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Kroenke brought Rams back to L.A.; is Super Bowl win next?

ATLANTA - Too nervous to sit and watch, Stan Kroenke paced the back of the darkened visiting owner's suite at the Superdome in New Orleans as his Los Angeles Rams lined up for the kick that would send them to Super Bowl LIII.

He didn't chat with the 15 or so friends and family members in the box, only exchanging glances with similarly frayed Rams executives. Their dream - an absurd fantasy just two years earlier - was a 57-yard field goal away.

Kroenke saw Greg Zuerlein's kick, but an overhang blocked his view of the flight of the ball though the uprights. His imagination filled in the rest. He knew the Rams had defeated the New Orleans Saints in overtime

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