In Superdome’s silence, Rams take giant step to the Super Bowl

NEW ORLEANS — The silence was deafening. It filled every nook and cranny of the cavernous Mercedes Benz Superdome, a low din bouncing from sideline to sideline and up and down towering bleachers filled with twirling white towels, where tens of thousands here – and millions more elsewhere – held their collective breaths.
Up until that point, before kicker Greg Zuerlein would line up for an improbable 57-yard kick that would send the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl, this vast