Super Bowl Rings and Homefield Advantage: A Look at NFL History and Future Possibilities

It’s been a week since the American football season ended with a Super Bowl LVIII of heart attack.

Los Chiefs were crowned league champions for the second consecutive year and achieving the fourth Vince Lombardi for the franchise.

Like every year, the championship rings have been improving and in recent days the ring that the Los Angeles Rams won in the Super Bowl LVI in front of the Cincinnati Bengals (20-23)

The franchise that returned to Los Angeles in 2016 got its second ring in 2021, thus breaking a 22-year drought and the ring had to be unique in the world.

Inspired by the ring Super Bowl LV, who won Tampa Bay Buccaneers con Tom Brady to the Kansas City Chiefs of Mahomes (31-9), the Rams wanted to repeat what the Buccaneers did.

In that Super Bowl LV, fate wanted the team that plays at home in the Raymond James Stadium of Tampa were the champions in their own stadium and that’s how they wanted to immortalize it on their ring.

Fate was capricious two years in a row

The following season, the same thing happened that happened with the Buccaneers. On this occasion, it was the turn of the Los Angeles Rams, who play at home in the SoFi Stadiumstadium where that year’s final was played.

It seems that playing in your home stadium brings good luck and the Rams won the final at home against the Bengals and “copied” the concept of the ring by adding the stadium where they played in the final inside.

On this occasion, the Rams wanted to add a different detail, on the inside of the ring, they added part of the leather from the balls with which they played in the final.

Which teams have played the Super Bowl in your stadium?

Although it has occurred twice in a row in recent years, it is normal for this event not to occur. Only on two other occasions has this event occurred in the entire history of the NFL, which puts 4/58 finals played by local teams in their stadium.

Curiously, the first to do so were the Los Angeles Rams in 1980. They faced the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl XIV where they lost 31-19.

Five seasons later, in Super Bowl XIX, the San Francisco 49ers played the final at their “home”, since this final was played at Stamford Stadium, a stadium that is located in California and was less than an hour away. trip for 49ers fans.

In this Super Bowl XIX, the local team was crowned champion, defeating the Miami Dolphins 38-16 with a Joe Montana who received the MVP of the final.

In this way, the saying appears that if a franchise plays the Super Bowl in its stadium, luck is on its side.

Who can achieve it in the next few years?

Super Bowl LIX will be played in the stadium Louisiana Superdomestadium in which New Orleans Saints They play at home.

If they achieved this, they would overcome the streak of 1980 of two finals won by local teams in 5 years, being three in five and they would dethrone the Chiefs They want to win their third consecutive ring, something that has never been achieved in the history of the NFL.

2024-02-19 18:43:42
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