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It is the night of the absolute consecration of Patrick Mahomes: at age 27, the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs took his second NFL title by defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35
and was voted as Super Bowl MVPexactly as happened in the very final won by comeback in 2020.

The Texas native boy was stronger than everything, including the pain: it looked like a Super Bowl loss at halftime, with the Eagles ahead 24-14 and Mahomes who on a tackle by TJ Edwards was again twisted right anklethe one already injured in the Divisionals and which had given him new problems in the Championships. Mahomes returned to the bench with a visibly limphe yelled taking off his helmet when the doctors started treating his ankle, then the necessary treatments arrived in the interval and he played like a champion in the second half: he led the Kansas City offense in perfection scoring on every drivefeeding Kadarius Toney and Skyy Moore for passing scores, before the final drive gave the Chiefs a victory on Harrison Butker’s field goal.

MVPs hadn’t won the Super Bowl in 24 years

Mahomes also beats the stats: a player named NFL MVP of the season hasn’t won a Super Bowl since 1999

(Kurt Warner with the Rams) and in the meantime nine of them had tried, including Tom Brady, failing the final appointment. A streak that Mahomes interrupted, with a perfect playoff despite his aches and pains: In three games, 72 of 100 completions, 703 yards passing, 7 touchdown passes, and 0 interceptions. All with his right ankle always in half serve, or even less, given that generally the sprain he was diagnosed with (remedied three weeks ago against the Jaguars) would require a month’s stop. “Mahomes played a splendid game,” Chiefs owner Clark Hunt smiled at the end of the match. Coach Andy Reid, in turn in the second triumph as head coach of the Chiefs at 64, celebrates “the tremendous work of Mahomes and of the line of attack», who protected his quarterback to perfection throughout the evening, especially after the flare up of the ankle problem, not even allowing a sack to a defense specialist in this statistic like Philadelphia. «Mahomes is the MVP – smiles Reid – that’s all
it must be said, right? mvp”. And indeed he was crowned as such. At the end of the race Mahomes celebrated on the court with wife Brittany and daughter Sterling Skye (the other son, Patrick Lavon III, is only two and a half months old), as well as dad Pat. But first the hug with Travis Kelce, his favorite target and author of the first Chiefs touchdown of the evening. «We wanted to win – Mahomes said at the end of the match, raising the Mvp trophy – and we proved it in the most difficult moment. I said nothing would keep me away from the pitch and it did: I thank my team-mates, we all pushed hard to win this title. Are we a dynasty? I wouldn’t use that term yet: we haven’t finished our work yet. Said with the smile of someone who hasn’t yet quenched his hunger for success».

Pitcher dad and star contract

The Chiefs quarterback was born on September 17, 1995 to mom Randi and dad Pat, himself a professional sportsman: he played baseball as a pitcher in the major leagues, first with the Minnesota Twins, then with the Boston Red Sox, the New York Mets and the Texas Rangers before the career finale between Chicago and Pittsburgh. From the baseball to the football, immediately preferred by little Patrick Lavon: Texas Tech college record numbers and in 2017 Mahomes was drafted by the Chiefs in the first round with the tenth pick overall (second qb of that draft: before him was chosen by Chicago Mitch Trubisky, so far semi-disastrous in his NFL career). After the first year behind Alex Smith, Mahomes is promoted to starter by the Chiefs and his domination begins: he is mvp of the NFL in 2018 (the youngest since Dan Marino) and came close to the Super Bowl, the following year he landed for the first time at the grand ball and at 24 he became the youngest Super Bowl MVP by beating the San Francisco 49ers 31-20.
In 2020 another Super Bowl, lost against His Majesty Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, then last season’s Championship loss against the Cincinnati Bengals and this year a new triumph. Successes that prove the Missouri franchise right, which in June 2020 made Mahomes sign one of the most lucrative contracts in the history of sport: a ten-year contract worth 503 million dollars in total. Considering the club’s economic commitment on a single contract, only the four-year contract that Messi signed with Barcelona in 2017 and the last contract signed by Cristiano Ronaldo with Al-Nassr recorded a higher overall value than the agreement between Mahomes and the Chiefs.

Fireworks against Hurts

However, it was a night of fireworks on offense: with 73 points overall, it was the third highest scoring Super Bowl in history, narrowly preceded by the 75 points of the 1995 edition (San Francisco 49ers- San Diego Chargers 49-26) and by the 74 of the 2018 edition in which Philadelphia beat Brady’s New England 41-33. The credit also goes to Mahomes’ neighbor, Jalen Hurts, who did everything to win his first NFL ring: the quarterback The 24-year-old from the Eagles played an amazing gamewith only one mistake (heavy, the fumble which caused the Chiefs all-14) and a string of impressive rushing-related records, as well as 304 passing yards. In one night Hurts set the record for a quarterback in Super Bowl history rushing attempts (15), rushing yards (70) and rushing touchdowns, no less than three. In fact, the three rushing touchdowns in a Super Bowl were managed by only one other player in NFL history, runningback Terrell Davis in the 1998 Super Bowl. When Hurts scored the third and personally converted it from two points for the 35-all, it looked like momentum could pass to the Eagles and it was Hurts’ big night, man of the match by gap. But Mahomes led another phenomenal drivewith the icing of a personal 26-yard run (and many greetings to the sore ankle), arrived with perfect management of the clock to Butker’s winning field goal that placed the Chiefs on the NFL throne — their third NFL champion title in the their story — and their quarterback, increasingly star in the league.