Super Bowl LVI: Los Angeles Rams vs Cincinnati Bengals, Matthew Stafford vs Joe Burrow, the game-breakers and the ones who can stop them

It's time for the crowning moment in any NFL season, the Super Bowl, and following an NFL play-off series filled with big upsets, we are left with a match-up that few expected.

In Super Bowl LVI, we have the Los Angeles Rams, the often amazing but sometimes inconsistent team from the NFC West who have made their second Super Bowl in four years, and from the AFC North division, the Cincinnati Bengals who are back in the big game for the first time in more than three decades. 

In any Super Bowl, it's natural to focus on the quarterbacks and this year is no exception, starting by looking at who hasn't made the decider.

The retirement of Tom Brady, after the play-off exit of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the drama around the future of league MVP Aaron Rodgers at the Green Bay Packers and the shock loss of Patrick Mahomes's Kansas City Chiefs all robbed the Super Bowl of a few big storylines.

But we are left with an intriguing match-up, of a rising star in the Bengals' Joe Burrow and a veteran quarterback in the Rams' Matthew Stafford — who for different reasons would not have even been mentioned as the QB pair for this game before the last 12 months.

The NFL draft is designed to even things out and avoid teams of generational failure.

As with Australia's AFL, the team with the least wins in the NFL gets the first pick of the entire American college football talent pool, allowing teams to draft for need with the best at their position.

There is, however, a limit to how much you can even things out. Since 1970, 26 quarterbacks have been taken with the number one pick in the draft. Of those, just eight have gone on to win a Super Bowl.

But now, with Burrow facing Stafford, we are guaranteed to have a ninth winner when the clock runs out on