COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Super Bowl will feature a team from Ohio for the first time in 33 years on Sunday, when the Cincinnati Bengals take the field in Los Angeles against the Rams in Super Bowl LVI on NBC4. Joe Burrow and company have a real shot to bring Ohio something that is glaringly absent from the Buckeye State: a Vince Lombardi Trophy. Looking back at every Super Bowl on NBC Ohio has a rich football history, dating to 1920 when the NFL was founded in Canton on Sept. 17. The first NFL dynasty was the Canton Bulldogs, who won the first back-to-back championships in the league’s history, in 1922-23. The Bulldogs even played in the pre-NFL era and featured one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen in Jim Thorpe. Although Canton doesn’t have a football team now, it’s the one place where every NFL…
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