Donald Trump grew to become the primary sitting US president to attend America’s largest sport, whereas Taylor Swift was among the many many celebrities on the Superdome, cheering on her boyfriend Travis Kelce, the Kansas Metropolis tight finish.
But he and the Chiefs had been by no means within the sport. They earned only one first down within the first half and that was on their very first play.
The Eagles opened the scoring on their second possession with Hurts scoring on the ‘tush push’ play which they’ve mastered and no crew has discovered reply to.
Jake Elliott kicked a subject purpose on the Eagles’ subsequent possession earlier than their defence took cost, sacking Mahomes on successive performs and on the following, Cooper DeJean returned an interception for a 38-yard landing.
Mahomes had gone 298 move makes an attempt with out throwing an interception, and he threw one other simply six performs later. It was proper in entrance of his personal finish zone and resulted in a landing for AJ Brown.
The Eagles added one other subject purpose after half-time, earlier than Hurts launched the ball down the center for DeVonta Smith to say a rating becoming for the Tremendous Bowl stage.
No crew has ever been shutout in a Tremendous Bowl, however the Chiefs averted that ignominy with Mahomes throwing landing passes to Xavier Worthy and DeAndre Hopkins both facet of two extra subject targets by Elliott within the fourth quarter.
Mahomes threw an enormous landing move to Worthy on the demise however this proved one sport too far for the Chiefs, who’ve at the very least gone additional than any earlier back-to-back champion in pursuit of a Tremendous Bowl three-peat.
