LAS VEGAS: The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in time beyond regulation in a Super Bowl not like some other. Here’s a have a look at a number of subjects that can linger within the aftermath:
This Super Bowl will seemingly go down as one of the memorable, given Taylor Swift’s involvement and the truth that it was in Las Vegas for the primary time. Throw in Kansas City successful again-to-again titles — a uncommon accomplishment — and Patrick Mahomes’ late brilliance, and it was a traditional.
But it wasn’t essentially the most effectively-performed recreation, with each groups dropping huge turnovers and neither offense actually doing a lot till the top, when fatigue may need been an element.
It’s in play now for the Chiefs, who’ve reached 4 Super Bowls in 5 years and gained three of them. Now they’ll go for one thing no person — not Joe Montana’s 49ers or Tom Brady’s Patriots — has finished. Kansas City can win a 3rd consecutive Super Bowl.
That may appear unlikely, however so did this championship for a lot of the season. The Chiefs went the entire second half of the AFC championship recreation and the entire first half of the Super Bowl with no landing. If they might handle to win all of it anyway, what does it take to beat them?
“Battling through the adversity that we went through this year, and the guys staying with the process, keeping believing,” Mahomes stated. “You never know how it’s going to happen, and to be able to go play three great teams to get to this game and play another great team, and win all those games, it was a true road in the playoffs, and we were able to come through and be Super Bowl champs.”
Mahomes has some time to go earlier than he can match Tom Brady’s longevity and profession accomplishments, however he could have an excellent higher resume than the New England quarterback did on the identical age. Mahomes has three Super Bowl titles at age 28 and was the MVP in every of these wins. When he was 28, Brady had gained three Super Bowls and been MVP for 2.
But at that age, Brady hadn’t gained any common-season MVPs, and Mahomes already has two.
Taylor Swift’s fiercest loyalists would possibly declare that she was the great luck appeal that introduced Kansas City one other championship. Even in case you’re not shopping for that, there’s no denying that her relationship with Travis Kelce added some buzz to what was a reasonably drab common season for the Chiefs.
Then they went on their postseason run, culminating in an nearly excellent storm of sports activities and popular culture intersecting on the Super Bowl. Maybe Kelce and Swift shall be again on the Super Bowl subsequent 12 months, too, however the NFL and Chiefs followers shouldn’t take with no consideration the sequence of occasions that unfolded over the previous few months.
Now we’re undoubtedly within the realm of the subjective, however the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas was a success amongst many followers — a few of whom got here to city even when they weren’t positive they’d have the ability to get into the sport.
The demand for tickets made it clear how fashionable a website this was. And as sports activities leagues embrace Las Vegas increasingly more, it’s a query of when, not if, extra occasions like this come to city.
The 49ers had been about as near a championship as you could be with out successful it, and coach Kyle Shanahan continues to be chasing a title after dropping one other Super Bowl. He’s been on the fallacious finish of the one two Super Bowls to go to time beyond regulation — this one and Super Bowl 51, which he misplaced as an offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons.
Shanahan is among the recreation’s most influential offensive minds, however this wasn’t one in all his masterpieces. The 49ers bought 160 complete yards from Christian McCaffrey, however two touchdowns and three subject objectives weren’t sufficient for San Francisco to win. And Shanahan’s resolution to take the ball first in time beyond regulation raised some eyebrows.
Meanwhile, Kansas City’s Andy Reid gained his third Super Bowl title.
What a profession defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has put collectively. When he was with the 2007 New York Giants, he helped take down beforehand unbeaten New England within the Super Bowl. Now he’s gained three titles with the Chiefs.
With Mahomes and the offense now not lighting up opposing secondaries like prior to now, the strain was on Spagnuolo’s protection. It delivered, holding Lamar Jackson and Baltimore to 10 factors within the AFC championship recreation after which maintaining Kansas City in it in opposition to the 49ers till the offense bought rolling late.
There was discuss whether or not Usher’s halftime present is perhaps overshadowed by Swift’s presence within the crowd, however he delivered a set with a number of highlights, together with appearances by Alicia Keys, H.E.R., Jermaine Dupri, Lil Jon and Ludacris.
MVP Lamar Jackson could have taken house the most important prize at NFL Honors this week, however the Houston Texans appear like a group to observe going ahead. They swept the Rookie of the Year awards for offense and protection with quarterback C.J. Stroud and defensive lineman Will Anderson Jr.
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