Donald Trump turned 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 have 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 staff has discovered reply to.
Jake Elliott kicked a discipline objective on the Eagles’ subsequent possession earlier than their defence took cost, sacking Mahomes on successive performs and on the subsequent, Cooper DeJean returned an interception for a 38-yard landing.
Mahomes had gone 298 cross 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 discipline objective 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 staff has ever been shutout in a Tremendous Bowl, however the Chiefs prevented that ignominy with Mahomes throwing landing passes to Xavier Worthy and DeAndre Hopkins both aspect of two extra discipline targets by Elliott within the fourth quarter.
Mahomes threw an enormous landing cross to Worthy on the demise however this proved one sport too far for the Chiefs, who’ve no less than gone additional than any earlier back-to-back champion in pursuit of a Tremendous Bowl three-peat.
“Credit score to the Eagles they performed higher than us from begin to end,” mentioned Mahomes.
“Clearly the turnovers harm – I’ve simply obtained to take all of the blame for that. These early turnovers swing the momentum of the sport and so they capitalised on them.
“It was form of 14 factors that I gave them and it is laborious to return again from that on the Tremendous Bowl.
“I simply did not play to my commonplace and I’ve to be higher subsequent time.”
