The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs grew to become NFL champions for the second time in 4 years after preventing again to say an exciting 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chiefs trailed for a lot of Tremendous Bowl 57 in Phoenix and have been 27-21 down heading into the ultimate quarter.
However regardless of limping after aggravating an ankle harm, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and veteran coach Andy Reid orchestrated a route again in entrance of 67,827.
Mahomes, who was named the season’s Most Precious Participant for a second time final week, made landing passes to Kadarius Toney and Skyy Moore to place Kansas Metropolis in entrance for the primary time.
The Eagles levelled after a 3rd dashing landing by Jalen Hurts, adopted by a two-point conversion by the third-year quarterback.
However a heroic 26-yard run by Mahomes made the bottom for Harrison Butker to kick a game-winning discipline aim from 27 yards.
Mahomes’ efficiency noticed the 27-year-old change into the primary participant since 1999 to win the season MVP, the Tremendous Bowl and the Tremendous Bowl MVP in the identical season.
He has led the Chiefs to no less than the AFC Championship recreation in all 5 seasons as a starter and lots of argued that, for the Reid-Mahomes period to be thought-about a dynasty, they needed to win one other Tremendous Bowl.
“I’m not going to say a dynasty but, we’re not executed,” warned Mahomes.
“I informed you nothing was going to maintain me off the sector. I wish to thank my team-mates – we challenged one another and it took everyone.”
Reid stated of Mahomes: “He desires to be the best participant ever and that is the way in which he goes about his enterprise. And he does it humbly, there is not any bragging.
“The nice quarterbacks make everyone round him higher, together with the pinnacle coach. So he is executed a heck of a job.”
Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce added: “I’ve received Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes, I’ve an incredible workforce, we had an unbelievable run.
“We have been uncharacteristic to start with [of the game] however everybody had that look of their eye that they would depart all of it on the market on the sector and that’s what we did.”
A historic and uncommon Tremendous Bowl
It was each a historic and uncommon Tremendous Bowl because the NFL’s showcase occasion got here to Arizona’s state capital for a fourth time.
It was the first Tremendous Bowl to function two black quarterbacks and the primary to function brothers on opposing groups, specifically Travis Kelce and his older brother Jason, the Eagles centre.
And it was uncommon as a result of it featured the season’s finest two groups and the very best two gamers – Mahomes and Hurts.
It was the primary time that the highest seed in every Convention has reached the Tremendous Bowl since 2018 – when the Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41-33 for his or her solely earlier Tremendous Bowl win.
That is the highest-scoring Tremendous Bowl since then however most likely edged it for drama, with every workforce displaying why they have been so dominant through the common season, each ending with a 14-3 document.
Now Tremendous Bowl 57 can be remembered for being way more than the ‘Kelce Bowl’, with the 2 groups producing an epic in Arizona’s state capital.
Mahomes and Hurts commerce blows in epic
It promised to be a shootout from the primary quarter, as neither defence managed to cease their opposition doing the identical as they’ve been doing all season.
Hurts already had the single-season document for dashing touchdowns by a quarterback and three extra on Sunday prolonged it to 18.
The primary capped the sport’s opening drive, and the Chiefs replied with Mahomes discovering Travis Kelce within the nook for the tight finish’s career-best sixteenth landing of the season.
Nevertheless, there have been ominous indicators for Kansas Metropolis within the second quarter, regardless of cancelling out Hurts’ 45-yard landing move to AJ Brown as Nick Bolton returned fumble for a defensive landing.
The Eagles starved the Chiefs of possession, Mahomes started limping closely, Hurts punched in his second landing and Jake Elliott kicked a discipline aim to make it 24-14 at half-time.
No matter coach Reid, 64, stated to his gamers throughout Rihanna’s half-time present appeared to do the trick as Kansas Metropolis got here out and put collectively a 10-play drive capped by a Isiah Pacheco rating.
They usually thought they’d snatched the lead moments later with one other defensive landing by Bolton, just for the play to be reversed and Jake Elliott to make it 27-21 with a discipline aim.
However two touchdowns in fast succession, each from well-designed passing performs from the Reid playbook that flummoxed the Philly defence, swung the sport in Kansas Metropolis’s favour.
Hurts stored the Eagles in it however Mahomes’ scramble up the center allowed the Chiefs to handle the clock earlier than making the decisive rating with simply eight seconds left.
The most effective Tremendous Bowl stats
- Reid grew to become the fifteenth coach to win a number of Tremendous Bowls
- Mahomes grew to become the thirteenth quarterback to win a number of Tremendous Bowls
- Hurts grew to become the primary quarterback to hurry for 3 touchdowns in a Tremendous Bowl
- Hurts additionally set a Tremendous Bowl document for dashing yards by a QB – 70
- Going through the workforce with the second most sacks in a single season in NFL historical past, the Chiefs’ offensive line did not enable Mahomes to be sacked as soon as
