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The Super Bowl is just hours away, ready to kick off on Sunday. After the biggest season in NFL history, we're down to two teams: the and the . The two sides couldn't be more different on the surface, one defying all odds to reach this point and the other realizing its on-paper potential. But they figure to make for must-see TV on the biggest stage in football.As we gear up for Super Bowl LVI, here are 56 things to know for the big game:1.Super Bowl LVI will be played between the Bengals and Rams, marking the first time these teams have met in a championship.2.This is the Bengals' first Super Bowl appearance since 1988, when they lost to the , 20-16.3.Before this season, the Bengals had not won a playoff game since 1990, when they beat the Oilers (now the ), the longest drought in the four major North American sports. 4.The Bengals have appeared in three Super Bowls total, including this one. Their first two -- in 1981 and 1988 -- were both against the 49ers. They lost to San Francisco both times, and each time by one score.5.The Rams, on the Wilt Chamberlain Jersey other hand, are making their fifth Super Bowl appearance, and their second in the last four years.6.Los Angeles last appeared in the big game in 2018, when the defeated them, 13-3, in the lowest-scoring Super Bowl of all time. 7.The Rams last won the Super Bowl in 1999, when they beat the Titans, 23-16, in Super Bowl XXXIV to cap a drastic turnaround as the "Greatest Show on Turf."8.This matchup marks the first time in Super Bowl history that both teams entered the playoffs as No. 4 seeds.9.Both teams' quarterbacks -- , for the Bengals; and , for the Rams -- are former No. 1 overall draft picks. 10.Burrow is finishing just his second NFL season. At 25, he's looking to become one of the youngest QBs to ever win a Super Bowl, behind just Ben Roethlisberger (23), (24) and (24).11.Burrow mi sed the final six games of his rookie 2020 season due to a knee injury. He's just over a year removed from suffering a torn ACL and MCL, as well as PCL and meniscus damage.12.This year, Burrow set the Bengals' single-season franchise record for pa sing yards (4,616), touchdowns (34) and pa ser rating (108.3). He also led the NFL in completion percentage (70.4). 13.Just two years in, Burrow is to former Super Bowl champion Joe Namath, also nicknamed "Joe Cool," complete with glitzy fashion -- like a "JB9" diamond chain he wore after the AFC Championship.14.Matthew Stafford Julius Erving Jersey , the Rams' QB, is finishing his first season in Los Angeles. He spent the first 12 years of his NFL career with the .15.Stafford appeared in just three playoff games during his 12 years in Detroit, winning none of them. In his first year with the Rams, he's gone 3-0 in the postseason. 16.Stafford, 33, set career highs in completion percentage (67.2) and pa sing touchdowns (41) this year. Only Tom Brady (43) threw more TDs.17. Jahlil Okafor Jersey Exactly one year before he led the Rams over the 49ers in the NFC Championship, Stafford was traded from the Lions in exchange for QB and three draft picks, including two first-rounders. The trade became official in March.18.Goff, another former No. 1 overall pick, was the Rams' starting QB the last time Los Angeles advanced to the Super Bowl. 19.Stafford is just one of several big-name veterans the Rams acquired this season. L.A. also traded future draft picks for former Patriots running back and former Super Bowl champion pa s rusher , and signed former wide receiver .20.Stafford's top wide receiver, , just finished a historic year for the Rams. His 145 catches and 1,947 receiving yards rank second all-time, behind only (149 catches) and (1,964 yards).21.Kupp broke the all-time record for most scrimmage yards by a receiver, with 1,965. 22.In the Rams' NFC Championship win, Kupp also broke Michael Irvin's 25-year-old record for most 100-yard games in a season, including playoffs, logging his 13th time eclipsing the century mark. Moses Malone Jersey 23.The Bengals' top receiver, , was drafted fifth overall in 2021 out of LSU, where he played with Burrow. The rookie broke a franchise record with 1,455 yards on the season, the fourth-most among all NFL wideouts.24.Of all receivers with at least 500 yards, Chase ranked second in the NFL in yards per catch (18), behind only the 49ers' . His 13 TDs ranked third in the league. 25.The Bengals were the only NFL team besides the to have three different players top 800 receiving yards: Chase (1,455), (1,091) and (828) topped their pa s-catching corps.26.The Rams' No. 2 receiver, Odell Beckham Jr., spent the first six games of the season on the Browns. Cleveland released him amid a diminished role in its offense, as well as controversy surrounding rumored discontent with QB .27.Rams coach Sean McVay, 36, is looking for his first Super Bowl win, and to become the youngest head coach to ever hoist the Lombardi Trophy. coach Mike Tomlin holds that distinction for winning Super Bowl XLIII at 36. 28.McVay will be up against Bengals coach Zac Taylor, 38, marking the youngest pair of Super Bowl head coaches in the game's history.29.Taylor worked under McVay directly before becoming Bengals coach, spending one year as the Rams' a sistant wide receivers coach (2017) and one as the team's QBs coach (2018).30.Taylor is a former QB who went undrafted out of Nebraska in 2007, briefly spending time with the Buccaneers and in the Canadian Football League before transitioning to coaching.31.Taylor went 6-25-1 in his first two seasons running the Bengals, replacing longtime coach Marvin Lewis, who led seven playoff runs in 16 years but never won a postseason game. Cincy's march to the Super Bowl since 2019, when the Bengals finished Sergio Rodriguez Jersey 2-14, marks the most drastic two-season turnaround for a Super Bowl team.32.McVay, who was hired by the Rams at just 30 in 2017, has led four playoff appearances in his five years on the job. His career winning percentage (.679) ranks 10th all-time, ahead of greats like Bill Belichick, Don Shula and Tony Dungy.33.McVay and the Rams will play the Super Bowl on their own turf at SoFi Stadium, in Inglewood, California.34.By playing at SoFi Stadium, the Rams will look to become the second straight team to win it all in their own stadium. Before the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, to end the 2020 season, no team had ever done it.35.The Rams are currently
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