Super Bowl

The Los Angeles team beat the Bengals 23-20. Cooper Kupp was the MVP and Aaron Donald decided the match. Sean McVay, youngest coach to be champion. Countless celebrities in the stands

Aaron Donald is the best defender of the last decade in the NFL

Cooper Kupp has been the most dominant receiver this season. When the heroic Cincinnati Bengals , with their quarterback utterly lame and again ignoring any logic, looked on the brink of the mother of all upsets, the Los Angeles Rams remembered that their arsenal includes two cheating guys and the Super Bowl stayed . in California. Neither epic nor lyrical, it was pure Darwinism.

Trailing 16-20 with five minutes remaining, forced to score a touchdown to stay alive, the Rams put aside the strange strategy of running a lot to not advance anything that they had been applying all night and ordered the same play over and over again: balls to Kupp , that’s what you have it for. One, two, three, four… He took them all. Three and a half minutes later, Kupp culminated the outrage by scoring his second touchdown of the night and making it 23-20. Sometimes the sport is much simpler than the coaches insist on making it seem, including the best, in the case of Sean McVay , the child prodigy who is today the youngest to win a Super Bowl. She is 36 years and 22 days old. If you need consolation in the face of this fact, some striking entries are coming out. Although she earns 9 million dollars. Come on, there is no consolation.

The Bengals , who throughout the playoffs have proven to be harder to kill than the fly that ruins a nap, had a minute and a half to at least get close enough to score a 3-point kick and force overtime. At that time, Joe Burrow , who to increase comparisons with the retired (for now) Tom Brady only needed to win a Super Bowl against the Ramssuperfavorites like El Más Grande in 2002, he had already destroyed a knee in an action where his scream made it miraculous that he was still standing. But he kept going. And limping like Joaquín Sabina in the Goyas, he managed to advance until Aaron Donald said enough. In the last action of the game, the wonder who was said to be too small for the NFL (he is 1.85 and weighs 130 kilos, but size has always been a relative thing), hung three rivals and knocked down the quarterback of Cincinnati unilaterally ending the game. He did not win the MVP because the brilli brilli that accompanies attacking players reinforced Kupp’s candidacy, not unreasonable, but he was the best player on the field. As usual.

And there ended a Super Bowl that in the second part became a duel with clubbing, but until then it had been the glamorous showtime that Los Angeles demands, where people do not go to the stadiums to watch sports but to be seen. . Between touchdown and touchdown and with one of the best receptions of the year (glory to Jamarr Chase ) as the icing on the cake, the camera enjoyed focusing on the stands. LeBron James overacted, Jennifer López and Ben Affleck demonstrating that the talent for dancing is shared in all couples through communicating vessels, Kanye Westasking for urgent help with their heads in a black bag… All embarked on a futile search for a home doomed to failure because the world looked at the only one who did not seek attention: Charlize Theron . The class is that.

Of course, it was impossible for the halftime show to disappoint in such a city. Although the best thing was that those of us from the rock generation confirmed that hip hop legends are going to age just as regularly as ours. As much as he tries to hide it, Dr. Dre seems what he is: the businessman who takes 200 bucks from you for a pair of headphones. If it’s by tonnage, 50 Cent should start being called 1 Dollar. Mary J. Blige is not Tina Turner. Eminem has become your partner who wears his teenage son’s clothes to work Christmas dinner, albeit in defiance of the NFL by taking a knee in tribute to Kaepernick , even though he had been banned, and sang Lose Yourself, for me you can go dressed as a lizard. Snoop Dogg has the advantage that at 20 he already seemed on the verge of death. But Kendrick Lamar is a god and he will still be in three decades. So all good. Very good, even.

But when the stage was dismantled, the party was over. The second part was old football , defenses, resistance, crashes, value and two individuals that decided everything. The dwarf Donald and the forgotten Kupp . Often sports is very simple: the best win. And this time, despite the beauty of Cinicinatti’s history, it was the Rams .