Patrick Mahomes shook off an ankle damage, turned again right into a magician and pulled out one other comeback on the largest stage to assist the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs win their second Tremendous Bowl in 4 years.
Mahomes threw two landing passes within the fourth quarter and scrambled 26 yards on the go-ahead drive earlier than Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard discipline purpose with 8 seconds left to present the Chiefs a 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night time.
Mahomes and Hurts excelled within the first Tremendous Bowl matchup that includes two Black beginning QBs. However Mahomes, the two-time AP NFL MVP, turned it up within the second half after reaggravating a sprained proper ankle.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid, who couldn’t win the massive recreation in Philadelphia, beat his former crew to earn his second ring with Mahomes and the Chiefs.
With the rating tied at 35-35, the Eagles tried to let the Chiefs rating a landing with below two minutes left so they might get the ball again. However Jerick McKinnon slid on the 2, forcing the Eagles to make use of their final timeout.
After Mahomes took a knee two occasions, Butker nailed his kick, sending 1000’s of red-clad Chiefs followers right into a frenzy.
The Chiefs received their second Tremendous Bowl following the 2019 season, 50 years after the primary one. It took simply three years to get one other Lombardi.
Chiefs followers had been outnumbered within the stadium, however they did their half to silence the boisterous Philly followers with the tomahawk chop chant.
Down 24-14 with a limping Mahomes, the Chiefs adopted up Rihanna’s electrifying halftime efficiency with a sensational offensive outburst.
Mahomes, who suffered a excessive ankle sprain within the divisional spherical, damage it once more on a 3-yard scramble late within the second quarter. He limped off the sphere however confirmed no ailing results on Kansas Metropolis’s subsequent possession.
Mahomes slipped — a number of gamers misplaced their footing on the pure grass floor — within the pocket but by some means regained his steadiness and scrambled 14 yards to the Eagles 4, establishing Isiah Pacheco’s 1-yard TD run that lower the deficit to 24-21.
After Jake Elliott’s 33-yard discipline purpose prolonged Philadelphia’s result in 27-21, the Chiefs struck once more.
Mahomes tossed a 5-yard TD cross to a wide-open Kardarius Toney to present Kansas Metropolis its first lead, 28-27, early within the fourth quarter.
The Chiefs tightened up their protection, forcing Philly to punt. Then Toney returned a line-drive kick 65 yards to the Eagles 5 for the longest punt return in Tremendous Bowl historical past.
On third down from the 4, Mahomes related with Skyy Moore to increase their result in 35-27. Moore additionally was large open on the play.
However the Eagles wouldn’t go away.
Hurts hit DeVonta Smith for a 46-yard achieve to the Chiefs and ran in for his third rating of the sport. He additionally ran in for the 2-point conversion to tie it at 35-35 with 5:15 to go.
As “Fly! Eagles! Fly!” reverberated all through the stadium, Mahomes and the Chiefs went again to work.
The 27-year-old Mahomes grew to become the third participant to win his second NFL MVP award earlier than age 28. He additionally grew to become the youngest QB to start out three Tremendous Bowls. Then, Mahomes grew to become the primary participant to win the Tremendous Bowl the identical season he was MVP after 9 straight gamers misplaced.
Simply 5 years after profitable the primary Tremendous Bowl in franchise historical past, the Eagles got here shut with a brand new coach — Nick Sirianni — and new quarterback — Hurts.
Hurts set a Tremendous Bowl report with 70 yards speeding and tied a report with three speeding scores.
The Eagles marched 75 yards down the sphere with Hurts scoring from the 1 for a 7-0 lead, and managed the ball for nearly 22 minutes within the first half.
Hurts, who missed two video games late within the season with a shoulder damage, had no hassle throwing an ideal deep ball to A.J. Brown, giving the Eagles a 14-7 lead with a 45-yard connection on the primary play of the second quarter.
However Hurts then made a uncommon mistake on the following drive when he fumbled with out being hit whereas scrambling away from stress. Nick Bolton picked it up and raced 36 yards for a rating that made it 14-14. Hurts had simply eight turnovers this season, six picks and two fumbles.
Undeterred, Hurts saved working.
He took off for 14 yards on the primary play after the fumble. On fourth-and-5 from Chiefs 44, Hurts ran 28 yards. He completed off the drive with a 4-yard TD run to place Philadelphia forward 21-14.
Elliott kicked a 35-yard discipline purpose to ship the Eagles into halftime main 24-14.
Mahomes related with Travis Kelce on an 18-yard TD cross in the appropriate nook to tie it at 7-7 within the first quarter. The Chiefs’ All-Professional tight finish and Eagles All-Professional middle Jason Kelce grew to become the primary set of brothers to play towards one another within the Tremendous Bowl.
Their mother, Donna Kelce, wore a half-red, half-green jersey with No. 87 on the entrance for Travis and No. 62 on the again for Jason. She sat in a collection between NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Damar Hamlin.
Eagles followers turned State Farm Stadium right into a sea of inexperienced, chanting “E-A-G-L-E-S!” and singing the crew’s combat track after every rating. However they left upset.
Reid received extra video games than any coach in crew historical past throughout 14 seasons with the Eagles however the one knock towards him was that he couldn’t win the massive one. Reid lastly earned his ring with the Chiefs after they beat San Francisco within the Tremendous Bowl following the 2019 season. They went again the following yr and misplaced to Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The primary Tremendous Bowl involving each No. 1 seeds for the reason that Eagles beat the Patriots in February 2018 lived as much as its hype. It was the third-highest scoring Tremendous Bowl and the Eagles scored probably the most factors by a dropping crew.
Loads of celebrities had been the Eagles followers sporting, together with Bradley Cooper and Kevin Hart, who wore a Reggie White No. 92 jersey.
Paul McCartney and LeBron James additionally had been within the crowd of 67,827.