NewsTracker Answers for week of Feb. 07, 2022

Q: When the Los Angeles Rams take the field Sunday to face the Cincinnati Bengals, it will officially be the Super Bowl LVI “road” team at California’s SoFi Stadium, where the Rams and Los Angeles Chargers play their home games in the regular season. Where is California?

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Q: This year is only the second time a football team has qualified to play a Super Bowl in its home stadium. It happened once before in what state which also has hosted the most Super Bowl games?

A. California

B. Florida

C. Louisiana

D. Texas

B. Just last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl on their home field, Raymond James Stadium. Florida has hosted the Superbowl 17 times, compared with 12 times in California,10 times in Louisiana and 4 times in Texas.

Q: How many kilometers will the Bengals travel to become the “home” team at this year’s Super Bowl?

A. About 30

B. About 300

C. About 3,000

D. About 30,000

C. The air travel distance between Cincinnati and Los Angeles is 3,048.94 kilometers, or 1,894.52 miles. This year, the American Football Conference (AFC) team is the Super Bowl “home” team, and next year will be the turn of the National Football Conference (NFC) team.

Q: The Rams of the NFC and Chargers of the AFC share the SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood. Where else do National Football League teams share a stadium?

A. Arizona

B. Florida

C. Massachusetts

D. New Jersey

D. The New York Giants of the NFC and New York Jets of the AFC share the MetlLfe Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is about 5 miles west of New York City.

Q: Where else have the Rams played?

A. Anaheim, California

B. Cleveland, Ohio

C. St. Louis, Missouri

D. All of the above

D. The franchise began as the Cleveland Rams in 1936 and moved to Los Angeles in 1946. In 1980, they moved 26 miles to Anaheim in Orange County before leaving Southern California for St. Louis in 1995. The Rams returned to California in 2016. The Rams is the only team to win NFL Championships representing three different cities (Cleveland in 1945, Los Angeles in 1951 and St. Louis in 1999).