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The best and worst car commercials of the 2022 Super Bowl

Enlarge / Will Aibo owners feel a touch of nostalgia watching the Kia Super Bowl LVI ad? (credit: Aurich Lawson | Kia) For some people—mostly those who aren’t football fans—the commercials that accompany the Super Bowl are as important as the game itself. In 2022, we got a conflicting vision of the future—almost all the […]

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Aaron Donald’s reign of terror places him in pantheon of generational defensive players

Offensive highlights litter every catalog of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history, and even fewer of those great plays involve lumbering defensive linemen. A two-yard loss isn’t as exciting as a 25-yard scoring throw or a running back trampling an entire defense. But when the story of Super Bowl LVI is retold, … Read […]

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Joe Cool after the loss

Not many outside of Southern Ohio have seen a year No. 3 from Joe Burrow as a starting quarterback. He never started a game in his three seasons at Ohio State and had two superb years at LSU. His second year taking the mantle of the Cincinnati Bengals ended with a 23-20 loss in Super […]

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Odell Beckham Jr. is rewriting his narrative with the Rams

The last time Joe Burrow played in a title game, fellow LSU alumnus and current Rams receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was within attendance. Burrow (or Burreaux) helped the Bayou Bengals complete the undefeated season by lifting a national championship over Clemson inside Jan. 2020 in New Orleans, about four months before being… Read more…

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Eli (Bad) Apple’s unwarranted hubris has him running his mouth like a 24-hour 7-11

If the NFL had an award for Cockiest Player of the Year Without Any Good Reason, then Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Eli Apple would have taken it home at this year’s NFL Honors award ceremony. Apple has had quite the bit to say during the Bengals’ surprising run to the Super Bowl for a player with […]

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The Bengals are in the Super Bowl, but don’t expect them to pick up a check in L.A.

The Cincinnati Bengals have overcome quite a bit of adversity to get to Super Bowl LVI. They had to claw their way to an AFC North championship after some bad regular-season losses, including the infamous 400-yard Mike White game against the New York Jets, followed by getting smoked by Cleveland Browns, 41-16, the… Read more…

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The Super Bowl halftime show trailer almost makes you want to see it at a movie theater

For everything that the NFL did wrong with the Atlanta halftime show three years ago, they are trying to make up for it in a big way. When it first announced the Super LVI halftime show lineup of Dr . Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, and Eminem, it was clear what the […]