The Cincinnati Bengals have won the coin toss and have deferred to put the Los Angeles Rams on offence to start Super Bowl 56.
It just may not be the omen Bengals’ fans want.
The last seven coin-toss winners wound up losing the Super Bowl. The last team to win the coin toss and the Super Bowl? Seattle beat Denver in 2014.
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford called tails with Los Angeles technically the visiting team. The coin tossed by Billie Jean King came up heads.
Super Bowl coin toss.pic.twitter.com/6ZbJhqZyyV
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) February 13, 2022
King was on hand for the coin toss as the NFL recognized the 50-year anniversary of Title IX enacted in 1972 as part of the Education Amendments providing equal funding for men and women for the first time at high schools, colleges and universities receiving federal funding.
She was joined by the team captains for the California School for the Deaf Riverside Cubs, members of the high school girls flag league of champions and girls youth tackle football players from the Inglewood Chargers and Watts Rams.
King tweeted out video of her practicing the coin toss before kickoff. King wrote “Pressure is a privilege” and she noted the tip to bend her knees actually helped a lot.
Pressure is a privilege. #SuperBowlLVI #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/g5Pu9NVEbC
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) February 13, 2022
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