Kansas City Chiefs win the Super Bowl! Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and Co seal back-to-back titles with Taylor Swift watching on in Las Vegas… after dramatic overtime game ends with Mecole Hardman touchdown and a 25-22 win over 49ers
Not once had the masked slipped an inch. Not once had he lost patience or any of his easy charm. Travis Kelce’s opening words this week were about Taylor Swift as he answered the first of countless questions about the relationship which dominated the build-up to this first Super Bowl in Sin City.
On Saturday night, his final message to his Kansas City Chiefs teammates was so inspiring it moved some people to tears. And then, on the biggest stage of all, in perhaps the biggest Super Bowl of all, it was Kelce’s turn to break down.
There was no blubbing but Swift was in the stands and, for once, she was in the shade, too. Shortly before half-time in Las Vegas, with his team trailing the San Francisco 49ers, Kelce screamed in the face of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. He nearly knocked the 65-year-old off his feet and had to be hauled away.
It was shocking and it threatened to become the defining image of a night when Kansas City unraveled and spurned a chance to make history. Instead, as night closed over Sin City, Kelce was grasping the Vince Lombardi Trophy, shouting three less vulgar words: Viva Las Vegas.
Because this is a special team. Built on the backs of a ferocious defense. And led by a peerless quarterback – one blessed with immense talent but, more important still, a refusal to yield even when nothing is working. When the chips are down, Kansas City looks to Patrick Mahomes. He doesn’t let them down.
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Patrick Mahomes found Mecole Hardman open for a touchdown in OT to win a third Super Bowl in five seasons for the Chiefs
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Taylor Swift and her friends celebrated alongside Donna Kelce and the rest of the Kelce family at Allegiant Stadium
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Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid celebrates after winning his third Super Bowl with the team
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Patrick Mahomes and Mecole Hardman celebrated with the other members of the Chiefs in the end zone after the touchdown
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Mahomes finished the night with 333 yards, two touchdowns and one interception in a strong performance
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That’s left the San Francisco 49ers on the short end of the stick having lost two straight Super Bowls – both to Kansas City
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After a very slow start to the game, Travis Kelce finished with the most catches and led the team with 93 catching yards
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Amid the crowd of people, Mahomes and Kelce found each other and celebrated with a hug on the field
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Kansas City head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes hold aloft the Lombardi Trophy
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As the ceremony began, Taylor Swift made her way down onto the field and watched as confetti rained down on her
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She eventually found her man and in a tender moment, they embraced and kissed as Travis earned his third Super Bowl ring
Not even when his offense malfunctions – as it did again on Sunday. Not even after San Francisco threatened to strangle the Chiefs in Sin City. Not even after four hours of battle. More than once, the quarterback had hauled his team back from the brink of defeat. And then in overtime, at the end of a titanic tussle, he orchestrated a phenomenal final drive and found Mecole Hardman to write another slice of history.
Moments later, emotion got the better of Mahomes too – the quarterback set off on a run to nowhere in particular before dropping his helmet and tumbling to the floor. He lay on his back and he was mobbed. Mahomes had just led the Chiefs to a third Super Bowl in five years their second in successive seasons. No team had gone back-to-back in two decades. This is a dynasty, be in no doubt.
To think these Chiefs were written off after a regular season of struggle and distraction. All year, the defense stopped the foundations from coming undone and on Sunday the defense provided a platfom for Mahomes to claw Kansas City to victory. What a remarkable end to a remarkable season, decided once again by a truly remarkable player. Mahomes is now one of only three quarterbacks to have won three championships in his first seven seasons. Reid is now one of only five coaches to win three or more Super Bowls. Not even a bump from Kelce could knock him off course.
But how this will hurt for San Francisco. Not for the first time in a Super Bowl against this team and this quarterback, they had glory in their grasp. Not for the first time, they led until Mahomes delivered late heartbreak. Their 20-year wait for a title goes on. This one will take some getting over.
