Dynamic Duo Dominance: Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, and the Journey to Multiple Super Bowl Rings
It’s been a week since the football season ended with a heart-stopping Super Bowl LVIII.
The Chiefs were crowned league champions for the second year in a row, winning the franchise’s fourth Vince Lombardi trophy.
As every year, the championship rings have been getting bigger and more extravagant and in recent days the ring that the Los Angeles Rams won in Super Bowl LVI against the Cincinnati Bengals (20-23) has gone viral.
The franchise that returned to Los Angeles in 2016 got its second ring in 2021, breaking a 22-year drought and the ring had to be fittingly unique.
Inspired by the Super Bowl LV ring won by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with Tom Brady over Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs (31-9), the Rams wanted to replicate what the Buccaneers did.
In that Super Bowl LV, as fate would have it, the home team at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium were the champions in their own stadium and wanted to immortalize it on their ring.
The Rams were victorious in their own stadium
The following season, it was the turn of the Los Angeles Rams, who play their home games at SoFi Stadium, the stadium where that year’s final game 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 the final to the inside.
This time, the Rams wanted to add a different detail, on the inside of the ring, they added part of the leather of the balls they played the final with.
Which teams have played the Super Bowl in their stadium?
Although in recent years it has happened twice in a row, this is not a common occurrence. Only two other times in the history of the NFL has this happened, which makes 4/58 finals played by home teams in their stadium.
The first to do so, curiously enough, were the Los Angeles Rams in 1980. They faced the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIV where they lost 31-19.
Five seasons later, in Super Bowl XIX, the San Francisco 49ers played the final at “home”, as this final was played at Stamford Stadium, which is located in California and was less than an hour’s drive away for 49ers fans.
In this Super Bowl XIX, the home team was indeed crowned champion, beating the Miami Dolphins 38-16 with Joe Montana receiving the MVP of the final.
Thus, the saying that if a franchise plays the Super Bowl in its home stadium, luck is on its side.Super Bowl LIX will be played in the Louisiana Superdome, the home stadium of the New Orleans Saints.
If they win it, they would surpass the 1980 streak of two finals won by home teams in five years, making it three in five, and they would dethrone the Chiefs who want to win their third consecutive ring, something that has never been achieved in the history of the NFL.
