Brady he only needed to win a Super Bowl for some super-favorite Rams like The Greatest in 2002, he had already destroyed a knee in an action where his scream made it miraculous that he was still standing. But he kept going. And limping like Joaquín Sabina in the Goyas, he managed to advance until Aaron Donald said enough. In the last action of the game, the wonder who was said to be too small for the NFL (he is 1.85 and weighs 130 kilos, but size has always been a relative thing), hung three rivals and knocked down the quarterback of Cincinnati unilaterally ending the game. He didn’t win the MVP because the you shine you shine that accompanies the attacking players reinforced the candidacy, not unreasonable, of Kupp, but the best player on the field was him. As usual.
And there ended a Super Bowl that in the second part became a duel with clubbing, but until then it had been the glamorous showtime that Los Angeles demands, where people don’t go to stadiums to watch sports but to be seen. Between touchdown and touchdown and with one of the best receptions of the year (glory to Jamarr Chase) as icing on the cake, the camera enjoyed focusing on the stands. LeBron James overreacted, Jennifer Lopez Y Ben Affleck demonstrating that the talent for dancing is distributed in all couples through communicating vessels, Kanye West asking for urgent help with their heads in a black bag… All embarked on a useless search for a home doomed to failure because the world looked at the only one who did not seek attention: Charlize Theron. The class is that.
Of course, it was impossible for the halftime show to disappoint in such a city. Although the best thing was that those of us from the rock generation confirmed that hip hop legends are going to age just as regularly as ours. As much as I try to hide Dr. Dre It seems what it is: the businessman who takes 200 bucks from you for a pair of headphones. If it is by tonnage, 50 Cent it should start being called 1 Dollar. Mary J. Blige It’s not Tina Turner. Eminem it has become your partner who wears his teenage son’s clothes to work Christmas dinner, albeit in defiance of the NFL by kneeling in tribute to Kaepernickeven though they had forbidden it, and sang Lose Yourselffor me you can go dressed as a lizard. Snoop Dogg He has the advantage that at 20 he already seemed on the verge of death. But Kendrick Lamar He is God and will continue to be in three decades. So all good. Very good, even.
But when they dismantled the stage, the party was over. The second part was football ancient, defenses, resistance, shocks, courage and two individualities that decided everything. The dwarf donald and the forgotten Kupp. Often sports is very simple: the best win. And this time, despite the beauty of Cinicinatti’s history, it was the Rams.
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