Kansas Metropolis beats San Francisco in OT to grow to be 1st repeat Tremendous Bowl champs in 19 years

Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Kansas Metropolis are back-to-back Tremendous Bowl champions.

Mahomes threw a three-yard landing move to Mecole Hardman in additional time, and Kansas Metropolis rallied to beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 on Sunday, changing into the primary repeat Tremendous Bowl champs in 19 years.

With pop star Taylor Swift watching boyfriend Kelce from a set, Kansas Metropolis captured its third title in 5 years and firmly established themselves as a dynasty.

The NFL’s first Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas was a sloppy, mistake-filled affair that was largely boring till the back-and-forth fourth quarter and additional time drama. It was the second of 58 Tremendous Bowls to be tied after regulation, and the primary performed beneath new additional time guidelines that ensured each groups obtained the ball.

Kansas Metropolis trailed 22-19 after Jake Moody kicked a 27-yard discipline aim on the primary possession of additional time, however Mahomes rallied his staff, finishing one other spectacular comeback in a rematch of the Tremendous Bowl 4 years in the past.

Mahomes ran eight yards on fourth-and-one to maintain Kansas Metropolis’s possibilities alive after which scrambled 19 yards to arrange the profitable rating, which got here 14:57 into the additional interval — simply earlier than what would have been the second OT.

“With all of the adversity we have been by this season to come back by tonight. … I am happy with the blokes,” mentioned Mahomes, who was named MVP. “That is superior. Legendary.”

After he related with a wide-open Hardman, Ok.C. ran on the sector as red-and-yellow confetti fell onto the turf.

Essentially the most pleasure within the first half got here when a pissed off Kelce bumped Andy Reid on the sideline, knocking the 65-year-old Kansas Metropolis coach a couple of steps again after teammate Isiah Pacheco fumbled contained in the purple zone in the course of the second quarter.

“You guys noticed that?” Kelce mentioned. “I will preserve it between us until my `mic’d up’ tells the world. I used to be simply telling him how a lot I beloved him.”

The motion picked up after a vital blunder by San Francisco’s particular groups arrange Mahomes’s 16-yard TD move to Marquez Valdes-Scantling for a 13-10 lead.

Mahomes and Reid at the moment are midway to Tom Brady and Invoice Belichick, who gained six championships in 20 years along with the New England Patriots and have been the newest staff to go back-to-back following the 2003-04 seasons.

The 28-year-old Mahomes turns into the fourth beginning QB to win three Tremendous Bowls — becoming a member of Brady, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman — and second-youngest.

Niners large receiver Jauan Jennings threw a TD move and caught one, becoming a member of Eagles quarterback Nick Foles six years in the past as the one gamers to do each within the Tremendous Bowl.

After Moody’s 53-yard discipline aim gave the Niners a 19-16 lead with 1:53 remaining, Mahomes and Kelce went to work. Mahomes related with Kelce for a 22-yard acquire to arrange Harrison Butker’s tying kick, a 29-yarder with three seconds left.

A holding name on Kansas Metropolis’s Trent McDuffie prolonged San Francisco’s opening drive of additional time and Purdy made key throws to drive the 49ers to the Kansas Metropolis nine-yard line. However San Francisco settled for a discipline aim.

Mahomes magic

Purdy, Christian McCaffrey and the Niners jumped forward 10-0, however that is no massive deal for Mahomes and Kansas Metropolis within the Tremendous Bowl. They’ve trailed by 10 factors in all three of their victories, together with final 12 months’s 38-35 win over Philadelphia.

Mahomes wasn’t at his greatest early and threw an interception. However with the sport on the road, he was a magician as soon as once more. He completed 34 of 46 for 333 yards and two TDs.

Kansas Metropolis was hardly dominant in the course of the common season and entered the playoffs because the AFC’s No. 3 seed. They gained at Buffalo and at Baltimore within the post-season — the primary street playoff video games of Mahomes’s profession — and entered the Tremendous Bowl as 2 1/2-point underdogs, in keeping with FanDuel Sportsbook.

The sport turned when San Francisco’s Ray-Ray McCloud could not scoop a punt that hit teammate Darrell Luter Jr.’s leg and Kansas Metropolis recovered on the 49ers 16, resulting in Mahomes’s go-ahead TD move to Valdes-Scantling.

The Niners answered on the subsequent possession with Purdy tossing a 10-yard TD move to Jennings for a 16-13 lead. Moody’s additional level was blocked.

Niners coach Kyle Shanahan gambled on fourth-and-three from the Kansas Metropolis 15, passing up an opportunity for a tying discipline aim. Purdy hit George Kittle for a four-yard acquire after which discovered Jennings for the rating.

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Shanahan resorted to trickery for the one landing within the first half.

Jennings, a large receiver who had by no means thrown a move in an NFL sport, tossed a 21-yard TD to McCaffrey. He was hit as he threw, however McCaffrey snagged the wobbly move throughout the sector and sprinted to the top zone.

There have been loads of stars within the constructing because the NFL introduced its greatest sport to America’s showcase capital. Jay-Z, LeBron James and Paul McCartney have been amongst many celebrities within the crowd.

Publish Malone sang “America the Stunning,” Reba McEntire carried out the nationwide anthem and Usher electrified the gang at halftime. He introduced out plenty of visitors, together with Alicia Keys, H.E.R., Jermaine Dupri, Lil Jon and Ludacris.

Attendance was introduced at 61,629, the smallest crowd in Tremendous Bowl historical past apart from the pandemic sport in Tampa, Fla., three years in the past.