Ja'Marr Chase finished with five catches for 89 yards. Tee Higgins had four catches for 100 yards and two scores. He finished with two sacks and two tackles for loss on a night when LA sacked Burrow seven times.īurrow finished the game with 22-of-33 passing for 263 yards and a touchdown. Donald threw Joe Burrow to the ground on a fourth-and-1, forcing Burrow's pass to fall incomplete.His impact was felt long before that, though. Kupp finished with eight catches for 92 yards and two scores.įor as big Kupp's score was, however, Donald's play on the defensive line was just as key. He made the go-ahead touchdown grab from Matthew Stafford with 1:25 left in the fourth quarter as part of a Super Bowl MVP effort. Coupled with the Rams struggling in the run game (they finished with 43 yards on 23 carries), that put more of the onus on Kupp.īut as he had done all season, Kupp made a massive timely catch. suffered a left knee injury and was eventually ruled out in the third quarter. LA was dealt a major blow to its offense when wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.The Rams defeated the Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl 56 on Sunday thanks to - who else? - Cooper Kupp and Aaron Donald. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “It transcends the game because of those healthcare workers that are going to be there.” “This concept of honoring the heroes I think is going to color the entire presence of the Super Bowl,” Nantz said last week. About 22,000 fans were in attendance, including 7,500 vaccinated health care workers the NFL invited. Veteran play-caller Jim Nantz, who was in the booth on Sunday, told CNN Business last week that this year’s Super Bowl would be “completely different” since the stadium would not be totally full because of Covid.Īlthough Raymond James Stadium in Tampa was somewhat vacant on Sunday, it wasn’t entirely empty. Here's what it'll be like to call a Super Bowl during a pandemic (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images) Octavio Jones/Getty Images The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play the Kansas City Chiefs in Raymond James Stadium for Super Bowl LV on February 7. National Football League fans convene in downtown Tampa ahead of Super Bowl LV during the COVID-19 pandemic on Januin Tampa, Florida. (PEP), however, did sponsor the halftime show, which included The Weeknd, fireworks and an army of dancers dressed like the singer with bandaged faces. It’s not a total shock that the ratings declined from last year, because the game was never really competitive.Įven the ads felt a bit off, with major sponsors like Budweiser, Coca-Cola This year’s matchup, in which the Tampa Bay Buccaneers blew out the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 to nab Brady his 7th Super Bowl ring, averaged 91.6 million viewers on CBS alone. That number was down from last year’s Super Bowl, which averaged roughly 102 million viewers across Fox and streaming. Super Bowl LV averaged 96.4 million viewers across TV and streaming, according to CBS. But the big game still brought in another Super Bowl victory for Tom Brady and a sizable - if somewhat smaller - audience. Taking place in the middle of a global pandemic Super Bowl LV was an NFL championship game unlike any other.
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