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The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will participate in an unexpected matchup in the 56th Super Bowl, the first in NFL history that does not feature any of the top three seeds in either conference. It will take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California — the first time in NFL history that a team will host a conference championship game and the Super Bowl in the same season, with the Rams taking that honor.
The NFL regular season was extended to 17 games this season, which created an 18-week season for the first time since 1993 (when the NFL had two bye weeks), and every portion of the schedule was pushed back a week. That means the NFL’s longest…
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