For football fans, Super Bowl LVI, which will see the L.A. Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals facing off in the Rams’ home stadium, promises a close game between two talented teams. (Bengals fans will be especially pumped given that their team hasn’t made it to the Super Bowl since 1982.) For others, the game offers an annual excuse to indulge in wings and dips and pigs in a blanket while tuning in for a halftime show—this year, it’s Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg—and “new” commercials they’ve already seen in the lead-up to the big game. (Scarlett Johansson really looks like that when she wakes up next to Colin Jost, right?) Still others won’t be able to watch at all, laid low by the fact that Tom Brady will never play in another Super Bowl. Here, a look through the archives of the game. —Julia Vitale
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Gridiron Giants
Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, a look back through the archives of America’s favorite sport
February 12, 2022
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