Super Bowl 2022 LIVE: Los Angeles Rams vs Cincinnati Bengals result as Cooper Kupp wins MVP

Precious moments for Andrew Whitworth, perhaps his final ones in an NFL jersey. What a warrior - 40 years old, playing through the pain at left tackle for so much of the season and now a Super Bowl champion for the first time. A fitting Walter Payton Man of the Year.

It wasn’t to be a fitting finish to the fairytale for the Cincinnati Bengals. But Zac Taylor’s team were moments away from a Super Bowl triumph that would have arrived ahead of schedule, and you have to feel good about the direction of Cincinnati if they can shore up the offensive line and find another defensive difference-maker. With Joe Burrow at the helm, and Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins at his disposal, they will always have a shot, but their deficiencies did finally come back to bite them.

Until last year, a team had never played a Super Bowl in their home stadium. The Buccaneers last year, the Rams this - it’s becoming something of a pattern.

Good news for the Cardinals? The Super Bowl is headed for Phoenix next year...

More good news for a couple of Los Angeles Rams after winning their first Super Bowl: Taylor Rapp makes it two rings in one night, proposing to his partner on the SoFi surface (she said yes, of course), while Van Jefferson has hurried off to the hospital - his wife went into labour during the game, so Jefferson only had time for a brief celebration before grabbing his daughter and rushing away. We wish the Jeffersons well.

How about that last drive from the Los Angeles Rams? 15 plays, 79 yards, just shy of five minutes. Four completions to Cooper Kupp, who also produced a vital fourth-down conversion on an end-around.

This throw is something special from Matthew Stafford. A no-look dagger right through the heart of Cincinnati.

For what it is worth (very little), I’d have leaned towards Aaron Donald for Super Bowl MVP, though a shared gong, as happened at the end of Super Bowl 12, would have been appropriate. The Rams defensive line took over in that second half. Offensively, Los Angeles just didn’t get anything going, but Joe Burrow was harassed and harried and kept in check, that controversial long touchdown to Tee Higgins aside.

“I don’t feel deserving of this. I’m so thankful of the guys I get to be around, the coaches, my family. I don’t know what to say.

“I just don’t have words. These guys up here are my support network. They’ve challenged me, they’ve pushed me, they’ve made it so much fun.”