LOS ANGELES – Governor Mike DeWine and California Governor Gavin Newsom have placed a friendly wager ahead of Super Bowl LVI, pitting the Cincinnati Bengals against the Los Angeles Rams.
DeWine bet an assortment of Cincinnati food products including steaks and seasoning from Jeff Ruby’s, ribs from the Montgomery Inn, goetta and bratwurst from Queen City Sausage, Grippo’s potato chips, chocolates from Maverick Chocolate Company, and is throwing in First Lady Fran DeWine’s Bengals Buckeye Brownies.
His California counterpart has wagered “some of California’s world class agricultural offerings” in the event of a Bengals win.
Burrow, Chase take post-season awards
The NFL handed out its post-season honors Thursday night and a couple of Bengals went home with some hardware.
Quarterback Joe Burrow was named the league’s Comeback Player of the Year after recovering from a season-ending knee injury in 2020 to lead his team to the Super Bowl the following year.
Receiver Ja’Marr Chase was named Offensive Rookie Of The Year.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the MVP for the fourth time in his career.
Hot ticket: Super Bowl could set heat record
It was 87 degrees when the Cincinnati Bengals held the first of their three Super Bowl practices on Wednesday.
The team traded an ice storm and frigid conditions back home for clear skies and warnings about dangerous heat in Los Angeles.
After a 35-minute walkthrough at Drake Stadium on the campus of UCLA, then lunch, the Bengals held a non-padded workout.
Super Bowl LVI could be hottest Super Bowl ever.
The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for Los Angeles County through Sunday night, predicting temperatures that will reach 88 degrees through the end of the week, creating the potential of heat-related illness.
The hottest Super Bowl on record occurred on Jan. 14, 1973 – also in Los Angeles — with a temperature of 84 degrees.
Uzomah on the mend
Tight end C.J. Uzomah, recovering from a knee injury sustained in the first half of the AFC championship win in Kansas City, participated in the team stretching, then headed to the far end of the field to work with an athletic trainer. He was listed as a non-participant.
Coach Zac Taylor says Uzomah likely will work at practice Thursday with the team taking advantage of having three days of work left to see where the veteran is.
Uzomah played only nine snaps in the AFC championship game before hurting his knee.
He caught 49 passes for 493 yards and five touchdowns in the best season of his career, and he has 13 catches for 135 yards this postseason.