Both the Rams and Seahawks have played in two NFC Championship Games each since 2010 \u2014 and they\u2019re each 2-0. Something will have to give today. But first, let\u2019s recap those four prior games…<\/p>\n
Jan. 2019: The no-call heard around the world<\/p>\n
The 2018 NFC Championship Game was a battle of two of the sport\u2019s best offensive minds in Sean Payton, the longtime Saints coach seeking his second Super Bowl title with Drew Brees, and Sean McVay, the second-year Rams coach who had injected life into both the team and the career of former No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff. The game lived up to the hype, tied 20-20 inside the two-minute warning with the Saints driving into Rams territory. On third-and-10 from L.A.\u2019s 13-yard line, Brees threw one toward slot receiver Tommylee Lewis, only for Lewis to get decked by hard-charging Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman. However, no flag was thrown on what seemed like clear pass interference, enraging Brees, Payton and the many Saints fans inside the Superdome. <\/p>\n
New Orleans settled for a field goal, which the Rams later matched, sending the game into overtime. After the Rams picked off Brees on another controversial play in overtime, Goff led L.A. into field-goal range, and Greg Zuerlein hit a 57-yarder to send the Rams to the Super Bowl for the first time since the 1999 season, when they lost to the Patriots.<\/p>\n
Payton soon received a call from the NFL league office, and Robey-Coleman was later fined for his hit on Lewis, both admissions of guilt from the league that a flag should have been thrown. The NFL even briefly experimented with making pass interference calls reviewable the following season as a result of the play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both the Rams and Seahawks have played in two NFC Championship Games each since 2010 \u2014 and they\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-436858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}