The Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 50 years tonight after coming back from a 20-10 second half deficit against the San Francisco 49ers.
The 31-20 victory came after Patrick Mahomes led Kansas City to three touchdowns in the final 6:13, overcoming a double-digit deficit for the third postseason game in a row to earn the historic victory.
Chiefs coach Andy Reid earned his 222nd career victory, and his first in a Super Bowl.
Mahomes keeps rewriting the NFL history books, and the wait for the Chiefs — and for their head coach — is finally over.
A half century after winning their first, the Kansas City Chiefs are the first team in NFL history to win three games after trailing by 10 or more points in a single postseason.
Mahomes, last year’s league MVP, is now a Super Bowl MVP.
He has joined Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady as the only quarterbacks to hoist a Lombardi Trophy before their 25th birthday.
“We kept believing,” Mahomes said. “That’s what we did all postseason. I felt like if we were down by 10, we weren’t playing our best football. They guys really stepped up. They believed in me. I was making a lot of mistakes out there early. We found a way to win it in the end.”
Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes lifts the Vince Lombardi trophy after the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV
At 24 years and 138 days old on Sunday, Mahomes became the fifth-youngest quarterback to start in the Super Bowl and the second-youngest quarterback to win it (Roethlisberger, at 23, is the youngest).
Mahomes is also now the youngest player to win both an NFL MVP award and a Super Bowl title, surpassing Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith (24 years, 233 days old on the last day of his MVP 1993 season).
Mahomes is the third African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, joining Doug Williams (with Washington in Super Bowl XXII in 1988) and Russell Wilson (Seattle, Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014).
And it’s the first title for Andy Reid, 61, who up until Sunday night had been known as the best head coach to have never won a Super Bowl or NFL championship.
This was his second Super Bowl appearance in his 21-year head coaching career.
Now, with career win No. 222, Reid is a champion.
He broke the record for the most wins (including the playoffs) by a head coach before winning a Super Bowl or NFL championship, surpassing 2020 Pro Football Hall of Famer Bill Cowher’s 152 wins.
“I’m really excited,” Reid said. “You get one, you want to go get another one, but we got to backpedal for about a minute here and enjoy this one and we’ll get busy on the next one.”
Said Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt: “Nobody deserves this trophy more than Andy Reid.”
The loss ends what had been a successful turnaround for the 49ers, who became the third team to reach the Super Bowl after winning four games or less the previous season, joining the 1999 St. Louis Rams (4-12 in 1998) and the 1988 Cincinnati Bengals (4-11 in 1987).
In 2018, the 49ers limped to a 4-12 finish when quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo tore his ACL in the third game of the year.
“It’s tough,” Garoppolo said, having won two Super Bowls when he was Tom Brady’s backup for the Patriots, on Sunday’s loss. “I mean, I’ve never had this feeling before, so kind of an unreal feeling.”
Jennifer Lopez delivered an electric performance packed with pole dancing and raunchy outfits during the Super Bowl LIV half-time show.
The 50-year-old hit the stage immediately after Shakira, wowing audiences with a medley of her biggest hits including Jenny From The Block, Love Don’t Cost A Thing, and Waiting For Tonight.
Jennifer dazzled audiences with the pole dancing skills she had acquired from her Hustlers training, and even performed a mini duet with her 11-year-old daughter, Emme.
All eyes were on Jennifer Lopez during her daring dance routine at halftime of Super Bowl LIV.
Emme, whom J-Lo shares with her ex-husband and fellow singer Marc Anthony, gave her famous mother a run for her money as she belted out Let’s Get Loud.
Emme was part of a choir of identically dressed children but got to break away from them to get a big solo.
As J-Lo continued performing Let’s Get Loud, Emme switched into a rendition of the 1984 Bruce Springsteen song Born In The U.S.A.
‘Latinos!’ Jennifer shouted, spreading her Stars And Stripes cape to reveal that the inside was the Puerto Rican flag.
Both J-Lo and Marc were born in New York to Puerto Rican parents.