The Chiefs will search one other Tremendous Bowl sweep in a title sport rematch in opposition to the Eagles

Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs maintain discovering themselves on one facet of a Tremendous Bowl rematch.

A yr after beating the San Francisco 49ers for the second time in 5 seasons within the NFL’s championship sport, Mahomes and the Chiefs will sq. off in opposition to the Philadelphia Eagles for the second Tremendous Bowl up to now three seasons.

Kansas Metropolis gained the primary assembly 38-35 in Glendale, Arizona, and can attempt to pull off one other Tremendous Bowl sweep on Feb. 9 in New Orleans.

“It is a nice soccer workforce (that) we’re taking part in,” Mahomes mentioned. “They’re nice on offense, they’re nice on protection and particular groups. We performed them in an in depth Tremendous Bowl a pair years in the past, however they’ve added gamers and bought even higher, so it’ll take our greatest soccer to win.”

Greater than 40 gamers who participated in that nail-biter two years in the past are projected to be on the sphere subsequent week together with stars like Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Chris Jones for Kansas Metropolis and Jalen Hurts, Lane Johnson and A.J. Brown for Philadelphia.

Many performed massive roles within the final Tremendous Bowl assembly. Hurts rushed for 3 TDs and threw a 45-yard scoring strike to Brown, whereas Mahomes threw three TD passes, together with one to Kelce, Nick Bolton returned a fumble for a landing and Harrison Butker kicked the game-winning discipline purpose with 8 seconds left.

There have solely been 9 Tremendous Bowl rematches within the earlier 58 video games, with simply 4 occurring in a five-year span earlier than this rematch. The winners of these three rematches had been the groups that gained the primary assembly.

Right here’s a take a look at the opposite instances there was a Tremendous Bowl rematch inside 5 seasons of the primary assembly:

Chiefs vs. 49ers

Mahomes rallied Kansas Metropolis from a 10-point deficit within the fourth quarter for a 31-20 win in Tremendous Bowl 54, together with his largest play being a 44-yard move on third-and-15 to Tyreek Hill that sparked the comeback.

The 49ers stored it even nearer final season in a back-and-forth sport that featured three go-ahead scoring drives led by Brock Purdy within the fourth quarter or additional time. But it surely wasn’t sufficient to topple Mahomes.

Mahomes engineered two late game-tying discipline purpose drives in regulation. He then took benefit of San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan’s resolution to start out additional time with the ball by responding to a discipline purpose by the Niners with a walk-off 3-yard TD move to Mecole Hardman for Kansas Metropolis’s third title on this present run.

Giants vs. Patriots

Eli Manning and the Giants spoiled New England’s bid for an ideal season in 2007 after which pulled off the upset once more 4 years later.

The Patriots got here into Tremendous Bowl 42 with an 18-0 report and had been getting ready to matching the proper season of the 1972 Dolphins when Tom Brady threw a 6-yard TD move to Randy Moss to make it 14-10 with 2:42 to go.

However Manning drove New York down the sphere — with assist from David Tyree’s helmet catch — and threw a game-winning TD to Plaxico Burress to stun New England.

Manning did it once more within the 2011 season, driving to a game-winning landing with 57 seconds left for a 21-17 win.

Cowboys vs. Payments

Dallas and Buffalo had the one Tremendous Bowl rematch in consecutive seasons, assembly on the finish of the 1992 and 1993 campaigns.

The Cowboys bought the most effective of each.

They used 9 takeaways and 4 TD passes from Troy Aikman at hand the Payments a 52-17 loss in Tremendous Bowl 27.

The rematch was nearer however had the identical end result. James Washington returned a fumble for a TD early within the third quarter to tie the sport and Emmitt Smith ran for 2 TDs within the second half for a 30-13 win.

Steelers vs. Cowboys

The Cowboys had been on the fallacious finish of a Tremendous Bowl rematch within the Seventies, shedding to the Steelers following the 1975 and 1978 seasons.

Dallas turned the primary wild-card workforce to achieve the title sport in Tremendous Bowl 10 due to a desperation move to beat Minnesota and a blowout in opposition to the Rams.

However they fell quick in opposition to the Metal Curtain within the second second-half in Tremendous Bowl historical past. Pittsburgh bought a security, two discipline targets and a 64-yard landing catch by Tremendous Bowl MVP Lynn Swann within the fourth quarter of a 21-17 win to finish back-to-back titles for the Steelers.

Pittsburgh gained once more three years later within the first Tremendous Bowl rematch to disclaim Dallas back-to-back championships.

MVP Terry Bradshaw threw 4 TD passes and Jackie Smith dropped a possible landing for Dallas. Roger Staubach’s late rally fell quick and the Steelers gained their third Tremendous Bowl title 35-31.

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