The 2022 NFL Superbowl

The 2022 NFL Superbowl

Tatum Bossell, Staff Writer

The NFL Superbowl 2022 has been trending for the past couple of weeks. The suspense was slowly getting larger to see who won the 2022 NFL Superbowl game. The teams who played in the 2022 Superbowl include the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. The game officially took place at 6:00 PM ET on Sunday, February 13 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California. 

To see who made it to the Superbowl, the NFL teams have to play in the playoffs. It all started on Monday, January 17. The Arizona Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams versed each other and the score ended up as 34-11. The Los Angeles Rams won that game and later played against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. To which, the Rams won that game as well. Finally, in the championship round, the San Francisco 49ers took the defeat towards the Rams.

The Rams then made it to the Superbowl with the Cincinnati Bengals. The Cincinnati Bengals played against the Las Vegas Raiders (Saturday, January 15), Tennessee Titans (Saturday, January 22), and the Kansas City Chiefs. The game played with the Cheifs determined whether the Bengals would make it to the Superbowl. The score was Bengals 27, Chiefs 24. The game was intense and had the crowd screaming. The Bengals won after fifteen minutes of overtime. Rookie kicker Evan McPherson kicked a 31-yard field goal which scored the three points over to win the game.

Over 70,000 people attended the Superbowl at the SoFi stadium. The Los Angeles Rams took the win by three points. A little less than the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, the Rams had scored 16 points and the Bengals had 20. The Rams suddenly scored a touchdown and took the win of the 2022 Superbowl with the six points from the touchdown and the extra point from Matthew Stafford kicking the ball into the goal.