There was no happy ending to the Brock Purdy fairytale. Christian McCaffrey’s tireless running went unrewarded. Jauan Jennings made one touchdown and scored another but still ended up on the losing side. As both a coordinator and a head coach, Kyle Shanahan has now let three double-digit leads slip in three Super Bowls. Is there a worse place to be when digesting a defeat like this than Las Vegas?
Is there a better place to toast a win like this than The Strip? It promises to be a long night for these Chiefs players and their loved ones. Swift had touched down around 1pm local time. Her journey from a stage in Tokyo to a suite in Las Vegas had included a pit stop in Los Angeles and a dig from Donald Trump. Beyond that, though? Pretty painless.
Vegas was prepared to absorb 330,000 new arrivals – one more wouldn’t be an issue. Supporters started piling into town nearly a week ago and they were still checking into hotels a few hours before kick-off. By then, blackjack dealers were decked out in football jerseys and The Strip was at logjam.
It was quicker to get around on foot and so thousands of fans spilled out of the casino at the Mandalay Bay, down on to the underpass, out into the beaming sun and up the hill towards Allegiant Stadium.
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Travis Kelce had a moment of madness as he screamed at his coach Andy Reid in the second quarter of the Super Bowl
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Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift had raced back from Japan for the game but the Chiefs made an underwhelming start
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Jake Moody scored a 55-yard kick to break the deadlock and put the 49ers ahead – then the longest in Super Bowl history
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San Francisco had a trick up their sleeves with a double pass set up leading to WR Jauan Jennings throwing the ball
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He found a wide open Christian McCaffrey – who scampered to the house for a touchdown to take a 10-0 lead
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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker was able to get some points on the board giving us a 10-3 score at halftime
Separating the Chiefs and immortality at kick-off? One more step. Reid, Mahomes, Kelce and Co set out on this long road – destination: Dynasty – in 2019, when they ended a 50-year wait for a second championship. The victims that day? San Francisco.
Shanahan’s players arrived here with vengeance on their mind. They began as slight betting favorites, they had more support in the stands, too. The message from the Chiefs, though, articulated by Chris Jones in a pre-game promo? ‘We ain’t done yet’. Tears streamed down the tackle’s face during the national anthem and then, a few minutes later, the ball fell out of Christian McCaffrey’s hands as Kansas City drew first blood.
Soon, though, San Francisco’s defense laid down some markers of its own – Chase Young sacked Mahomes, Nick Bosa and Co swarmed all over Kansas City -and the pattern of this Super Bowl was set. Two supreme defenses leaving road blocks at nearly every turn.
Across their first two drives, the defending champions were restricted to 16 yards and a solitary first down. San Francisco had more early joy but still needed a Super Bowl record field goal (55 yards) from Jake Moody to open the score in the second quarter.
The Chiefs looked primed to wipe that lead out instantly. Alas, after their offense sparked into life for the first time, Isiah Pacheco dropped the ball. And that proved too much for some: Kelce lost it after being taken out of a game in which the star tight end had managed just one yard and one reception. Swift, meanwhile, soon chugged her beer.
She ought to have raised a glass a few minutes later, Purdy found Jennings, who threw a daring lateral to McCaffrey in space. No one was going to stop him from here.
That score put San Francisco firmly in control but few know better than Shanahan about the fragility of leads in this game. In each of its past three Super Bowl wins – against the Eagles and 49ers (twice) – Kansas City has overturned a 10+ point deficit.
There was little sign of an impending comeback here as the Chiefs’ offense stuttered and Mahomes battled just to keep his head above water. A field goal from Harrison Butker – seconds before half-time – did bring the defending champions within a score before Usher’s 13-minute show gave the Chiefs a bit of extra time to gather themselves.
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Later in the game, Moody’s record was broken by Harrison Butker, who kicked a 57-yard field goal in the third quarter
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The 34-year-old Kelce, one of the star men for the Chiefs, had first looked cool and composed during the warm ups
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (center) gives a late Kansas City team talk with Kelce stood alongside him
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