Los Angeles was home to a Super Bowl winner to complete the 1983 season as the Los Angeles Raiders beat the Washington Redskins, 38-16, in Super Bowl XVIII. The Rams have also won a Super Bowl, they did that while playing out of St. Louis and winning Super Bowl XXXIV to complete the 1999 season.
So Los Angeles and the Rams have won two Super Bowls, but the Los Angeles Rams have not won any.
They look to change that this month when they meet the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI.
The Bengals are also looking for their first Super Bowl win, having lost their prior two appearances to the San Francisco 49ers to complete the 1981 and 1988 seasons. The 1981 loss to the 49ers marked San Francisco’s first of five franchise Super Bowl titles. The 1988 season Super Bowl was best remembered by the touchdown drive engineered by Joe Montana that provided a 20-16 victory margin for the heavily favored 49ers.
Back to Los Angeles. The city hosted the first Super Bowl, a game played before the series had even adopted the title “Super Bowl.” In 1967, it was simply known as the AFL/NFL World Championship Game.
The first Super Bowl wasn’t sold out, but a number of highly recognizable celebrities were on the sidelines and scattered throughout the stadium. The coverage in Los Angeles focused on the action off the field more than the play-by-play activities on the field. Interviews with Kirk Douglas and Bert Lancaster were of a lot more interest to the Southern California crowd than Max Magee catching a pass.