NEW ORLEANS.- In one of the most shocking victories that are remembered in the NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles overwhelmed this Sunday 40-22 in the Super Bowl to the Kansas City Chiefs, who pursued in New Orleans a third consecutive title, something never achieved by any team.
The ‘Quarterback’ Patrick Mahomes, who aspired to match the four crowns of the mythical Joe Montana, offered the most erratic version of his career against the powerful defense of the Eagles, who took a sweet rematch of the defeat of 2023 in the final of the American Football League.
The Chiefs debacle, which came to lose for 34-0, is a hard blow to the dynasty led by Mohamses and Travis Kelce, which was again encouraged from the stands of Caesars Superdome by its partner, the superstar of pop Taylor Swift .
The Chiefs stay with a four -titles record, three of them with Mahomes and Kelce in front, while the Eagles celebrated their second triumph after 2018 on a night of Revancha of Jalen Hurts.
The ‘quartback’ of the Eagles, which could not avoid the defeat in 2023 despite a heroic performance, finally surpassed Mohamses adding 221 yards and two pass touchdowns and another career score.
“I was able to use that experience and learn from it, the good and the bad,” said Hurts, who stressed that “the defense wins championships.”
Among the multitude of luxury guests Donald Trump, the first US president in exercise that attended a Super Bowl and to which most spectators applauded when focused on giant screens stood out.
The Republican president, who has maintained a tense relationship with the NFL, had a meeting with relatives of the victims of the January 1 attack in New Orleans, where 14 people died in a massive outrage during the New Year celebration.
“I thought it would be good for the country that the president was in the game,” Trump said about the visit in an interview with Fox in which he gave the Chiefs as favorites.
Swift boos
In a pronounced contrast with Trump, the public whistled ostensibly when Taylor Swift appeared sitting in the stands next to the Ice Spice rapper.
Swift publicly supported Democrat Kamala Harris in front of Trump in the November and the president, in turn, has expressed his animosity towards the singer.
The great show of American sport was not lost to Lionel Messi who, less than 24 hours after a friendly with Inter Miami in Honduras, enjoyed in the gallery with his companions Luis Suárez, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets.
The traditional intermediate concert was in charge of rapper Kendrick Lamar, who not only had the announced collaboration of singer SZA but also of the legendary tennis player Serena Williams, who wore dance steps on stage.
And in another unexpected appearance, Lady Gaga acted before the game in the popular Bourbon Street in New Orleans, in a musical tribute to the victims of recent tragedies in the United States.
Historic collapse
Even with all the attractions external to the grid, the biggest surprise of the Super Bowl was the collapse of the Chiefs, the fierce dominators of the NFL in this decade.
The game was soon in the face for the Eagles when Hurts, after a precise 27 -y -yard pass to Jahan Dotson, he took care of the first TouchDown of a yard.
On the other side, Kelce escaped several mahomes passes from the frustration in the Swift stands.
All alarms jumped in the experienced Andy Reid after a Jake Elliott field goal and a catastrophic ‘drive’ of Mohamses.
The ‘Quarterback’ received two consecutive plates and made a colossal error in an attempt to pass intercepted by the rookie Cooper Dejan, which flew 38 yards for TouchDown.
The nightmare was aggravated two minutes from the break with another devastating interception to Mohamses only 14 yards from its own annotation zone. Hurts enabled the receiver AJ Brown to make Philadelphia go to the locker room with an amazing 24-0 distance.
In the history of the Super Bowl, only a ‘quartback’ raised a major disadvantage, Tom Brady, present in New Orleans in his debut as an analyst for the Fox chain.
The Eagles did not allow the Chiefs to dream of the feat and Hurts sentenced the victory with a huge 46 yards pass to Devonta Smith to place a 34-0.
In the midst of the desolation of Mahomes and Kelce in the bank, the final stretch only served for the chiefs to make the humiliation with two late TouchDowns of Xavier Worthy and another from Deandre Hopkins.
