Kansas City Chief wins the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles ko- Corriere.it

Kansas City Chiefs won the 57th Super Bowl in Arizona against the Philadelphia Eagles 38 to 35 after an exciting and very tight game, with a tie broken only 11 seconds from the end by a long-range set piece. For the Chiefs, who had also won the Conference AFC final in the Cesarini area always with a free kick, this is the third Super Bowl in four years and the third success after that of 2020. Coach Andy Reid triumphed against Philadelphia, the city where he built his sports career in this sport. And the team the first lady and Joe Biden were rooting for (not as everyone’s president but as Jill’s husband, she tweeted). The president didn’t even have the consolation of the pre-game interview with Fox, which in the end closed the door on him, perhaps not to give him an audience of tens of millions of viewers and favor him in his awaited re-nomination for the White House.

The historic first challenge between African quarterbacks, a role long reserved for white players, went to Patrick Mahomes, considered the heir of the recently retired Tom Brady and nominated for the second time best player of the season (MVP). Mahomes was in his third Super Bowl in four years and now the first African-American quarterback to win twice. His rival Jalen Hurts broke the Super Bowl record for the number of yards rushing by a player with his position: 65, against 64 by Steve McNair, who held the record for 23 years. The Eagles, thanks to a phenomenal Hurts, immediately took the lead and, barring a momentary draw in the middle of the first half, led the game up to the third half (27 to 21), after closing before the break on 24 to 14.

Then Mahomes took the chair, despite a previous knee contusion from a tackle: with two perfect throws for an unmarked Toney he first propitiated the overtaking (28 to 27) and then the draw (35 to 27). The Eagles equalized 4′ from the end and the Chiefs won in the final seconds.

Half-time queen Rihanna, who invaded the Super Bowl with an explosive performance at the end of which her representatives confirmed her evident second pregnancy to the media. Back on stage after seven years and dressed in a red-on-red Loewe jumpsuit with Alaia duvet and Pieter Mulier gloves, the superstar sang a mix of her hits in 13 minutes (Diamonds, Umbrella, Rude boy, Only Girl In the World , We found love, Work, Bitch Better Have My Money, but also All of the Lights by Kanye West and Wild Thoughts by DJ Khaled). The scenography is impressive, with a mobile stage that rises and falls like those of the army of dancers that surrounded it, all in white and hooded with dark sunglasses. For her, applause and ovations amidst fireworks, for an event – by far the most watched in the country – which kept over 100 million Americans glued to the TV, including VIPs, million-dollar commercials with sports and entertainment personalities, and bets mind-boggling sports