Lecture : 4 minutes
Kansas City and its quarterback Patrick Mahomes managed a formidable comeback to win the 54th NFL Super Bowl, the second in franchise history, at the expense of San Francisco (31-20), Sunday in Miami during a suspenseful finale.
The Missouri team, which puts an end to fifty years of famine since its first coronation against Minnesota, succeeds New England. Last year, the Tom Brady Patriots won for the sixth time, extending an 18-year dynasty in which they played nine finals. This time, no “Pats” or “Brady” on the bill, no “Super Bore” either contrary to the insipid final of last year, but the Chiefs, whose triumph could open a new era , and whose youthful face with an afro cut is that of Patrick Mahomes.
Aged 24, he is the second youngest quarterback in history to lift the Vince-Lombardi Trophy, after Ben Roethlisberger. He suffered for a long time under the enormous defensive pressure imposed by the 49ers, but he showed enough composure and talent to do what his entire team expected of him: the difference. “Whatever the score, we have Pat Mahomes,” said receiver Travis Kelce. “It’s + magic Mahomes +, it’s + showtime Mahomes +. And you know what ? He had the will to put this team back in the game. ”
His fourth quarter was indeed that of the great champions, under the eyes of legends of this sport like Joe Montana, present at the Hard Rock Stadium, packed with 76,000 spectators and who would surely have preferred to see his 49ers enter the Pantheon of the most titled, at the alongside New England and Green Bay.
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? The Super Bowl for stunning Chiefs!
? 50 years after its first coronation, Kansas City gleans a second with a new comeback!
? A 31-20 win over the 49ers
? Patrick Mahomes elected MVP of the final! pic.twitter.com/qjDnvegRDk— beIN SPORTS (@beinsports_FR) February 3, 2020
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Patrick “clutch” Mahomes
Accusing ten points behind, after three quarters akin to an ordeal, sacked four times, intercepted twice, Mahomes first managed a crucial shot which found Tyreek Hill 44 yards away. He then finished the job perfectly with an offering to Travis Kelce (20-17). The renewed confidence in the Chiefs, who had demonstrated during these play-offs their ability to reverse compromised situations, as in the second round against Houston (51-31 after being led 24-0), resulted in another Mahomes recital, who managed four consecutive passes to go fifty yards and finally find Damien Williams for the touchdown (24-20). The latter then gave the coup de grace by achieving the double in the last minutes of a 38-yard race.
“We have never lost confidence. No one on this team had their heads down and we found a way to win in the end, ”said Mahomes, who himself scored Kansas City’s first touchdown in the first quarter and logically was named Super Bowl MVP. The “QB” opposite Jimmy Garropolo was not unworthy of what was also his first final, he who won two Super Bowls without playing (2015, 2017), watching the shine of the one he was the replacement for in New England, Tom Brady.
Reid finally rewarded
Garropolo, who was not the first offensive threat for the 49ers, unlike running back Raheem Mostert author of a touchdown, was effective in his throws for three quarters since 18 of 22 were completed, including one that allowed Kyle Juszczyk to score the equalizer touchdown (10-10) before the break. But in turn with his back to the wall, he cracked the money-time by being intercepted for the second time in the game, under the eyes of Andy Reid, the mustached Chiefs coach, 61, who understood at the time – where he would no longer be considered the best coach in the NFL to never win a title.
Opposite feeling for the 49ers coach, Kyle Shanahan, decidedly cursed. Three years ago, then offensive coordinator for Atlanta, he thought he had won the Super Bowl by leading 28-3 against New England, before losing after extra time (34-28). A bitter memory he hoped to chase away under the gaze of Mike Shanahan, two-time Super Bowl winner with Denver.
A father and son, sacred coaches, it would have been a first in the NFL. But for her hundredth birthday, she couldn’t dream of better publicity than this thrilling finale.
Especially since under the eyes of 100 million Americans, the halftime show was hot, with Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, between movements of the hips and undulations of the buttocks. While Donald Trump did not know where to head between Kansas and Missouri, confusing the State of origin of the Chiefs in his congratulatory tweet, immediately deleted.
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, author of two throws converted to touchdowns in the last quarter to fill a ten-point deficit, was the hero of the Chiefs.
The franchise of Missouri is sacred after a final breathtaking suspense, 50 years after his first title acquired at the expense of Minnesota.
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