Speaking of compelling Super Bowl LVI angles, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford finds himself in the big game just one year after he asked the Detroit Lions, who won their last NFL championship nine years before there even was a Super Bowl, to trade him.
As he pointed out Monday, though, “Just because I came here doesn’t mean we were going to get to this point.”
For one, several teams were interested in obtaining Stafford, who had thrown for more than 45,000 yards and 282 touchdowns in 12 tough seasons in Detroit – but had not won a playoff game because his teammates not nicknamed “Megatron” were not so good. (“Megatron” would be Calvin Johnson, the Hall of Fame wide receiver.)
