INGLEWOOD, Calif. — One drive for the ultimate prize. One throw to win it all.
It's what Matthew Stafford craved all those years in Detroit, to prevail in the thickest pressure. And now here he was, as thick as it gets, trailing in the Super Bowl, 79 yards from the end zone, six minutes left. Who knows, maybe those comebacks — large and small — with the Lions prepared him for this. Or maybe he'd been preparing his whole life.
In a final drive for the ages, Stafford pulled off his greatest comeback and delivered an ending perhaps only he could foresee. He fired a 1-yard touchdown pass to Cooper Kupp with 1:25 left, and the Rams held on to beat the Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI Sunday night.
